What have you specified for Day Threshold for Read-Only Transactions (red line): in Edit > Preferences > Accounts?
Colin On 14 January 2018 at 12:04, Cliff McDiarmid <cliffhan...@gardener.com> wrote: > 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' > > Cliff > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
