On 3/8/20 11:14 AM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > Per a previous post Gio noted the intent to delete *some* expense > transactions. AHA. Insight (to quote Martin Gardner). > > The example given was: > >> So example consider accountA. In it you would have transactions to/from: >> AccountB >> AccountC >> Expense:E >> Expense:F >> >> I want to be able to search so it will list Expense:E and F but NOT >> Accounts B and C. Then I can delete these expenses. > It still isn’t clear if the intent is to delete everything in Expense:E & > Expense:F or just those that also are split with AccountA. Well, there is that option to delete an entire account/sub-account. But that is drastic. Not as drastic as deleting everything! > > In the latter case, a proper Find operation I think is the fastest route, > deleting each one by one from that resulting list. (a search result that is, > not a report which does involve extra clicks as the OP noted.) > > Regards, > Adrien > > > >> On Mar 8, 2020 w11d68, at 12:48 PM, Stephen M. Butler <kg...@arrl.net> wrote: >> >> Hmm. Did you say _every_ transaction involved in _all_ expense accounts? >> >> Open your file and save off a copy. >> >> Then on the Accounts tab, find the top-level Expenses account and >> highlight that. >> >> Click on Edit menu item and then on Delete Account. >> >> On the popup screen select the options to delete sub-accounts and to >> delete transactions. >> >> Click on the Delete button on the lower right corner. >> >> POOF -- all transactions involving an expense account are gone. So are >> all the Expense accounts! But you can add those back in as needed. > > _______________________________________________ > 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.
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