[GNC] Transactions for multiple accounts in 1 ofx file?

[Chris Good]

Hi Kalpesh Patel,

Your hiccup sounds exactly like the problem I have described.
2 people have now said they have transactions from multiple bank accounts in
the 1 .ofx file,
so there are probably many more who do not subscribe to this email list and
who also may come across this problem. I will raise a bug to document it.
If Covid-19 lockdown continues for much longer I may have enough time to try
to fix this myself.

Regards,
Chris Good

-----Original Message-----
From: Kalpesh Patel <kalpesh.patel at usa.net> 
Sent: Sunday, 1 August 2021 5:05 AM
To: goodchris96 at gmail.com
Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: Transactions for multiple accounts in 1 ofx file?

I use it in this manner all the time and works great.

I use an old program called pocketsense, which I modified a bit, which goes
out to multiple institutions, downloads from each in ofx format and then
combines them into single ofx file to import it into gnucash. Literally
speaking they all are concatenation of individual files into one. It has
been working fine since version 3.5 (or earlier I think).

Only hickup that I see now and then is If transaction are across two
accounts (example a transfer) in ofx then gnucash doesn't cross correlate
them but if that happens then I disable import for the "seconds" account,
finish first import and then perform second import of the same file and then
it cross correlates automatically. Nice thing with ofx import in gnucash is
that you can import same file multiple times but not get duplicated entries
for the same transaction.

I have tested combined ofx file that has investment account, banking account
and a credit card account and if anything it is one of the robust feature of
gnucash, IMHO.

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