Copying many transactions

[azalea4va]

I have ported over years of data from Quicken to gnucash.  But there are
transition issues.  One is I have a brokerage account that now shows many
entries for dividend payments. So I have 100's of transactions with a
transfer from account B to A where A is the transaction account and B is the
mutual fund account that is receiving the dividend.  What I want is a
matching transaction from an Income account to the brokerage account.  So if
a dividend of $20 is paid, there is a $20 transaction from C to B
(InComeDividend -> Brokerage) and another $20 transaction from B to A.  I
have the latter, the former is what I need to create.

I tried exporting all the B->A transaction to a CSV file, then re-importing
them it the income file (where I would either change the destination from A
to B in gnucash or in the CSV file before importing). I cannot get that to
work.  Anytime I try to import a CSV file that gnucash exports, it does not
work.  It seems the CSV file gnucash exports is not compatible with being
imported back into gnucash. Am I doing something wrong or is this a weird
incosistency in how gnucash deals with imports/exports?

Any other ideas on how to copy a large number of transactions efficently?  



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