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

David Carlson david.carlson.417 at gmail.com
Sun Aug 1 07:19:12 EDT 2021


You will also note that bug report is dated in 2003, the concern was raised
then with the hint that it was inherent in the OFX specification and
therefore probably difficult or impossible to fix.

The most recent changes to the generic import assistant allows re-ordering
the entries into chronological order which will put the duplicate d
transactions close to each other on the screen,  making them very easy to
spot and manually pick one or the other to keep.

I think there is no need to automatically skip one or the other unless the
split notes are merged as I suggested in my previous email.

If you really want to get fancy, highlight the duplicate s and offer to
skip one or the other.



On Sun, Aug 1, 2021, 3:12 AM Chris Good <goodchris96 at gmail.com> wrote:

> When I went to create a bug for this I found one already exists:
>
> https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105334
>  Import multiple account OFX files with transfers between the accounts,
> duplicate transactions are generated
>
> Regards,
> Chris Good
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Good <goodchris96 at gmail.com>
> Sent: Sunday, 1 August 2021 5:49 PM
> To: 'Kalpesh Patel' <kalpesh.patel at usa.net>
> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Subject: RE: Transactions for multiple accounts in 1 ofx file?
>
> 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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