[GNC] How to re-import exported transactions?

[David Carlson]

Oops, I forgot to mention that for either source option all the csv columns
should automatically be matched, but in my case the date column is not
correctly choosing m-d-y for United States files.  I need to manually
correct the date format.

On Thu, Jan 30, 2025, 9:09 PM David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> When importing a csv file that was exported from GnuCash  it works a
> little different.   First, if it was exported from release 4.xx or earlier,
> select that option from the types.  For both types the account matching is
> done in an extra step before the transaction matching step.
>
> For me, in W10 GnuCash release 5.10 will import a file made with release
> 4.8.
>
> On Thu, Jan 30, 2025, 7:35 PM Jeroen Bruijning via gnucash-user <
> gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
>
>> I am trying to import CSV transactions that I have previously exported
>> from GnuCash. In the import dialog I have to match columns with field names
>> like Date, Description, Amount, etc. I have done this before with CSV files
>> from another source, and that worked fine.
>>
>> In this case, matching is a puzzle to me. Not clear what all columns mean
>> and how they are supposed to be matched - column names do not always match
>> the names in the drop down box where I am supposed to define the mapping.
>>
>> But one choice I seem to have, is to load settings called “GnuCash Export
>> Format” (I am using 5.10). It seems to me that this should do the required
>> matching automatically. But nothing seems to happen.
>>
>> Am I mistaken and is Gnucash Export Format for another purpose? Or else,
>> what can I do to make it work?
>>
>> Thanks!
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