[GNC] noobie question about split transactions

[David H]

Hi Tim,

Welcome to Gnucash.

If you didn't receive an error message I suspect your transactions are
still there, perhaps in the auto created imbalance account which will be
right down the bottom of your accounts list on the accounts tab ?

Were you entering and searching from your credit card register ?  Have you
tried going to the accounts tab itself and doing a "Find" (Ctrl-F) from
there for a unique description in one of the txns - this searches all
registers NOT just the one you might have been in ?

I'm surprised you have 50-60 splits on a single txn up to about 10 I could
understand ? Each txn is a number of splits but that many is a bit over the
top :-)

Something that may save you a bot if angst is to export a good txn from the
Credit Card register as CSV then in a spreadsheet open the csv file and
duplicate the original exported txn updating the values appropriately and
then save as CSV and re-import to gnucash after saving a copy of your
file.  If you don't like what you see you can close gnucash without saving,
adjust the csv file and repeat.

Cheers David H.


On Sun, 19 Nov 2023 at 05:03, Tim via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
wrote:

> I am a long-term Quicken user who is trying to kick the habit and move to
> gnucash. I'm on Windows 11.
>
>
>
> I tried migrating my 10+ years of data. Thank you for the excellent
> migration tools. I was able to enter a few simple transactions but then
> when
> I came to entering a credit card payment, which I enter as a split
> transaction with line items for every line item in the credit card bill,
> after I had spent many laborious minutes entering 50 or 60 line items I
> accidentally hit enter and all of my work was deleted.
>
>
>
> That was incredibly disheartening. Is there any way that I can reconfigure
> the program so that when I make a mistake like that instead of deleting all
> of the work I've put in for the last half hour or more, I can see a warning
> or error dialog that will give me a chance to correct my error without
> having to reenter all of the data? I have been spoiled by Quicken being
> very
> tolerant of human error.
>
>
>
> I attempted to search the archive but wasn't able to find a search term
> that
> turned up an answer to my question. Please pardon me if this is already
> been
> asked and answered.
>
>
>
> And my thanks to all of the people who have obviously put great effort into
> developing and maintaining the software.
>
>
>
> Tim
>
>
>
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