Fred, If the transfer account is not assigned to an imported trnasaction during import it will have the Imbalance account assigned as the transfer account.
This is to alert you that the transaction was incomplete. ANy transactions in the Imbalance account need to have the correct accounts assigned to them. If you were importing your bank account records then it is likely the Imbalance is associated with the stock itself or the brokerage account. It may have been that the transaction was multisplit and affected more then two accounts. If you open the QIF file with a text editor and search for the transaction amount you should be able to locate the transaction entry and identify the necessary account information. To fix the transaction in Gnucash you can either open it in the register of the account you imported the data to or the Imbalance account register. If you click on the entry that is assigned to the Imbalance account in the account column use the down arrow at the right of the column to get the drop down list and select the desired account. That transaction should then no longer appear in the Imbalance account register. The Imbalance account should always have a zero balance as any transactions appearing there represent errors. Similarly with any accounts labelled Orphan which AFAIK are transactions where the assigned account for one split of the transactions has been deleted. They exist to flag transactions which need to be fixed. David Cousens On Thu, 2025-02-06 at 09:06 -0300, Fred Tydeman wrote: > I just noticed that the account Imbalance-USD has some entries. > > However, all the entries are very strange in that there is NO > corresponding second account (that is, no pair of transactions). > Each > entry has a description, but the value is zero. If I do Show Splits, > there is no second account. > > I looked at the backup files and found the date when these > transactions happened (January 11). In looking at the corresponding > log file, I can see transactions that mention Imbalance. But, I do > not know how to read the log file. > > I have done Check and Repair All and the Imbalance-USD transactions > remain. > > In looking at one of the Imbalance transactions, it corresponds to a > stock purchase. I can see two Start/End transactions in the log file > related to that stock. One of those two has the Imbalance. > > It is possible that these transactions are related to an Import of a > QIF file (which I do each Saturday). > _______________________________________________ > 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. _______________________________________________ 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.
