Matching cross-account transfer transactions to each other

[Benjamin Melançon]

Hi all!

Here's my workflow, please tell me i'm missing a feature:

1. Manually export an OFX from my online banking checking account and
import it into GnuCash, it goes into the right account every time, great.
2. Manually export an OFX from my online banking savings account and import
it into GnuCash, it also goes into its correct account, great.
3. When i find a transfer from say, the savings account to the checking
account while in the checking account ("Deposit TRANSFER from Savings"),
it's always unbalanced and i replace the "Imbalance-USD" line with a
reference to the savings account.
4. Delete the now-duplicate counterpart unbalanced transaction, "Withdrawal
TRANSFER from Savings", in the savings account ledger.

Is there a way to match these transactions, instead of deleting one?

Something else i'm missing?

(It happens exactly the same, of course, if i start in the other account.)

Thanks!

ben

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