Jack, If you had GnuCash installed it is unclear why you had problems deleting certain accounts. The only difficulty would normally be if there were existing transactions to the account you were trying to delete. In that case you either have to decide to assign the transactions to another account or delete them. The other area where you might expect problems is with the business features where deleting accounts will disrupt those features.
It sounds as though your problems were in setting up the CoA to meet your needs. If you don't need the business features then you should be able to add and remove accounts as necessary. You may have difficulty removing the top level Asset, Liability, Equity, Income and Expense accounts and these should not be removed at all as that will disrupt the reports. They should really be placeholders for the accounts you need in each category and you should create your accounts under the top level accounts. The best bet is to select the accout structure closest to meeting your needs in the setup assistant and modify it from there. If you do get in a mess and need to start again, all you need to delete is the gnucash data file, not the gnucash program or the user settings. There is some relevant information on this wiki page https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v3/C/gnucash-guide/basics-migrate-settings.html for migrating settings. Migrating the data is a matter of copying the data file to a new location or opening a new data file and giving it a new name. As GnuCash creates backup and log files it is a good idea to store your datafile in its own folder. The data file will be in whatever location you stored it when you first create the file. There are a number of tutorials on the internet which discuss removing GnuCash from MacOS systems: https://www.uninstallmacapp.com/gnucash-2-6-3-removal.html https://macuninstallguides.com/remove-gnucash-2-6-3-on-mac.html http://macosuninstaller.com/remove-gnucash-2-6-10.html Good luck David ----- David Cousens -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
