This is another aspect relating to the behavior of GnuCash under the general subject of pending edit. See < https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2019-June/085353.html> and it is also mentioned in < https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2019-June/085341.html> .
David Carlson On Mon, Jul 1, 2019 at 5:24 PM David Carlson <david.carlson....@gmail.com> wrote: > It looks to me like the paste actually worked fine, but it was not edited > to show the account where you wanted it. Try adding a split line assigned > to the desired account first. Of course, then you might as well save, jump > to the other account, copy the other account name over the undesired > account name, re-save and delete the extra line and save again. > > That works fine. You could also navigate to the same transaction in the > General Ledger, for example, and directly change the account name there. > > Lastly, you could also request a new feature to automatically check the > account name when pasting a complete transaction into an account register > and throw up a dialog asking whether you want to paste 'as is' or change > the anchor account to match the account register that you are trying to > paste into? > > David Carlson > > > On Mon, Jul 1, 2019 at 3:55 PM Adrien Monteleone < > adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > >> Have you tried pasting into something like a plain text editor after >> cutting? Perhaps the clipboard is not picking up the ‘cut’ but GnuCash is >> still removing the data. >> >> Anytime I have a pasting problem I always test in a plain text editor to >> see if that is the issue. >> >> Regards, >> Adrien >> >> > On Jul 1, 2019, at 3:30 PM, Paul Kinzelman <p...@kinzelman.com> wrote: >> > >> > I just tried cutting a transaction in one account, and I saw it vanish. >> > I went to another account, pasted it, and it wasn't there, it had >> > gone back to the account where it was before I cut it. >> > >> > So I carefully repeated the cut/paste and it did that again. >> > >> > So I deleted it from the one account, and typed it in manually into >> > the other account and it worked. >> > >> > Has anybody else seen anything like this? >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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. >> > > > -- > David Carlson > -- David Carlson _______________________________________________ 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.
