The leaf display option would have rendered the opposite effect. You’d have seen only the child (sub-account) names with none of the parents.
So instead of: Expenses:Hydro:Main House Expenses:Hydro:Retreat Expenses:Hydro:A-frame you’d see: Main House Retreat A-frame Since it is a small number of transactions, I’d recreate those sub-accounts and then re-assign those splits manually. Certainly though, GnuCash shouldn’t delete and merge sub-accounts without at least a warning. (you can do this intentionally and get a dialog asking what you want to do - merge or delete the transactions) It might be worth filing a bug over, but tracing down the cause and being able to repeat the bug might be tough. Regards, Adrien > On Dec 16, 2019 w51d350, at 8:52 AM, Paul Kroitor <p...@kroitor.ca> wrote: > > Thanks for your reply. > > Yes, I am sure, at least in terms of everything I can think of to look at. > The payments in the chequing account have all been changed to Expenses:Hydro > rather than Expenses:Hydro:Main House. More importantly, exporting a Chart of > Accounts doesn't show any of the sub-accounts. > > EXPENSE:"Expenses:Groceries":Groceries::Groceries:::CAD:CURRENCY:F:F:F > EXPENSE:"Expenses:House Insurance":House Insurance::House > Insurance:::CAD:CURRENCY:F:F:F > EXPENSE:"Expenses:Hydro":Hydro::Hydro-Quebec:::CAD:CURRENCY:F:F:F > EXPENSE:"Expenses:Meals":Meals::Restaurants, Fast food:::CAD:CURRENCY:F:F:F > EXPENSE:"Expenses:Medical Expenses":Medical Expenses::Medical > Expenses:::CAD:CURRENCY:F:F:F > > One thing I did do a couple of weeks back is to check "Only display leaf > account names" in the preferences, and I may not have opened the book since > then. But surely this is just a display option and doesn't affect the > underlying data at all. > > There are only a couple of dozen transactions, and it's not hard to repair it > manually, but I thought I should report the occurrence just in case anyone > else see similar weirdness. > > Paul _______________________________________________ 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.
