Export & import within GnuCash

[bunk3m]

Hi.

I've been reading the docs and making some tests but am unable to get my 
transactions out of GnuCash (2.6.5 Mac) and back into a clean account 
structure.  I am using the xml data format.

There was a short discussion in the mailing list in late 2014 
Export/Import Transactions where the person wanted to do the same thing 
but appears to have failed too.  There was no solution.

I have some problems with currency transactions that I have never been 
able to fix.  So I wanted to start with a clean balance sheet for the 
year (year end 2013).  I have many transactions that I don't want to try 
to manually recreate so I thought I could export from Jan. 1 2014 to 
present and import those into a clean file.

I exported the account structure and created a new GnuCash file with 
that account structure.  So far so good.  I manually created the account 
balances so my balance sheet is correct.

Then I attempted to export the transactions from Jan. 1, 2014 to present 
from the old file and then import those transactions into the clean 
account structure.  This is where the problems started.

I am able to export, I think, but the import of csv fails.  I used the 
"|" (pipe) command as the separator initially but found the import won't 
allow "custom" separator.

So I tried to export with the comma separator as that looks to be the 
default.  I also selected "quotes".

It created a file that I then attempted to import.  However there are 
many more exported columns than available import columns so it looks 
like I will lose some info.

Understanding that I will likely have to fix some transactions, I tried 
to import what I had but that fails also.

Is it not possible to export and import transactions from GnuCash?

If yes, then am I going about this wrong?  How should I be doing this?

I'm on digest mode so would appreciate if you could cc me directly in 
addition to responding to the list.

Thank you in advance.