I wouldn't be surprised if this has been asked in the past, but I don't
know of a good way to search the archives for these mailing lists (seems
I'd have to download a month at a time in order to search manually). I
also wouldn't be surprised if the answer is blatantly obvious / right in
front of me and I'm just missing it. I did try an Internet search and
got too many irrelevant results (outside of the manual and basic import
information, which I did look through a bit, without much luck).
I recently migrated from an old PC to a new Mac. As far as I can tell,
I was running GnuCash 2.6.16-1 on the PC (I don't remember why I stopped
updating), but I figured I should upgrade during the transition, so I'm
running 4.6-1 on the Mac. I have always downloaded OFX and/or QFX files
from my banks in order to reconcile my manual entries and import
additional transaction data (using U+C to complete my register). For
the manual entries, I have always used the notes field in the register
for most of my bank accounts because there's typically nothing worth
importing there anyway (just something like "OFX ext. info: |Trans
type:Generic debit"). Previously, on the PC, my manually entered notes
were NOT overwritten. Now that I'm on the Mac, the notes are being
overwritten by that arcane data, but I don't know if that is a PC vs Mac
thing or a version change thing. I also don't know if there is anything
I can do to prevent it in either case. What I do know is that the
behavior is consistent across file types and banks (I ignored it the
first time it happened because I didn't want to re-enter a bunch of
previous transactions in order to try to work around it, but I was
expecting it this time, with a different bank providing the data, and
confirmed it happens for both formats).
I don't really want to lose my manually entered data, but I would like
to have the bank data imported an synchronized as well. Is there
anything I can do so that the generic transaction information doesn't
overwrite my previously entered notes?
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