[GNC] Having trouble trying to use Gnucash instead of Aplos

[Daniel Wieberdink]

I was hoping to transition to Gnucash to track finances for the small
church we belong to. I started by optimistically trying to import about 3
years worth of transactions from Aplos into GC via a CSV file. That didn't
go as smoothly as I hoped. Most of the transactions ended up in the
"Imbalance-USD" account/category. It seems I have to go thru and
manually fix each transaction. I'm reluctant because I'm not even sure I'm
doing it correctly. So I would like to start over, except I have all the
accounts set up correctly (I think) so I would like to save those.

I expected I would be able to hold down the shift key, scroll down the
transaction list to select a big chunk to delete and then hit the delete
key. But this doesn't work. And I couldn't find any other way to delete the
mess I made without deleting them all one at a time.

So then I noticed an account called "Imbalance-USD" so I thought "I will
try just deleting that." But even that didn't work. I selected the account,
pressed the delete key, responded to a couple warning windows by pressing
the delete button in the messages. The screen flashed a little like it was
doing it, but it's still there. I tried multiple times with the same result.

I'm very close to giving up on this. I'm can't see spending much more time
on it if it doesn't work any better than this. Is there something
fundamental I'm doing wrong? The program looks so promising but I just
can't get anything to work the way I expect.

I would be grateful for any help you can give. Thanks.

Dan W.