Dealing with a large QIF file

[Derek Atkins]

Liz <edodd at billiau.net> writes:

> On Mon, 25 Dec 2017 00:46:30 +0000
> "cliffhanger at gardener.com" <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
>
> Everything in Gnucash must reference (at least) one other account. You
> would be well advised to follow Lincoln's advice to make a single
> account to put the other half of these transactions.

Or...  After you perform the import, re-hide the accounts.

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-derek

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