(revised message -- yesterday's version bounced)
Well, I got gnucash 3.6.2 running on SuSE Linux 6.3.
When I import my entire financial state from a set of Quicken exports (one
for each account, natch), all the transfers from one account to another get
duplicated.
A transfer is physically present in the .qif files of both the "from" and
the "to" account; presumably the duplication is a simple-mided consequence
of this. When the transfer has been reconciled in one account but not the
other, one of the two resulting transactions is reconciled; the other is not.
What I would want is one transaction which is reconciled at one end only.
The obvious workaround is to delete one of the two transactions, but then
I also have to get a way of unreconciling one end or reconciling the other
end of each such transaction. Is there an easy way of accomplishing this
edit? And I have about six years' worth of data to convert -- maybe three of
four hundred transfers altogether. It's hard to imagine editing it all
correctly by hand.
It seems there should be a more elegant way to handle this, perhaps with
special handling of imports. I suspect that a transfer should be
considered to be a duplicate if there is already another transaction
bearing the same date and amount and bank accounts (and such pairs must
be paired off during inporting so that if you see four of them you still
end up with two).
I do not know where to even start looking in the source code to do
something about it. Any suggestions? Or am I missing
something obvious?
(actually, I tried changing some of the scheme code as a first step,
to get it to write out the list of transactions as one humongous
S-expression (so that I might examine it by other means) but my changes seem to have
no effect whatsoever.
Evidently there's something I still don't know about Scheme or
about the Makefiles.)
Is there any way to mass-import a whole directory full of .qif files?
Or do I have to do it one at a time?
Is there an easy way to
(a) uninstall?
(b) build an RPM?
The crucial desideratum for either of these is the list of installed files.
-- hendrik.
