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 _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] 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.
