Re: [GNC] Duplicating Account

2024-11-04 Thread Kalpesh Patel
the contra entries from that single place. -Original Message- From: Griffin Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2024 10:44 AM To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: Re: [GNC] Duplicating Account Thank you so much Kalpesh for the reply. I tried exporting and then importing, but that didn't

Re: [GNC] Duplicating Account

2024-10-31 Thread Liz
On Thu, 31 Oct 2024 08:43:55 -0600 Griffin wrote: > Thank you so much Kalpesh for the reply. > > I tried exporting and then importing, but that didn't work for me. I > guess I did something wrong, and I ended up with lots of transactions > with no values in them at all. > > In the end I selec

Re: [GNC] Duplicating Account

2024-10-31 Thread Liz
On Wed, 30 Oct 2024 07:26:10 -0700 "Stan Brown (using GC 4.14)" wrote: > On 2024-10-30 04:49, Mark Penner wrote: > > Oct 30, 2024 02:59:23 Griffin : > >> Is it possible to duplicate an account? > > > > Sounds like an XY problem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem > > What are you tryin

Re: [GNC] Duplicating Account

2024-10-31 Thread Griffin
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) Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2024 10:26 AM To: Mark Penner Cc: gnuCash User List Subject: Re: [GNC] Duplicating A

Re: [GNC] Duplicating Account

2024-10-31 Thread Michael or Penny Novack via gnucash-user
On 10/31/2024 10:13 AM, Kalpesh Patel wrote: 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 resu

Re: [GNC] Duplicating Account

2024-10-31 Thread Kalpesh Patel
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) Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2024 10:26 AM To: Mark Penner Cc: gnuCash User List Subject: Re: [GNC] Duplicating

Re: [GNC] Duplicating Account

2024-10-30 Thread Michael or Penny Novack via gnucash-user
On Tue, October 29, 2024 12:53 pm, Griffin wrote: Is it possible to duplicate an account? Please define what you mean by "duplicate an account". An account object doesn't have a lot of data in it: a name, a type, a currency/commodity, a parent. If you want to also duplicate all the transactio

Re: [GNC] Duplicating Account

2024-10-30 Thread Stan Brown (using GC 4.14)
On 2024-10-30 04:49, Mark Penner wrote: > Oct 30, 2024 02:59:23 Griffin : >> 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

Re: [GNC] Duplicating Account

2024-10-30 Thread Derek Atkins
Hi, On Tue, October 29, 2024 12:53 pm, Griffin wrote: > Is it possible to duplicate an account? Please define what you mean by "duplicate an account". An account object doesn't have a lot of data in it: a name, a type, a currency/commodity, a parent. If you want to also duplicate all the trans

[GNC] Duplicating Account

2024-10-30 Thread Mark Penner
Oct 30, 2024 02:59:23 Griffin : > 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? ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription

[GNC] Duplicating Account

2024-10-30 Thread Griffin
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