If you delete a higher level account, you'll get a dialog asking if you want to delete the subs also or transfer them under another account.
Regards, Adrien On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 2:55 AM, Colin Law <clan...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 9 February 2018 at 20:38, Adrien Monteleone < > adrien.montele...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I thought perhaps the route to go would be create a new hierarchy >> template, >> but it seems that is not possible, at least from within the software. Then >> I looked at exporting and importing an account tree, but again, while >> export is possible, I don't see how to import a partial tree. >> > > You could export the account tree, open that in gnucash, delete all the > accounts you don't want (they will all be empty of course) and re-export. > I don't know whether you can delete a top level account and all sub > accounts in one go or not, if you can then that might be noticeably quicker > than re-entering them. > > Colin > > >> >> Best of luck. >> >> Regards, >> Adrien >> >> On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 3:54 PM, Steve Isenberg via gnucash-user < >> gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: >> >> > >> > I figured out how to do this once before and now for thelife of I cannot >> > remember. I am trying to duplicate an expense account and allof its >> > sub-accounts, with a new name of course, and zero balances. >> > >> > This is not a transfer of funds and I'm not duplicatingtransactions. It >> is >> > basically a copy of one account hierarchy to a new expenseaccount >> hierarchy. >> > >> > Anyone remember how to do this without creating a newaccount and eight >> new >> > sub-accounts? >> > >> > Thanks >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > gnucash-user mailing list >> > gnucash-user@gnucash.org >> > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >> > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >> > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see >> > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. >> > ----- >> > 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 >> If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see >> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. >> ----- >> 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 If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.