Importing Exported Data into Gnu Cash

[John Ralls]

> On Sep 29, 2015, at 3:47 PM, Stuart Espie <lbbcfinance at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> Hello 
> 
> I had a copy of GNU Cash on my laptop but had to restore it to factory settings before I did this I exported the account tree, the transactions and the accounts. When I try to reimport them I keep getting errors regarding the format of the data, I really need to import the exported information into the reloaded GNU cash otherwise I will need to go through every transaction in the exported CSV file and put them back in manually, a task that I would not relish
> 
> Any help would be appreciated
> 

Unfortunately GnuCash can’t read its own CSV export without editing it. Andy Lavarre figured out how to do this and posted a procedure at http://genietvanhetleven.blogspot.com/2014/10/importing-csv-into-gnucash.html.

Next time just copy the GnuCash xml file to a different computer, or better yet, routinely back it up to an offsite storage service like Dropbox.

Regards,
John Ralls