[GNC] Import PayPal transactions into GC

David Carlson david.carlson.417 at gmail.com
Wed Nov 25 19:33:26 EST 2020


Jeff,

I am sure the CSV import settings are unique to your GnuCash data file and
your PayPal account.   You only have to do the setup once per account,  not
every time like before.

On Wed, Nov 25, 2020, 4:35 PM Jeff Albrecht <jeffa at rodaw.com> wrote:

> On 11/25/2020 3:15 PM, David Carlson wrote:
> > Jeff, Peter, et alia,
> >
> > I have tried CSV in release 3.8 and found it to be vastly improved now
> > that it is possible to save the settings for each account.  I suggest
> > giving it another try.
>
> Thanks. Perhaps I'll give CSV import a try again. I wonder if those
> saved settings could be exported and shared with others? Would the
> PayPal .CSV import settings be the same for anyone? That would be pretty
> cool if the .CSV settings were available for download and maintained if
> PayPal made a breaking change.
>
>   - Jeff
>
>
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 4:00 PM Jeff Albrecht <jeffa at rodaw.com
> > <mailto:jeffa at rodaw.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     For me...
> >
> >     CSV is death by a thousand cuts.
> >     Aqbanking worked consistently once I got it configured. (Only
> >     about 175
> >     cuts) Unfortunately the development of Aqbanking got out of sync with
> >     GNUCash a while back. I think it's been corrected. As I used
> >     Windows 10
> >     I'm anxious for the next release to see if all the integration
> >     wizarding
> >     is back with the TLC necessary with current 4.x versions.
> >
> >       - Jeff
> >
> >     On 11/25/2020 2:22 PM, Peter Dutton wrote:
> >     >     Fixed, sort of.
> >     >     Now have Aqbanking at least starting in GC.  However, since
> >     it's not
> >     >     too easy to set up and probably have to spend the rest of my
> >     life
> >     >     figuring out all of the intricacies to use it....I quit.
> >     >     Thank you, all, for the help.
> >     >     Peter
> >     >  __________________________________________________________________
> >     >
> >     >     From: Frank H. Ellenberger
> >     [[1]mailto:frank.h.ellenberger at gmail.com
> >     <mailto:frank.h.ellenberger at gmail.com>]
> >     >     Subject: [GNC] Import PayPal transactions into GC
> >     >     Date: Wednesday, November 25, 2020, 3:26 PM
> >     >     To: Peter Dutton
> >     >     Cc: Gnucash Users
> >     >
> >     > Am 25.11.20 um 19:38 schrieb Peter Dutton:
> >     >
> >     > I'm running Ubuntu18.04 Mate
> >     >
> >     > Is aqbanking >=  5.7.8.0stable installed?
> >     >
> >     >
> >     > Peter...
> >     >
> >
>  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >     > *From:* Frank H. Ellenberger
> >     [[2]mailto:frank.h.ellenberger at gmail.com
> >     <mailto:frank.h.ellenberger at gmail.com>]
> >     > *Subject:* [GNC] Import PayPal transactions into GC
> >     > *Date:* Wednesday, November 25, 2020, 12:44 PM
> >     > *To:* Peter Dutton
> >     > *Cc:* Gnucash Users
> >     >
> >     >
> >     > You didn't tell us your OS/distribution. If you are on Linux
> >     > [3]https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Flatpak
> >     <https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Flatpak> would be one possibility
> >     to get a
> >     > recent Gnucash and Aqbanking.
> >     >
> >     > Am 25.11.20 um 18:14 schrieb Peter Dutton:
> >     >
> >     > The online banking tool wizard in my version of GC v 3.11
> >     doesn't do anything
> >     > when I click the "start Aqbanking wizard".
> >     >
> >     > Is something of interest in
> >     yourhttps://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Tracefile
> >     <http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Tracefile>?
> >     >
> >     >
> >     > No idea how to translate the German into English.
> >     >
> >     > Until somebody has the time to translate it, copy the content into
> >     > [4]https://translate.google.com <https://translate.google.com>
> >     >
> >     >
> >     > Sorry,
> >     >
> >     > Peter
> >     >
> >     > N.P.
> >     > Frank
> >     >
> >     > References
> >     >
> >     >     1. mailto:frank.h.ellenberger at gmail.com
> >     <mailto:frank.h.ellenberger at gmail.com>
> >     >     2. mailto:frank.h.ellenberger at gmail.com
> >     <mailto:frank.h.ellenberger at gmail.com>
> >     >     3. https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Flatpak
> >     <https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Flatpak>
> >     >     4. https://translate.google.com/ <
> https://translate.google.com/>
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