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

[Michel Albert]

Ah. Too bad. I was already afraid this might be the case :(

I'll give it a go manually then. It's not too big of a deal. With a little
bit of elbow-grease I'll fall back to my feet :)

Thanks anyway for considering.

On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 4:29 PM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Michel Albert <michel at albert.lu> writes:
>
> > 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 ;)
>
> Sorry, but no.  The only way to search for duplicates is manually.
>
> Just open up the account you imported into and manually go through;
> you'll see duplicates side-by-sude (unless, of course, you manually
> adjusted the dates after the fact).
>
> Or revert to a backup file.
>
> > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.
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>
> -derek
>
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