OFX Viewer?

[David Carlson]

On 2/7/2015 8:16 PM, Greg Feneis wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm using GnuCash 2.6.3 on a Win7 64.
>
> I've been importing transactions from my bank's downloaded OFX files one
> month at a time.  After I import, I go through the records and assign the
> right accounts, etc.  It's been going very well until I got to December
> 2014.  The GnuCash import dialog showed 6 transactions to be imported, so I
> clicked OK and now I can't find the transactions in GnuCash.  If I open the
> OFX file again, the import dialog doesn't show any transactions because
> they've all been imported.
>
> Does GnuCash have a way to let me view the content of an OFX file?  Or,
> maybe someone can suggest an OFX viewer?  I figure if I can view the list
> of transactions, I can get a better idea of where to find them in the
> ledger.
>
> ​It doesn't seem like a good feature that GnuCash prevents the user from
> seeing the content of a file if it's already been imported.  I mean, I get
> it, but there must be a better way to handle already-imported-transactions
> than to simply not show them, eh?​
>
> Perhaps they could appear in the import dialog with all of the text
> stippled out or some such.  I.e. We're here, but you can't do anything with
> us because you've already imported us.
>
>
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Greg
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OFX files are text files that can be viewed with any text editor. 
GnuCash does not hide them, but it does not have a viewer either.  You
are correct that it has logic to prevent importing transactions more
than once, but that is not intentionally hiding them, although it can
make it difficult to see whether it is working correctly. 
There is a specification for OFX files that you can find by Googling
OFX, which would help you to interpret the contents of an OFX file.
I hopes that helps.

David C