David T, Does the QIF importer detect duplicates created by transfers within the same import file? I seem to recall needing to separate accounts to different files to detect them.
David C On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 9:00 AM, David T. <sunfis...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Alen, > > What you’ve done with the Benefits section is better, but I still feel > that any mention of benefits of migration is misplaced here. Someone > looking for ways to migrate from Quicken presumably has already come to > this conclusion. > > * I have edited the tips portion further. I added a tip regarding the > whole Categories/Accounts paradigm. > > * I modified your tip regarding import of categories only, since it isn’t > strictly necessary. > > I think it’s useful here to note that I didn’t have to either import the > account structure or individual accounts separately when I imported my > large QIF file way back in the dark ages—I simply exported everything in > one big QIF and did the import from that. That was when I discovered the > holes in my Quicken data. I chose to go back in to Quicken, fill in those > holes, and re-export the entire file again, repeating until I had a clean > enough import to move forward. I know that others have had a different > experience. > > * I modified the tip about multiple currencies to more accurately reflect > the situation and make it clear that the problem isn’t with GnuCash, but > with QIF. > > Cheers, > David > > > On Apr 4, 2018, at 12:52 PM, Alen Siljak <alen.sil...@gmx.com> wrote: > > > > Hi, David, > > > > You are right. I've removed the benefits section but kept the fact about > open data standards. Apart from being a benefit (to me), it is also a > consequence of migration that may or may not be important for users. > > > >> You mention multi-currency problems with QIF, saying that GnuCash only > handles one currency per file. However, I am under the impression that the > problem of multiple currencies had to do with the *QIF* specification, and > not GnuCash. In other words, the problem isn't that GnuCash doesn’t handle > multiple currencies, it’s that QIF doesn’t. Can anyone confirm that for me? > > > > Yes, that's probably true. However, if an application interprets a > transfer in such a manner that it takes 100 Euros from one and then > deposits 100 AUD into another account without warning the user, that's a > big no-no for me. > > > > Thanks for the feedback! > > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.