Ah. I misread your original post. Having used GnuCash for over 15 years now, I am quite familiar with editing accounts, thank you.
Still, editing a bunch of accounts seems like more complication than just editing the transactions themselves. I guess I assume that because a month of credit card transactions for me is something like 20 transactions total. Best. -------- Original Message -------- From: Michael or Penny Novack <stepbystepf...@comcast.net> Sent: Wed Jul 01 22:20:08 EDT 2020 To: "D." <sunfis...@yahoo.com> Cc: Matthew Forbis via gnucash-user <gnucash-user@gnucash.org> Subject: Re: [GNC] Bulk moving transactions On 7/1/2020 6:30 PM, D. wrote: > Of course, once you've edited every transaction to put it into a child > account, you could have just changed them all to their proper account > altogether, and eliminated the entire account delete set of steps... > ?????? I wasn't talking about editing ANY transactions (or putting them in a child account) I was talking about editing ACCOUNTS. I suspect that perhaps you have not edited accounts, changed their names or descriptions, changed what their parent was (move in the CoA) etc. If you have transactions in an account that do not belong there (and no transactions that do belong there) and these transactions all should be in some different account you CAN "block move" them to that other account. You do this by trying to delete the account and when gnucash asks what you want done with the transactions (delete or move to another account) you select the move option. BUT if that first account has children, you have to first move the children elsewhere. You do that not by moving the transactions in these accounts but by respecifying what account is the parent. I am frequently adding accounts to my CoAs, adding parent accounts, making existing accounts children, etc. Michael D Novack PS --- I will give an example. Let's say you have an account "automobile expenses" as a parent that has under it things like "fuel", "repairs", etc. You now get a second car. What to do? Well I would: 1) create new accounts "auto1 expenses" and "auto2 expenses" and make them children of "automobile expenses" 2) edit each of the existing children "fuel", "repairs", etc. changing their parent from "automobile expenses" to "auto1 expenses". 3) create new "fuel", "repairs", etc. as children of "auto2 expenses". << notice -- no moving of transactions was involved but those expenses related to auto 1 are where they belong >> _______________________________________________ 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.
