importing

[Frankie Raney]

You are right as to what is being done.... When I import, it sees the
duplicates, but there are hundreds....it would take forever to Mark
them....I do not know how to export just one account at a time....I could
try to figure it out and try that way I guess.

On Oct 6, 2017 8:34 PM, "D" <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Frank,
>
> Like the other David, on the other thread, it has been a while since I
> imported from Quicken. When I did, I was able to bring in everything in one
> huge pass. Gnucash properly created the many accounts and captured most of
> the transfers as well.
>
> Are you exporting each account from Quicken separately? It sounds as if
> you are getting both sides of your transactions, i.e., the transfer
> payment from checking to your credit card is being processed once for the
> checking and once for the credit card. If this is what is happening for
> you, then there are two solutions: either match the second version to the
> first during the import process, or don't import the second transaction.
>
> I seem to recall that I didn't have to do much manual massage to my large
> quicken file when I imported way back when, so I believe that exporting the
> whole file (accounts, categories and transactions for it all) will catch
> those duplications. But I've been known to be wrong before.
>
> David T.
>
> On October 7, 2017, at 6:24 AM, frank raney <frankraney130 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> >I thought I had the importing figured out, but no...............
> >I exported my quicken data to qif format.  When I import it into GC I get
> a lot of double entries.  Quicken uses catagories, GC uses accounts... How
> do I import my cash accounts without getting all the duplicates.
> >My checking account imports as do all my categories to the same accounts
> in GC.  I am given a list of possible duplicates, but it will take days to
> go through this.  Isn't there a way import without sorting through the
> list?  If I do not go through the list (just import everything as is, I end
> up with every account with double entries, double money.
> >I am trying to get away from quicken because of all the troubles they are
> having, but now I wonder if it is worth it.  I am always for programs like
> GC, but sometimes they are very cumbersome, like this appears to be.  What
> am I missing?
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