That is a pretty reasonable summary of the position with CSV imports. The records in CSV do not contain the additional information that identifies a particular transaction uniquely that is present in the OFX file so its detection of duplicates is not as reliable as with OFX. The Bayesian process is used primarily in matching the transfer account to the data based on previous assignments and not for the duplicate detection AFAIK. That is primarily based on a score of matches of the data in selected fields between transactions in the date range around the date of the data being imported.
When you get the no match message I think you can force the match editor to come up (this is another popup dialog in addition to the Import Matcher window). It has been a long time since I have had to use it but if I remember correctly it is something like a click or double click in any area of the record other than the transfer account field. I don't have time to check it out this morning unfortunately as I have an appointment but I will try it out later today or tomorrow and report back. This will show you transactions most closely matching the record being imported and you can force selection of a particular match. I don't think this feature is very well described in the documentation. I wrote a lot of the current documentation largely from experimentation with the program while matching it to the code, but there were a few areas where I hadn't managed to work out exactly how they worked. When I have a bit of spare time I'll take another look at that area. My bank is pretty good with the date transaction range selection, so I can set the 1st of the month to the last of the month and it wont download any transactions either side of that. The only problems now are when i have manually entered transactions with a date slightly different from the bank's date. transaction clearing in banks locally is generally minutes these days so it is rare for the dates to deliver. A few years back it was far more likely. Once the transactions have had the transfer account assigned, they usually appear in the account register even though they have not yet been finally imported. I use multiple screens so having the account register and the import matcher window displayed side by side makes it easier. I mainly rely on reconciliation with the downloaded statements to find any really difficult to locate duplicates. David Cousens ----- David Cousens -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] 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.
