Dealing with a large QIF file

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Gnucash creates the accounts because you and the transactions used those accounts. Personally, I prefer having all that "clutter," since it represents what happened. Accounting is supposed to track what happened, after all.

Two points: first, you can hide accounts in the Chart of Accounts, which would allow these accounts to exist without disturbing your daily accounting work. Second, you can delete accounts, if that really is your goal; when you delete an account with transactions in it, you get a chance to move them all to an account of your choosing. (I propose that this would be easier than editing the QIF, as another suggests).

Personally, I'd keep the transactions and hide the accounts.

David

On December 25, 2017, at 5:47 AM, cliffhanger at gardener.com wrote:

   Thanks. Yes one can import one at a time but this cheque ac from
   Quicken is huge and has references to other card accounts as categories
   within it. These accounts don't exist anymore and gnucash is trying to
   create them as part of the import. This is something I'd like to avoid.
   Hope this makes sense. Cliff

   -------- Original Message --------
   Subject: Re: Dealing with a large QIF file
   From: Colin Law
   To: Cliff McDiarmid
   CC: gnucash-user at gnucash.org

     You should be able to export one account at a time from Quicken, I
     think. Then import them one at a time.
     Colin
     On 24 December 2017 at 19:02, Cliff McDiarmid wrote:
     > Hi
     >
     > I'm importing a large QIF file(a current a/c)about 6000 entries.
     > There are about a dozen other a/c's from Quicken, now closed,
     > associated with this large file. When importing, Gnucash seems to
     > want to create these defunct a/c's to 'balance the books'. I
     assume
     > there isn't any way of avoiding this. The whole thing looks like
     it
     > will be horrendous. I've imported some small credit card a/c's
     already
     > with success, but they were not any of these other closed
     accounts.
     >
     > Any advice please.
     > thanks
     >
     > Cliff
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