What you need to do is start a new file and position those expenses correctly under the the top expense level during the import process. That is not really very hard with a couple of expendable tries to see how it works.
On Sun, Dec 4, 2022, 12:17 PM Scott Traurig <scott.trau...@gmail.com> wrote: > Nope, sorry, you gents did not understand my question. > > I don't have any unwanted accounts. Indeed, all of my categories in Quicken > were well thought out and organized, and well replicated as separate > expense accounts in GnuCash via the import process. > > But with some 100 different, well organized and well thought out expense > accounts, I don't want them all at the top level, which is where GnuCash > puts them upon import. > > In the GnuCash paradigm, I now have top level placeholder accounts for > assets, liabilities, income and expenses. For income, assets and > liabilities it was not much of a chore to move those few accounts that were > imported to be under their proper, respective placeholders in > the hierarchy. But now I need to move all 100 or so expense accounts, > intact, from the top level to underneath the top level, placeholder expense > account. That's a huge PITA if I have to edit the properties of each one > individually. Drag and drop would be a modern UI method for this, alas it > does not exist in GnuCash. > > Is there an easy way to do this, or just grunt it out? > > Thanks, > > Scott > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
