Sent: Monday, December 25, 2017 at 7:28 PM From: "John Ralls" <jra...@ceridwen.us> To: cliffhan...@gardener.com Cc: gnucash-user <gnucash-user@gnucash.org> Subject: Re: Dealing with a large QIF file > On Dec 24, 2017, at 4:58 PM, cliffhan...@gardener.com wrote: > > Thanks . Yes one can import one at a time but this cheque ac from Quicken is huge and has references to other card accounts as categories within it. These accounts don't exist anymore and gnucash is trying to create them as part of the import. This is something I'd like to avoid. Hope this makes sense. Cliff > >The simplest way would be to pick some recent date, perhaps the beginning of last year, set the account’s opening balance to whatever it was on that date, and import only the transactions after >that date. >You could also use a plain-text editor on the QIF file and use search-and-replace to convert all of the closed CC accounts to a single account, perhaps named “Old Credit Cards”.
Thanks again for all the thoughts. Me thinks this data transfer is going to take some time. regards Cliff _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
