Sorry Michael, it was an oversight. I was not reading carefully. Geert pointed that out to me as well.
Apologies for the noise. Regards, Adrien > On Jul 1, 2020 w27d183, at 2:56 PM, Michael or Penny Novack > <stepbystepf...@comcast.net> wrote: > > On 7/1/2020 12:07 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: >> I’ve twice now seen the advice to delete the account as a bulk move >> operation. >> >> Yes, that does work. >> >> However, this appears to be a parent account. >> >> Can a parent account be safely deleted without affecting the sub accounts? >> >> I guess I could try, just for kicks, (since I’m not the one needing to move >> transactions) but my initial suspicion is —that way lies a mess. >> > Did you read what I wrote? The process? > > YES, you would want to first make this account NOT be the parent of its > children. Once you have given them a different parent, they will no longer be > the children of the account you want to delete. > > Create a new placeholder account. Edit each child account so that this > account is now its parent. THEN delete the account that had been the parent. > > Michael D Novack _______________________________________________ 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.
