Sorry, it is in File > Properties > Accounts. Best left at zero unless you want earlier transactions to be protected.
Colin On 14 January 2018 at 12:15, Colin Law <clan...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
