> On Jun 7, 2023, at 07:50, Fred Tydeman <tydeman.f...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> When I started Gnucash today (after doing a QIF import yesterday),
> I am getting a popup:
> The separator character ":" is used in one or more account names.
> This will result in unexpected behaviour.  Either change the account names
>  or choose another separator character.
>  Below you will find the list of invalid account names:
>  Tybor:TbLLC
> 
> In looking at the COA, I see that Tybor:TbLLC was added by Gnucash as
> a Trading account (which I assume resulted from the QIF import).
> 
> In using the Security Editor, I see a Namespace of Tybor:TbLLC
> 
> I assume that the Trading account name came from the Namespace name.
> 
> If ":" is a problem, then it seems to me that I should not be allowed to
> create
> a Namespace name with a ":" in it.
> 
> Also, there appears to be no way to edit a security Namespace name.

Please file a bug about the namespace and trading accounts.

There's no separate control for editing namespaces so you have to create a new 
one and use it for all of the commodities  that used the old one. I think that 
once there are no commodities using a namespace it will disappear when you 
start a new session. 

Regards,
John Ralls

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