[GNC] Recover my QIF MEMOs

[John Ralls]

> On Dec 4, 2025, at 08:40, GTI .H <gti9070h at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> In GnuCash version 5.9, I imported some OFX files using U+C, and U+C
> failed, overwriting my MEMOs in GnuCash that came from QIF.
> 
> I installed GnuCash version 5.13, and apparently U+C is working again.
> 
> I would like to recover and add my MEMOs from a QIF file that were in my
> GnuCash to the MEMOs in GnuCash that came from OFX.
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions?

U+C didn’t fail, that’s what it’s supposed to do: Update the existing transaction to match the imported data, see https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v5/C/gnucash-manual/trans-import.html#trans-import-matcher.

Your choices for undoing it are hand-edit each transaction to put it back the way it was or delete your file and rename a backup file from before that import and re-import, choosing C instead of U+C. If you’ve done other work since that backup you’ll have to redo it; you may be able to recover some of that by replaying transaction logs. If you use a SQL backend you’ll have to use your self-managed backups.

Regards,
John Ralls