Sorry, I forgot to include that in order to see the Income option for type, you 
need to first choose an Income account as a parent. (or make it another top 
level account)

Regards,
Adrien

> On Aug 13, 2019, at 2:06 AM, Adrien Monteleone 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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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