On 19 November 2024 at 16:39, Simon Roberts said: > Hi all, > > I'm hoping to get my personal accounts onto GNC (I'm using it for a small > business, so I'm tolerably familiar with it already). > > I exported a QIF from Quicken, and imported it. Lots of accounts were > created in GNC that map "well-at-first-glance" to the actual accounts and > categories in Quicken. However, many balances are way off. > > I've done some digging, and the thing I've noticed so far is that some > transfers between actual bank accounts appear to have been entered twice. > I say "appear" because I get oddly different results in "basic ledger" > view from what I get in transaction journal view (though I must say up > front, I'm not a transaction journal view user, so perhaps I just don't > understand it. > > Here's one of the offending entries in basic ledger. There's only one > entry (a deposit to this account) in the Quicken file. but notice two > entries here--the blocked out account numbers are identical in the upper > and lower entry: [image: image.png] Here's the transaction journal view, > notice there's only one entry here (I left the previous and next visible > so you can see that :) Again, all those greyed out account numbers are > identical: [image: image.png] Did I do something wrong in the export, or > in the import? I'd prefer to get this right from the start, there are > quite a few years of data, and fixing this up by hand over all the > accounts would be a frustratingly major undertaking.
The GL view show this is a circular transfer: both sides the same account. That's why you see it twice in the account view and only once in the GL. How it got like that I have no idea. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: 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.
