Best way to to bulk import

[Derek Atkins]

Ben Pracht <ben.pracht at gmail.com> writes:

> My hard drive crashed and I had to rekey transactions from bank
> statements.  My bank only supplies the last 18 months of statements so
> they had to be rekeyed.  
>
> For speed purposes, I thought it would be easier to enter it into a
> spreadsheet so I can select the appropriate accounts to debit and
> credit.  I was going to try to create my own GnuCash log file, but when
> I saw all the GUID's I was going to need to look up it seems
> overwhelming.  
>
> The data is coming from 3 bank accounts.  Would it be easier to split
> the data into 3 csv files and import them that way?

IMHO the best way to do it would be to generate QIF files and then use
the QIF Importer.

Sorry you lost your data.  This is what backups are for  :)

> Thanks,
> Ben 

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-derek
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