[GNC] Placeholder account

[Fred Tydeman]

On Wed, May 27, 2026 at 8:14 PM Adam H. Kerman <ahk at chinet.com> wrote:

> 10:47pm -0000 05/26/26 Fred Tydeman <tydeman.fred at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >I believe that Import QIF will put transactions into a Placeholder
> account.
>
> What is the context for this remark?
>

Someone recently said that transactions cannot be in a Placeholder account.
I have had it happen to me doing an Import of a QIF file.


> Is there no way to modify the Chart of Accounts prior to output so it
> matched the COA of the file receiving the input? Surely one would need to
> do
> that.


The old Quicken file COA cannot match the GnuCash COA.
I need to edit where GnuCash is putting the transactions during the Import
process.
(but do not always notice which ones need to be edited).