On 13 January 2018 at 17:12, Cliff McDiarmid <[email protected]> wrote: > > >Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2018 at 4:58 PM > >From: "Colin Law" <[email protected]> > >To: "Cliff McDiarmid" <[email protected]> > .Cc: [email protected] > >Subject: Re: Read only transactions > >On 10 January 2018 at 19:21, Cliff McDiarmid <[email protected]> > >wrote: >> >> Hi >> >> I still haven't sorted my Quicken import, getting the correct balances >> without a 'balance adjustment' is difficult. > > > >Add (or adjust) an appropriate opening balance. > >> >> >> But the question is: How do i delete an account when it contains read >> only transactions? I know i can move the transactions elsewhere, but I >> need to delete the accounts. > > > >What do you mean by read only transactions? > > Well I assume, as in Linux, that one cannot write to or change these files. > > >When you delete an account that contains transactions it should ask you > >which account you want to move them to. > > Yes, that's right it does. But it won't let me delete the account > altogether, because the account contains read only transactions. Other > accounts I've deleted have given one the option of moving the files as you > say or deleting them entirely.
All the accounts are in one file, so if you have read access to the file then it is not a permissions issue. How are you trying to delete the account and exactly what do you see when you try to delete it? Colin _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] 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.
