I just ran gnucash-to-beancount but had to do some fiddling for it to work. Posting these notes in case it helps someone in the future. (Sorry to revive this ancient thread, but it comes up in search results and seems like an appropriate place for the information.)
My changes (on top of Andrew's commits) are at https://github.com/falsifian/gnucash-to-beancount but you probably don't want all of them. Also I had to do one hack which is not included as a git commit. - I edited setup.py to force piecash to be at exactly version 0.15.0. (Otherwise test.sh fails because newer piecash versions can't read data/sample.gnucash. It would probably be better to update that, but I was having some other issues; read on...) - piecash (even newer versions <https://github.com/sdementen/piecash/issues/126>) complained about my GnuCash file, saying "AssertionError: Unsupported table versions". To fix this, I made the following changes *on a copy* of my GnuCash file. (File created with GnuCash 3.8; the values before the changes were 3000010 and 5 respectively.) - *** DON'T DO THIS TO YOUR MAIN GNUCASH FILE *** - sqlite3 (gnucash copy) - sqlite> update versions set table_version = 3000010 where table_name = 'Gnucash'; - sqlite> update versions set table_version = 4 where table_name = 'splits'; - My own quirks / conveniences; you may want to skip these: - If you're using nixpkgs, you might find the shell.nix I added convenient. (Just run 'nix-shell' and you'll get a shell where you can run the gnucash-to-beancount command.) - I changed directives.py so that all the account names now contain "GnuCash". This is the part you are least likely to want. I did it because I want to go through all my accounts and rename them if I end up switching to beancash, and this will be a way of keeping track of which accounts still have their old names. - I added "gnucash_guid" metadata fields to transactions, commodities, prices and accounts (in the "open" directive). I'm not sure whether I'll use these, but they're there just in case. This will tell me which things I imported from GnuCash, and could conceivably be useful if I end up making changes to my original GnuCash file and want to see what should be updated in my beancount file. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beancount+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/59e684d1-532c-4447-b039-f4b66c81fa71%40googlegroups.com.
