Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2018 at 5:22 PM From: "Colin Law" <clan...@gmail.com> To: "Cliff McDiarmid" <cliffhan...@gardener.com> Cc: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: Re: Read only transactions On 13 January 2018 at 17:12, Cliff McDiarmid <cliffhan...@gardener.com> wrote: > > >Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2018 at 4:58 PM > >From: "Colin Law" <clan...@gmail.com> > >To: "Cliff McDiarmid" <cliffhan...@gardener.com> > .Cc: gnucash-user@gnucash.org > >Subject: Re: Read only transactions > >On 10 January 2018 at 19:21, Cliff McDiarmid <cliffhan...@gardener.com> wrote: >> >> Hi >> >> I still haven't sorted my Quicken import, getting the correct balances >> without a 'balance adjustment' is difficult. > > > >Add (or adjust) an appropriate opening balance. > >> >> >> But the question is: How do i delete an account when it contains read >> only transactions? I know i can move the transactions elsewhere, but I >> need to delete the accounts. > > > >What do you mean by read only transactions? > > Well I assume, as in Linux, that one cannot write to or change these files. > > >When you delete an account that contains transactions it should ask you which account you want to move them to. > > Yes, that's right it does. But it won't let me delete the account altogether, because the account contains read only transactions. Other accounts I've deleted have given one the option of moving the files as you say or deleting them entirely. >All the accounts are in one file, so if you have read access to the >file then it is not a permissions issue. How are you trying to delete >the account and exactly what do you see when you try to delete it? I right click on the account and select delete account. I get a box that gives me two options. To move the transactions and to delete them, but the delete option is greyed out. The message in the same box says: 'This account contains read-only transactions which may not be deleted'
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