[GNC] Recover my QIF MEMOs

[Sherlock]

Hi GTI,

Responses embedded below for context.

Regards,

Sherlock

On 12/4/25 2:00 PM, GTI .H wrote:
> 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.

This implies you had the Append box checked.

> 
> 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.

Option C does not update the matched transaction.

> 
> 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?

GnuCash doesn't prevent us from re-importing an OFX file.  The issue is 
each transaction previously imported has unique identifier (FITID) 
provided by the OFX file.  If a transaction in the register has a 
matching identifier, the transaction being imported is assumed to have 
been previously imported.  Note:  Transactions in the register with an 
FITID are not eligible to be matched again.

If you want to imported a transaction again from an OFX file, you can 
either import the transaction into a register that doesn't include a 
FITID matching transaction or modify the FITID of the transaction in the 
OFX file.

An approach we use is to duplicate the "mismatched" transaction 
(Transaction > Transaction Duplicate) and then delete the original 
transaction (Transaction > Transaction Delete).  The duplicated 
transaction will not have the FITID until it is matched.

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