Changing the account type to Income first should allow the deletion and 
re-assignment.

Since they are both credit type accounts, you are fortunate not to have the 
debits and credits reversed.

Regards,
Adrien

> On Aug 13, 2019, at 1:42 AM, Michael Hendry <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I have set up some accounts as Liabilities and want to change them to Income. 
> This can’t be done by deleting the accounts and transferring the transactions 
> to another account because only Liability Accounts are offered as alternative 
> destinations.
> 
> I would like to export the transactions to CSV, edit the Liability Account 
> references to make them refer to Income, and import the resulting CSV.
> 
> Let’s say I have the following accounts:
> 
> L:A:B
> L:C:D
> 
> I use File—>Export—>Export Transactions to CSV, and select the accounts in 
> L:A:B (ignoring L:C:D). GC highlights the appropriate accounts in blue and 
> leaves the unwanted ones.
> 
> The resulting CSV file ignores B, including only transactions in L:A, and not 
> L:A’s sub-accounts.
> 
> If I select the whole L tree, the resulting CSV file is complete.
> 
> Obviously, I can edit out the unwanted transactions, and then adjust the 
> destination accounts before I import the result, but I don’t think I should 
> need to do it this way.
> 
> Am I misunderstanding something, or have I uncovered an "undesirable feature" 
> of the "Export Transactions to CSV" process?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Michael

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