QIF importer in 2.6.3 making new accounts with duplicate names

[Derek Atkins]

Liz <edodd at billiau.net> writes:

>> I'm pretty sure nothing in this code has changed.  Just to be sure,
>> are you certain that you mapped the QIF Account to the proper GnuCash
>> account?  Or do you have:
>> 
>>   Assets:Foo:Joint   and
>>   Assets:Foo:Joint 2 ?
>> 
>> If the latter, what are the account types and currencies of the two
>> Joint accounts?
>
> Original
> Assets:Joint
> Cash
>
> After importer
> Assets:Joint
> Cash
> cash
> Joint
>
> I'm not sure at what stage this happened, and not sure how I
> contributed to it.

To me this implies that you didn't map the QIF Accounts to the existing
GnuCash accounts in the QIF Importer.  You need to tell the importer
that "Joint"(QIF) is "Assets:Joint"(GNC), and that "cash"(QIF) is
"Cash"(GNC).  Yes, capitalization matters.

> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.
> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.

-derek

-- 
       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
       URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
       warlord at MIT.EDU                        PGP key available