[GNC] No longer able to import OFX

[john]

> On Sep 24, 2023, at 07:15, Mike St. Germaine <mstgermaine at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> At some point earlier in the year I started receiving the attached
> message when attempting to import an OFX from Citizens bank (the
> message is "found 1 previously imported transactions, no new
> transactions" -- the number always matches the number of transactions
> i'm trying to import). These are transactions that have definitely not
> been imported before. I've been manually entering all transactions for
> a while now and that's getting pretty old.
> This change seemed to coincide with a major change the bank made to
> their website though that could very well be a coincidence.
> If I create a new Gnucash file and import the OFX, it works just fine.
> It just won't allow me to import to the file I've been using for the
> past year or so. Also worth mentioning I'm still able to import OFX
> files from other banks with no issue.
> I deleted the account assignment through the import map editor but
> that didn't work either. It did ask for a new account assignment when
> importing but then I just received the same message described above.

This problem is usually because your bank is reusing FITID values. Those are supposed to be unique to enable software reading the OFX to identify duplicate transactions.

Regards,
John Ralls