David -
Thanks - this worked like a charm.
One note; when I imported the transactions into the new account (the
first time), the account was created as a "Liability" type, rather than
a "Credit Card" type (which is what all my other cards are). Until I
changed the type, I couldn't move the transactions to one of the other
cards during account deletion; it only offered to move them to one of
the "Liability" type accounts.
Dan
On 2/18/19 4:01 PM, David Carlson wrote:
Dan,
Some financial institutions separate the account number from the card
number so this issue does not come up.
It is fortunate,in a way, that your bank did it that way instead. It
makes it a pain but relatively easy to fix in Gnucash. I would enter a
dummy transaction in that register noting the date, old account number
and new account number, just for future reference when the details are
getting fuzzy in your memory.
Now create a backup of your data file and a new copy as well. Open the
copy.
On the next OFX import GnuCash will ask you if you want use an existing
account or to create a new account. Say yes to new account and let it
import the transactions, save the file. Then delete the newly created
account. You can either delete the transactions because you will
import them again in the next step, or you can let Gnucash move them to
the old account.
Repeat the OFX import. Now, with no account matching the new account
number GnuCash will again ask whether to use an existing account or to
create a new account. Now it is possible to match the old existing
account to the new OFX account number. Complete importing the
transactions.
Once you are happy with the results you can save the data file as your
main file so you do not use the copy again.
David Carlson
On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 1:42 PM Dan Rawson <[1]draws...@earthlink.net>
wrote:
I have a VISA account with my bank where the number has changed
(the
bank replaced the card). The latest downloaded transactions
obviously
have a different account ID in the OFX file; is there any way to
persuade GnuCash to treat this a all part of the same account?
Currently, if I try to import the OFX, the transaction matcher
doesn't
find anything . . .
A scan through the doc/wiki/faq didn't turn up a solution :-(
I can obviously set up a second account, but that's not ideal
from my
point of view, and it's not how the bank treats the account; all
the
transactions both before and after the card swap are part of one
account as far as they are concerned.
Thanks in advance . . .
Dan
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