[GNC] Recover my QIF MEMOs

[Kalpesh Patel]

Swap the order of import in that case... import QIF files first, and then OFX file.

My curiosity is getting better of me: are you downloading two different for same set of transactions from same financial institution? If yes, then why?

-----Original Message-----
From: GTI .H <gti9070h at gmail.com> 
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2025 9:02 PM
To: Kalpesh Patel <kalpesh.patel at usa.net>
Cc: John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>; gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Subject: Re: [GNC] Recover my QIF MEMOs

The Generic Transaction Import Matcher Window doesn't appear for me in a QIF import, only in an OFX import, so I don't have the Append Checkbox.

https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v5/C/gnucash-manual/trans-import.html#trans-import-matcher:~:text=possible%20match%20otherwise%3B-,Append,-%3A%20Checkbox%20to%20indicate

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Em qui., 4 de dez. de 2025 às 22:19, Kalpesh Patel <kalpesh.patel at usa.net>
escreveu:

> Your best course is to then just simply reimport those QIF files while 
> making sure that “Append” it ticked and you should be good to go. The 
> order in which appears before and after the separator might change 
> but, nonetheless, both text will be there. Only way I know of way to 
> reimport OFX transactions is to first delete them and then import them in.
>
>
>
> *From:* GTI .H <gti9070h at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Thursday, December 04, 2025 8:06 PM
> *To:* Kalpesh Patel <kalpesh.patel at usa.net>
> *Cc:* John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>; gnucash-user < 
> gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [GNC] Recover my QIF MEMOs
>
>
>
> Hi Kalpesh,
>
>
>
> Thanks for the reply!
>
>
>
> I don't see anything way over described.
>
> Congratulations!
>
> You managed to identify and explain what changed the behavior of my 
> import with U+C.
>
> And... as always, John Ralls is right, it wasn't a U+C fail. :)
>
> But I still want to recover my QIF Descriptions/MEMOs.
>
> --
> Regards
> GTI
>
>
>
> Em qui., 4 de dez. de 2025 às 19:55, Kalpesh Patel 
> <kalpesh.patel at usa.net>
> escreveu:
>
> 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 
> > U+existing
> > transaction to match the imported data, see 
> > https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v5/C/gnucash-manual/trans-import.html#t
> > ra
> > 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
> >
> >
>
> --
> Regards
> GTI
>
>
>
>
> --
>
> Regards
>
> GTI
>


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