Account associations with Description are not "remembered"

[Brooks Bridges]

Derek, you nailed my problem - for some reason I didn't even notice the
intermediate window - so anxious to see results - damn cracks in sidewalk.
I tried a test case just now changing in that window and all works.
Thanks .

On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 11:41 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:

> Hi Brooks,
>
> Brooks Bridges <bridges.brooks at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Hello David,
> >
> > Appreciate reply but I'm still missing something.
> >
> > I checked preferences and do have Bayesian matching checked. My
> > understanding is this is for unknown transactions - it attempts to
> > recognize a grocery store for instance.
> > In my case I deliberately imported a one-month earlier set of data, went
> > in, matched a bunch of things to accounts, saved. Then I attached a set
> of
> > later data. All were assigned "Imbalance-USD", even when there was an
> exact
> > match to an earlier transaction.
> > I just tried hand entering one previously matched - it recognized the
> > description and completed it but nothing appeared in Transfer column.
>
> Just to confirm... You're making these assignments *IN the Import
> Window* and not after-the-fact, right?  Once you finish the import,
> that's it.  If you've assigned accounts *during the import* then gnucash
> should remember it.  HOWEVER once you finish it, if you've left
> something in Imbalance and then change it from the register, GnuCash
> WILL NOT learn that change.
>
> > I sometimes leap small buildings with a running start but other times
> > stumble over cracks in sidewalk.
>
> Don't we all?  Especially if it's a wide, crooked crack :)
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> > Brooks
>
> > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.
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>
> -derek
>
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