Interesting. I wasn't sure what changes were necessary to get it to
import correctly. Anyhow, CCing this to the Moneydance mailing list (of
which I am not a subscriber)--maybe they can respond, or change their
QIF exporter?
Thanks for the reply.
Bill Gribble wrote:
>
> Matthew Vanecek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > AFAICT, the MoneyDance QIF file is a standard QIF. Below is a sample of
> > one of the transactions which was duplicated:
>
> The QIF sample you sent is malformed, unfortunately, and gnucash
> doesn't have a chance of interpreting it the way you ask.
>
> > D01/21/2000
> > T-700.00
> > CX
> > N856
> > PSPFCU
> > M
> > SSPFCU Checking
> > ESPFCU
> > $-500.00
> > SSPFCU Savings
> > ESPFCU
> > $-200.00
> > ^
> >
> > (Dest. Acct 1)
> > D01/21/2000
> > T500.00
> > CX
> > PSPFCU
> > ^
> >
> > (Dest. Acct 2)
> > D01/21/2000
> > T200.00
> > CX
> > PSPFCU
> > ^
>
> The first problem is that the split transaction is specifying a split
> to a Category called "SPFCU Checking", not an Account called "SPFCU
> Checking", and likewise for the savings account. Transfers from one
> account to another have to have square brackets around the account
> name, as in "S[SPFCU Checking]"
>
> The next problem is that the destination account transactions don't
> even indicate the source account as a Category, much less as an
> account. In order for Gnucash to know that these two transactions are
> opposite "halves" of the same financial event (and eliminate the
> duplication), the transactions in question must at least have the form
> of Quicken transfers.
>
> To be correct, your three transactions should look like this:
>
> D01/21/2000
> T-700.00
> CX
> N856
> PSPFCU
> M
> S[SPFCU Checking]
> ESPFCU
> $-500.00
> S[SPFCU Savings]
> ESPFCU
> $-200.00
> ^
>
> (dest acct 1)
>
> D01/21/2000
> T500.00
> CX
> PSPFCU
> L[SPFCU]
> ^
>
> (Dest. Acct 2)
>
> D01/21/2000
> T200.00
> CX
> PSPFCU
> L[SPFCU]
> ^
>
> You should file this as a bug report against Moneydance. The gnucash
> QIF importer goes out of its way to be friendly to QIF files that
> aren't exactly right, but I seriously doubt that this file would be
> imported correctly by anything, including Quicken.
>
> Bill Gribble
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