I accidentally imported a QIF twice and noticed too late. What can I do?

[David Carlson]

On 1/20/2016 3:43 PM, Michel Albert wrote:
> I imported a file, but the importer did not gave me enough information to
> properly assign the accounts. So I manually made these changes *after* the
> import finished. I believe all these manual changes have triggered so many
> backup files that they rolled over.
>
> After my fixes, I realised I imported the same file twice.
>
> Now I have a /huge/ number of duplicates.
>
> Is there any way to search for duplicates? They all are in the same
> account, with the same date and same amount. I might be able to scratch out
> a backup from somewhere, but that might be *old*. So I'd prefer to use a
> more "automatic" procedure if somehow possible ;)
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Michel,

The easiest thing I can think of is to print a transaction report from 
the bank or credit card company with running balances which is usually 
easy to do on the website, then get a pen or magic marker and check off 
lines as the running balances match.  I do it that way frequently when 
looking for transactions that I might have missed or intentionally 
doubled to get descriptions from both sides.

David C