[GNC] Import qif does not remember account allocation.

[Adrien Monteleone]

DaveW,

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> On Dec 31, 2018, at 12:23 AM, DaveW <wasserland44 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> David C
> 
> I apologise for the duplicated messages.  (I was troubled by the
> fact that I saw no evidence in the List that my message was
> properly sent.  Even now, I don't seem to be receiving my gnu-cash
> user copies from the List?  Be that as it may, I regret the nuisance
> value of my emailing dilemma.)
> 
> Thank you very much for the very helpful comments you provided.  I now
> understand it is imperative to make/correct the account assignment
> during the wizard process.  (As an aside, that the wizard doesn't show
> the $ amount on the  appropriate page, often makes it difficult to
> recall where the transaction belongs.  Just by way of comment.)
> 
> All of that said, it seems that I should await, or install, version 3.x
> 
> Thank you again Dave and a Happy New Year to you and this user group.
> It is an excellent facility.
> 
> Dave W
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, 30 Dec 2018 02:56:05 -0600
> David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Dave W,
>> 
>> Once is enough with the duplicated messages.  The previous responses
>> by John and Derek seemed to cover your concerns but since you are
>> asking for elaboration, I as an experienced user can answer your
>> questions #1 & #2. The QIF Import wizard in the GnuCash Releases
>> 2.6.21 and earlier assign the unspecified account when there is not
>> enough history detected by the Bayesian matcher to assign an existing
>> account to a transaction.  The user must monitor the import and
>> correct those transactions during the import process as well as
>> catching and correcting any other assignment errors arising from
>> similar transactions in the history before accepting the assignments
>> in the import.  Since each financial institution structures their
>> descriptions somewhat differently, it sometimes takes much more
>> history to get better accuracy with the matching.  Even after many
>> years using the OFX importer, I still get frequent mis-assignments
>> between gasoline purchases and restaurant purchases in one of my bank
>> accounts.  In my experience, the OFX import wizard historically has
>> given me better results than the QIF importer, and I have few
>> accounts that do not offer OFX format.
>> 
>> To make things more interesting, the 3.x release series has the
>> importers re-configured to work differently so that it is, as a
>> practical matter, necessary to start over with matching once you have
>> migrated to that release series.  The bright side of that change is
>> that it should work better fairly quickly, and best of all, it will
>> be easier to purge out bad history when needed.
>> 
>> I cannot answer your questions #3 and #4.
>> 
>> David C
>> 
>> On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 11:29 PM DaveW <wasserland44 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Mon, 03 Dec 2018 19:13:53 -0500
>>> Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.fremont.ca.us> writes:
>>>> 
>>>>>> On Dec 3, 2018, at 6:06 AM, David wasserman
>>>>>> <wasserland44 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Running Ubuntu 18.04.  GNC version 2.6.19.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Whereas GNC remembers previous account allocation on my
>>>>>> Mastercard. Importing from my recently new AMEX credit card,
>>>>>> the system doesn't remember the account allocation even for
>>>>>> exactly the same transaction multiple times previously booked.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> How to fix, please?  
>>>>> 
>>>>> Keep importing. It takes several runs of the importer to build
>>>>> up enough matching data to generate matches, and it’s runs of
>>>>> the matcher that matter, not the number of transactions in an
>>>>> import.  
>>>> 
>>>> Keep in mind that the QIF importer matches on FULL LINES.  If
>>>> there is even a single character different in the Payee or Memo
>>>> then the QIF importer will consider it different.
>>>> 
>>>>> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.
>>>>> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.  
>>>> 
>>>> -derek  
>>> 
>>> Ongoing . . . . .
>>> 
>>> I have now been through 8 monthly iterations of my newer Amex qif
>>> importations.  Still no auto account allocation generation as
>>> suggested will eventually occur. (Yet my long-term Mastercard
>>> account .qif downloads continue to import and allocate correctly.)
>>> 
>>> In my frenetic searching, I find this
>>> file: /.gnucash/qif-accounts-map. It seems to be the memory source
>>> of previous transaction.  It's a long file that obviously has
>>> followed me over the years.  In it I recognise that, typically, the
>>> Mastercard allocations Line Description has the correct account
>>> allocation recorded.
>>> 
>>> So I searched a recent Amex transaction that has twice previously
>>> been manually corrected from "Unspecified" to it's correct Expense
>>> account yet this is what is recorded inter alia:
>>> ("ROMEO S FOODHALL SUTHER SUTHERLAND" "ROMEO S FOODHALL SUTHER
>>> SUTHERLAND" (9 8 0 3 4 2 11 12 5 6) #f "Unspecified" #f #t).
>>> 
>>> Sorry about the long preamble. ):
>>> 
>>> *1. Once designated "Unspecified" how/when, and by what means, does
>>> the correct allocation be recorded?
>>> *2. Is there a difference between manual correction while in QIF
>>> Download mode and after Import has been completed?
>>> *3. What do the numerals and #'s mean?
>>> *4. Shall I upload the said qif-accounts-map file for you?
>>> 
>>> Dave W
>>> 
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