> (revised message -- yesterday's version bounced)
>
> Well, I got gnucash 3.6.2 running on SuSE Linux 6.3.
You mean gnucash 1.3.2?
> When I import my entire financial state from a set of Quicken exports (one
> for each account, natch), all the transfers from one account to another get
> duplicated.
>
> A transfer is physically present in the .qif files of both the "from" and
> the "to" account; presumably the duplication is a simple-mided consequence
> of this. When the transfer has been reconciled in one account but not the
> other, one of the two resulting transactions is reconciled; the other is not.
> What I would want is one transaction which is reconciled at one end only.
>
> The obvious workaround is to delete one of the two transactions, but then
> I also have to get a way of unreconciling one end or reconciling the other
> end of each such transaction. Is there an easy way of accomplishing this
> edit? And I have about six years' worth of data to convert -- maybe three of
> four hundred transfers altogether. It's hard to imagine editing it all
> correctly by hand.
>
> It seems there should be a more elegant way to handle this, perhaps with
> special handling of imports. I suspect that a transfer should be
> considered to be a duplicate if there is already another transaction
> bearing the same date and amount and bank accounts (and such pairs must
> be paired off during inporting so that if you see four of them you still
> end up with two).
>
> I do not know where to even start looking in the source code to do
> something about it. Any suggestions? Or am I missing
> something obvious?
There is a new qif importer in gnucash 1.3.3 which allows you to
import multiple qif files at once. You might try that.
> (actually, I tried changing some of the scheme code as a first step,
> to get it to write out the list of transactions as one humongous
> S-expression (so that I might examine it by other means) but my changes seem
> to have no effect whatsoever.
> Evidently there's something I still don't know about Scheme or
> about the Makefiles.)
What scheme code did you change?
> Is there an easy way to
> (a) uninstall?
No, not with the current build system.
> (b) build an RPM?
Have you built one before? The gnucash.spec file in the rpm
directory is what I have used.
dave
