Good Morning Matt, Your summary is spot on.
Thank you very much for your offer. However I feel that that may not further complicate my situation as I have had two sessions of inputting. I think at this stage I prefer to plod on slow and steady. Two things that I think should be written into the main GNU Cash are: Import from XML file. Export to QIF. Regards Mike On Tue, Jan 30, 2018, at 10:02 PM, Matt Graham wrote: > Hi Mike, > > So if I understand correctly from looking through the email chains: > 1. You had everything entered into the mobile app > 2. You exported from the mobile app and hit the bug where splits lose > their values in the export > 3. You imported all the transactions into GNUCash desktop in a new > file (so get the splits, but no values) then painfully went > through and entered all the transaction amounts for the splits > 4. You tried exporting from Gnucash desktop in a variety of formats > and importing back into your main file, and it didn’t work. So you > are now re-entering all of those transactions manually into your > main file.... That is incredibly painful.> > Is all of this correct? > > To try to save you a lot of painful hours of concentration, and > assuming my above is correct, my questions are: > 1. Is this the kind of data that you are willing/able to send to one > of us so that we can see what the outputs are ourselves? (probably > the qif export from the desktop gnucash). Obviously, don’t post it > to gnucash-user because then the world will have it online. > Usually this is not an option for people, but if it is then it > could really help the troubleshooting. Export/import qif from > gnucash has always been really good for me. > 2. If that is not an option, when you exported from Gnucash desktop > in qif format. What do you see when you open the file in Wordpad > or Notepad (I’m assuming you use windows)? It will be a large > file, with lots of text, but it would give us clues as to what is > going wrong.> > Thanks and regards, > > Matt > > *From: *Mike Stillingfleet[1] *Sent: *Tuesday, 30 January 2018 8:33 PM > *To: *Geert Janssens[2]; gnucash-user@gnucash.org *Subject: *Re: > Merging Files or Other Method getting Transactions into main File.> > Thanks Geert, yes I have previously had a go at that other forum no > response. > > I have this morning created reports from the corrected XML file. > > I am starting to input manually. It may take a week or so to re- > input the data but carrying on with the current effort is completely > pointless. > > I do think that the GNU cash Web site should take down any link to > the App and further issue a massive health warning about the App. > > Having said that. Since upgrading I gave scheduled a daily QIF > download from the App. > > GNU Cash so far appears to be able to handle these tiny QIF files. > But I would urge users not to enter a volume of data on the App. It > is a disastrous waste of time. > > > > > > On Tue, Jan 30, 2018, at 8:22 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: > > Op dinsdag 30 januari 2018 07:59:01 CET schreef john_mike: > > > Confused! > > > > > > Back ground : Trying to get damaged transactions from phone to > > > main file. Transactions entered whilst phone app had some sort of > > > double minus problem. > > > > > > > > > What I have done: > > > > > > The only way to repair the transactions was to export as an XML > > > file. Open that XML in GNUCash. Go through line by line and enter > > > amounts. > > > > > > Now I want these transactions to be imported into my main file. > > > > > > > > > I have attempted to export these corrected transactions to a QIF > > > File. But this option does not seem to exist. So have followed > > > the export to CSV file. > > > > > > Now when attempting to import these CSV files to my main file. It > > > fails. > > > > > I'm sorry you have such trouble trying to interchange data between > > these two applications. > > > > But you really should ask help on the Gnucash for Android forum, > > which is not here. The issue starts there in this particular case, > > and there nothing gnucash on desktop can do about this I'm afraid. > > > > CSV import in gnucash 2.6 and before has a very limited scope: it > > was written solely for importing bank statements and the options to > > tweak it show this. GnuCash data (like exported from gnucash to > > CSV) on the other hand has much more detail and the importer has no > > knowledge of how to interpret this. So in > > 2.6, a CSV export/import cycle won't work. The upcoming 3.0 will > > allow this, but for your specific problem it will come a few > > months too late probably. > > > > Good luck solving your issue! > > > > Geert > > > > > > > -- > Mike Stillingfleet mikestillingfl...@fastmail.co.uk > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your > subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > > https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.gnucash.org%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fgnucash-user&data=02%7C01%7C%7C51cdae5a0fd948a6251808d567c4913c%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636529016297750524&sdata=W0zv1rhjxbBbxXl%2FHG4UO8wfyNkF9J1BCi9UjdZUqH8%3D&reserved=0 > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > > https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwiki.gnucash.org%2Fwiki%2FMailing_Lists&data=02%7C01%7C%7C51cdae5a0fd948a6251808d567c4913c%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636529016297750524&sdata=rXuZ%2FU%2FL%2F9mVo%2B3ssU5RdPRmjm5x%2BMjpBijWFeh5gAU%3D&reserved=0 > for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. 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