With that out of the way, I sounds like that the asking person wants to experiment something within the account. In that case, it is rather going to be best by making a copy of the file somewhere else. Then restore it back if you don’t like the result after the experiment or experiment with the copy of the file and then overwrite original if results looks good.
Brief Explanation on XY Problem: : X (Ask) Y (Why) -----Original Message----- From: Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) <stan...@fastmail.fm> Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2024 10:26 AM To: Mark Penner <mrp@markpenner.space> Cc: gnuCash User List <gnucash-user@gnucash.org> Subject: Re: [GNC] Duplicating Account On 2024-10-30 04:49, Mark Penner wrote: > Oct 30, 2024 02:59:23 Griffin <grif...@bernevyl.com>: >> Is it possible to duplicate an account? > > Sounds like an XY problem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem > What are you trying to do? Cool! I saw this phenomenon frequently in my days in software tech support, but I never knew it had a name. Thanks! Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com/ _______________________________________________ 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.
