Hi, It's been a very long time since I asked a question on this list serve, and a very long time since I last did a "cleanup" of my GC file (with perl scripts back then).
I started keeping my accounting data in GC back in March of 2005. Now I'm looking to reorganize my chart of expense accounts (again) to simplify things... when I do that, I'll want to remove the obsolete Bayes data (again). I have a general idea of how the Bayesian import mapper works... Years ago I wrote some perl scripts to prune it out of the uncompressed XML file, so I could start it over. But, I'm now looking at the Tools -> Import Map Editor which I will (belatedly say) is a huge improvement over mucking about with the xml slot data -- which now looks to be simplified), especially if all one wants to do, is zero it out. But, this has lead me to some questions: Most of the Bayes data is space tokenized transaction description data. I get that part. My understanding is that it is scores in this data that the matcher uses to map transactions to a balancing account. But I see data, that could not of come from transaction descriptions. Why are days of the week (Monday, Tuesday, etc) in the Bayes data? Where does this data come from? How does this help the transaction mapper? It looks like the Non-Bayesian data consist of a full (non-tokenized) transaction descriptions... at least a few of them (nowhere near all of them... not even close). Given how few I've got (and how old they appear to be), I don't under stand why this data is here. It is almost like this was an early attempt to create transaction matching data, that might have existed since before the bayesian matcher "matured." So: Why does gnucash have these records (and how did they get created)? Are these records used in transaction mapping? (anymore)... or does this display exist simply for the purpose of allowing one to nuke them? Thanks Lincoln _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
