[GNC] Recover my QIF MEMOs

[Kalpesh Patel]

Oh my, this is way over described!

"If it didn't fail, something that changed the behavior of my U+C happened." -- that happened because you somehow UNTICKED in front of the "Append" near bottom of the dialog box in the match transaction window (same place where you have option for A, U+C or C) while selecting 'U+C' for it. A check mark in front of that "Append" allows appending of the imported "Description" to the existing data in the "Description" field with a vertical bar as the separator between two; not sure if that behavior follows "memo" field or not -- I've never used "memo" field.

-----Original Message-----
From: GTI .H <gti9070h at gmail.com> 
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2025 5:01 PM
To: John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>
Cc: gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Subject: Re: [GNC] Recover my QIF MEMOs

Thank you for your reply!

Now I'm a little confused.

I don't use SQL.

If it didn't fail, something that changed the behavior of my U+C happened.

Whenever I did my imports, I imported the QIF, then imported the OFX, chose
U+C, and my MEMOs were in QIFMEMO|OFXMEMO format, preserving both
information, and this behavior returned, tested a bit in v5.12 and v5.13.

As far as I remember, option C leaves me with only one of the MEMOs, the QIFMEMO or the OFXMEMO, I don't remember exactly which one.

I need to continue my update process and observe the behavior of OFX A,
U+C, and C more closely to come back here with more certainty.

Please, while I'm at it, how can I force the re-import of an OFX file that has already been imported?

I've already tried renaming it, changing fields inside it, and I still haven't been able to re-import the OFX.

Em qui., 4 de dez. de 2025 às 14:24, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>
escreveu:

>
>
> 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#tra
> ns-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
>
>

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Regards
GTI