Thanks David. Can I ask which alternative church-centric accounting packages you found? I might be OK with different features if it saved us a significant amount of money. Thanks again.
On Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 12:23 PM Derek Atkins <de...@ihtfp.com> wrote: > Use File - > Export Accounts. > It will create a new data file with just your account tree without any > transactions. > Then File - > Open the new file. > > The issue you are seeing is that when you delete the Imbalance account it > is trying to reassign all your transactions.... To Imbalance. So it > recreates the account. > > -derek > Sent using my mobile device. Please excuse any typos. > On September 15, 2019 8:17:14 AM Daniel Wieberdink <danw8...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > I was hoping to transition to Gnucash to track finances for the small > > church we belong to. I started by optimistically trying to import about 3 > > years worth of transactions from Aplos into GC via a CSV file. That > didn't > > go as smoothly as I hoped. Most of the transactions ended up in the > > "Imbalance-USD" account/category. It seems I have to go thru and > > manually fix each transaction. I'm reluctant because I'm not even sure > I'm > > doing it correctly. So I would like to start over, except I have all the > > accounts set up correctly (I think) so I would like to save those. > > > > I expected I would be able to hold down the shift key, scroll down the > > transaction list to select a big chunk to delete and then hit the delete > > key. But this doesn't work. And I couldn't find any other way to delete > the > > mess I made without deleting them all one at a time. > > > > So then I noticed an account called "Imbalance-USD" so I thought "I will > > try just deleting that." But even that didn't work. I selected the > account, > > pressed the delete key, responded to a couple warning windows by pressing > > the delete button in the messages. The screen flashed a little like it > was > > doing it, but it's still there. I tried multiple times with the same > result. > > > > I'm very close to giving up on this. I'm can't see spending much more > time > > on it if it doesn't work any better than this. Is there something > > fundamental I'm doing wrong? The program looks so promising but I just > > can't get anything to work the way I expect. > > > > I would be grateful for any help you can give. Thanks. > > > > Dan W. > > _______________________________________________ > > 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.