unexpected payee showing up in investment transaction

[Jack]

Hello Thomas,

On 2018.12.31 08:51, Thomas Baumgart wrote:
> On Sonntag, 30. Dezember 2018 00:12:37 CET Jack Ostroff wrote:
> 
>> I was looking through all transactions for a specific payee, and  
>> found something that does not make any sense to me.
> >
>> The payee is the US Treasury, which I use to track my federal tax  
>> payments.  The transaction was "Sell shares" from an investment  
>> account.  The transaction has three splits (looking into the xml  
>> file).
>> - The first split is for the investment brokerage account for the  
>> amount of the proceeds of the sale.
>> - The second split is for the category I use for brokerage fees.
>> - The third split is for the account of the equity being sold,  
>> including the number of shares, price per share, total value of  
>> sale, but also has that payee.
> 
> Could that be caused by some import operation?
Unfortunately, that transaction is from the end of 2017, so I don't  
know for sure, but it was probably imported by libofx via direct  
connect.  However, I have very few transactions at all for that payee,  
so it seems unlikely to have been from an incorrect match.
> 
>> Why would there be any payee on that sort of transaction and how  
>> could it have gotten there?  Is there any way to remove it other  
>> than manually simply removing it from the file?
> 
> Does it go away, if you edit the transaction and save it back to the  
> file (maybe make a little change and revert it again just to make  
> sure it was saved to the data engine). The only idea I have other  
> than fiddling with the XML file directly.
Unfortunately, no.  I edited the transactions, saved the file, closed  
KMM, and reopened, and the payee was still there.  I also tried editing  
the transaction in the brokerage account.  No change there, either.   
Oddly, I see the "Go to Payee" in the context menu for the transaction  
in the investment account, but I do NOT see it if I try in the  
brokerage account.

I suppose it is possible that I was using a self-compiled version at  
the time that had some transient bug, and I have a vague memory of  
other cases where I've ended up with a payee in an investment  
transaction that shouldn't have had one.  It still doesn't make any  
sense though, but I do seem to find that sort of problem.
> 
> > At some point, I suppose
> > I'll see if there are any other investment transactions with payees  
> in
> > them, but that will probably take me a bit of perl programming to  
> hunt
> > through the file.
> >
> > Thanks for any thoughts on this.
> >
> > Jack
> 
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> 
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Jack