When I imported *everything* from Quicken to gnucash, I noticed the
balances were different in gnucash from in Quicken, even after fixing the
"Opening Balance" transaction. Hoping to nail a gnucash bug,
I binary-searched throug about 8 years of transaction data, and found
that it was not Gnucash, but Quicken that seems to have been at fault.
Here's an extract from my (Quicken) [Checking] account:
12/04 pos provigo 33.67 X 368.88
1998 memo:
cat: Groceries
12/04 cash cash 300.00 X 68.88
1998 SPLIT
[cash] 200.00
groceries
allowances 90.00
allowances
[cash] 10.00
cash
12/04 interac fee 1.25 X 67.63
1998 memo:
cat: Bank Chrg
12/04 039 Mini-Menage 65.00 X 2.63
1998 memo:
cat: Cleaning
and in [cash]:
12/04 cash 210.00 49,641.91
1998 memo:
cat: [Checking]
As you see, one cash withdrawal is split into several purposes,
two of which are handled in the cash account.
When I import this into gnucash, the transactions become duplicated.
I get both the split transaction from checking and the unsplit transaction
from cash, presumably because it does not recognise that the split
transaction in [Checking] corresponds to the nonsplit transaction in [cash].
Now I don't expect you to run and fix this (though it would be nice)
immediately before a stable release, for fear of disturbing something else.
But if the mass import process were to produce a log of unmatched transfers,
this would help me track them down.
gif file extracts follow:
-- hendrik.
from cash:
^
D12/ 4/98
T210.00
Pcash
L[Checking]
^
from Checking:
^
D12/ 4/98
T-33.67
CX
Npos
Pprovigo
LGroceries
^
D12/ 4/98
T-300.00
CX
Ncash
Pcash
L[cash]
S[cash]
Egroceries
$-200.00
Sallowances
Eallowances
$-90.00
S[cash]
Ecash
$-10.00
^
D12/ 4/98
T-1.25
CX
Pinterac fee
LBank Chrg
^
D12/ 4/98
T-65.00
CX
N039
PMini-Menage
LCleaning
^
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