OFX Viewer?

[Mike Alexander]

--On February 7, 2015 at 6:16:42 PM -0800 Greg Feneis 
<mfeneis at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.

I think the OFX importer adds a note starting with "OFX" to each 
imported transaction, at least it seems to.  That means you can find 
imported transactions by searching for a note starting with OFX.  This 
with a date range should help you find where GnuCash put those 
transactions.

                Mike