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you can reduce the chance of this happening in new transactions by importing more often. you can reduce the chance of this happening in new transactions by importing more often.
(If it happens in old transactions, that's harmless.) (If it happens in old transactions, that's harmless.)
Note this is just one kind of "deduplication": avoiding reprocessing the same dates across successive runs. Note this is just one kind of "deduplication": not reprocessing the same dates across successive runs.
`import` doesn't detect other kinds of duplication, such as the same transaction appearing multiple times within a single run. `import` doesn't detect other kinds of duplication, such as
(Because that sometimes happens legitimately in real-world data.) the same transaction appearing multiple times within a single run,
or a new transaction that looks identical to a transaction already in the journal.
(Because these can happen legitimately in real-world data.)
Here's a situation where you need to run `import` with care: Here's a situation where you need to run `import` with care:
say you download but forget to import `bank.1.csv`, and a week later you download `bank.2.csv` with some overlapping data. say you download but forget to import `bank.1.csv`, and a week later you download `bank.2.csv` with some overlapping data.