Back in the 2.6.x days the AFC importer did not do a very good job of importing investment account files. I typed "qfx", not sure where AFC came from.
I hope it is better now. David Carlson On Sat, Nov 9, 2019, 12:41 PM Dean Bradley <no1clash...@mailbox.org> wrote: > Thanks for the suggestions. It sounds from your description as though you > entered a bunch of historical information for your investment accounts. Is > this correct? To be clear, I have no intention of doing that. I am not > bringing any history over from Quicken, for any account. I intend to use > recent balances on each account as an opening balance in GnucCash, and then > use QFX downloads to maintain them from that point. This applies to my > investment account as well. It is an IRA, so I don´t need to identify lots, > I have no splits, etc., I intend to start with positions as of X date, and > import from that point on. If this is a bad approach, please let me know. > But spending the time to bring over 3.5 years of history, since the > establishment of the IRA, is a non-starter for me. > > ~dean~ > > > On November 9, 2019 at 8:33 AM orn...@tutanota.com wrote: > > > > > > "Thanks for your reply. I get the impression that even if I get the > import process sorted out, that this will be a tedious process and probably > no easier in the long run that just entering all the data manually. You > state the importer is ahead of the documentation, but my evaluation was > based on actually trying the importer more than going following the > documentation. None of them seemed suitable without a lot of work, and > manual entry is a lot of work. I believe I'll do the latter. > > > > Regards, > > ~dean~"I went through much the same process in August and was unable to > use the importer for investments > > effectively - I ended up doing much of it manually, also. > > > > I have some techniques suggestions that might be useful for manual entry. > > "Save as" your work product as something like "GnuCash_Experimental" in > a directory different from your main one in case of non-recoverable errors. > > Do one account at a time > > Have your working account at the top level, e.g., ABCDE Mutual Fund, > rather than "Assets:Investments:Taxable:Joint:Mutual Funds; this makes the > splits easier to assign. Moving a whole account to its nested position > later is easy using the (hair-raising) "Delete Account" technique, which I > practiced a few times before invoking it with real data. > > Do only six months or a year's worth of your most recent data at a time. > This gives you current information immediately, allowing you to fill in > older data as you have time. > > Use common Description terms, such as "Dividend Reinvestment" when > possible - this allows you to <Tab> to create the same split as previously, > saving much Debit/Credit assignment clicks. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > gnucash-user mailing list > > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > > ----- > > 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 > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > 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 If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
