Merging Files or Other Method getting Transactions into main File.

[Mike Stillingfleet]

Thanks Geert,  yes I have previously had a go at that other forum no response.  

I have this morning created reports from the corrected XML file. 

I am starting to input manually.  It may take a week or so to re-input the data but carrying on with the current effort is completely pointless. 

I do think that the GNU cash Web site should take down any link to the App and further issue a massive health warning about the App.

Having said that.  Since upgrading I gave scheduled a daily QIF download from the App.

GNU Cash so far appears to be able to handle these tiny QIF files. But I would urge users not to enter a volume of data on the App. It is a disastrous waste of time.





On Tue, Jan 30, 2018, at 8:22 AM, Geert Janssens wrote:
> Op dinsdag 30 januari 2018 07:59:01 CET schreef john_mike:
> > Confused!
> > 
> > Back ground : Trying to get damaged transactions from phone to main file.
> > Transactions entered whilst phone app had some sort of double minus problem.
> > 
> > 
> > What I have done:
> > 
> > The only way to repair the transactions was to export as an XML file. Open
> > that XML in GNUCash. Go through line by line and enter amounts.
> > 
> > Now I want these transactions to be imported into my main file.
> > 
> > 
> > I have attempted to export these corrected transactions to a QIF File. But
> > this option does not seem to exist. So have followed the export to CSV file.
> > 
> > Now when attempting to import these CSV files to my main file. It fails.
> > 
> I'm sorry you have such trouble trying to interchange data between these two 
> applications.
> 
> But you really should ask help on the Gnucash for Android forum, which is not 
> here. The issue starts there in this particular case, and there nothing 
> gnucash on desktop can do about this I'm afraid.
> 
> CSV import in gnucash 2.6 and before has a very limited scope: it was written 
> solely for importing bank statements and the options to tweak it show this. 
> GnuCash data (like exported from gnucash to CSV) on the other hand has much 
> more detail and the importer has no knowledge of how to interpret this. So in 
> 2.6, a CSV export/import cycle won't work. The upcoming 3.0 will allow this, 
> but for your specific problem it will come a few months too late probably.
> 
> Good luck solving your issue!
> 
> Geert
> 
> 


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