On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 10:50 AM Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote:
> > > > On Nov 17, 2019 w47d321, at 11:14 PM, Peter West <p...@pbw.id.au> wrote: > > > > I found a transaction in Orphan-AUD. It was a split, and the Orphan > component was zero. Maybe I had forgotten part of the split, and then > corrected it, leaving nothing in the Orphan-AUD account. > > > > I wanted to remove this transaction from Orphan-AUD. As I recall, I > tried to remove the Orphan line from the copy of the transaction under the > Orphan-AUD tab. Uh-uh. Something about the anchoring to another account. > > You can’t delete a split that is for the account in the current register. > (that is what anchors it to that account) > Yes, you can delete an anchor split and that is what I noted in my previous message. I called it the 'home' account split. > > > > So I went to the parent account (an asset account) of the split, and > tried to delete the null Orphan-AUD line. That seemed to work. > > Not sure what you mean by ‘parent account’ of the split. Which split? > You’re speaking of the Orphan-AUD split and it only has Expenses as a > parent. > > > > > Back to the Orphan-AUD tab, delete this transaction as a whole. Presto! > All gone. > > The transaction should have been removed from the Orphan-AUD register > automatically when you removed the Orphan-AUD split from another register. > That is normal. But if it hadn’t yet disappeared (because the register view > didn’t refresh for some reason), and then you deleted the transaction from > the Orphan-AUD register, then yes - you removed the entire transaction. > There should have been no need to do so. > > Peter may have navigated to another register view without first committing an edit, but I shouldn't speak for him. > > > > Bad mistake. Deleting transaction was good to its word, and deleted the > whole transaction. I lost the only references I had to the original > transaction (from August). > > > > What is the correct method? > > 1. When you want to remove a split from a transaction do not try to do so > from the same register as the split. If that is how you happened to find > the transaction, right-click on one of the other splits and choose ‘jump’ > which will open the transaction in that other split’s account register. > > 2. Go back to the original register and click on a different transaction. > (or close it entirely) > > 3. From the ‘jumped to’ register, either tab through and zero out the > desired split or right-click the split and choose ‘Delete split’. > > 4. Observe that only that split is removed. > > 5. Re-open (or go back to the original account register) and observe that > the transaction no longer shows up there since you removed the split > anchoring it there. (unless there was more than one such split assigned to > that account, in which case of course, it will still be there with that > remaining split) > > Good Advice! > Regards, > Adrien > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > -- David Carlson _______________________________________________ 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.