I had tediously entered in my checking account transactions, into a 2016 file,
save it with the ‘log’ files, etc. but now when I open Gnucash, I only see a
2018 file, which I only had a few entries, I tried ‘importing’ from *.log, but
that only did one limited thing, resulting in ‘orphan’
> On Apr 15, 2019, at 11:17 PM, AEG via gnucash-user
> wrote:
>
> The concept of Credits and Debits confuses most newcomers to GnuCash (it did
> me), so I devised a way to remember which goes where.
> Given that transactions involve the movement of money from one account to
> another...
>
>
> On Apr 15, 2019, at 4:10 PM, Adrien Monteleone
> wrote:
>
> I wrote a longer reply, but let’s get this out of the way first:
>
> What makes you think ‘losing money’ = ‘debit’?
Because these terms ‘never make sense’, as seen by this example. It is far more
simpler to just say, money coming
One of the problems I’ve found with gnucash is in the area of importing CSV
formatted transactions. I figured out how to do it reasonably well for my
bank statements, and now I’m turning my attention to my credit card accounts.
I’m trying to enter in data that spans several years, and I have a
