[GNC] Recover my QIF MEMOs

[GTI .H]

Hi Sherlock,

Thanks for the reply!

Em qui., 4 de dez. de 2025 às 21:18, Sherlock <sh025622 at gmail.com> escreveu:

> 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.
>

Right.


>
> >
> > 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.
>

Yes.


>
> >
> > 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.
>

Excellent knowledge transferred and absorbed with pleasure. I appreciate
the freedoms. These are going into my files.
I tested it and it worked like a charm.
Thanks!


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


Now I can re-import an OFX file!


>
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GTI