[GNC] QIF Import Problem

[Christopher Lam]

For completion, Colin sent me 2 QIF files from 2 different bank accounts.
Some lines indicated transfer from 1st QIF acct to 2nd QIF acct.

The solution is tedious. Importing QIF acct will require careful mapping of
QIF account/category, and when importing the 2nd QIF account, the importer
*will* *(very slowly)* attempt to find duplicates if the account names are
correctly chosen, and allow you to correctly match transfers. Matched
transfers are skipped thereby avoiding duplicates.

The good news is the QIF account/category -> GnuCash account mapping is
saved between imports.

Thus it'sa good idea to import accounts in short date periods; the mapping
will thus be preserved inbetween.

The next release *will* feature a much faster duplicate finder.

On Sun, 4 Aug 2019 at 19:52, Colin McLellan <colin.mclellan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to switch to GnuCash from Quicken 2016 and I'm running into a
> problem where all transfers between accounts are duplicated after the QUF
> import.  I am aware that this is not a new problem and I have read meany
> threads on here going back at least ten years about this.
>
> I tried exporting just one month of my chequing and savings accounts to
> separate QIF files and then importing them into GnuCash simultaneously and
> separately.  In each case, 100% of the time all transfers between the
> accounts are duplicated in each account.  Whatever is supposed to be
> flagging these duplicates is not working.  If I do them separately, I do
> get the option to select the duplicates, but ultimately I want to import
> the past 15 years of transaction level detail, and I am not willing to go
> the manual route.
>
> My question is: Is there any new information about a solution to this
> problem?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Colin
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