I’ve twice now seen the advice to delete the account as a bulk move operation.
Yes, that does work. However, this appears to be a parent account. Can a parent account be safely deleted without affecting the sub accounts? I guess I could try, just for kicks, (since I’m not the one needing to move transactions) but my initial suspicion is —that way lies a mess. Regards, Adrien > On Jul 1, 2020 w27d183, at 10:14 AM, Michael or Penny Novack > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 6/30/2020 4:46 PM, V. Vatsal via gnucash-user wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I am running GnuCash on Mac. >> >> Somehow a month’s worth of credit card transactions ended up in the top >> level Bank Accounts account. Is there some quick way to move or edit them to >> the appropriate credit card account? It’s not possible even to move them >> manually, as far as I can tell, without jumping to the corresponding Expense >> account for each, and then changing the source account there. > > You have been given the general advice, how to do this when you need to > separate transactions in the account by error from those which belong there. > BUT -- in the special case where: > > 1) The are no correct transactions (none that belong in the account) > > 2) They all should be in the same different account > > You CAN (in this special case) bulk move them. Here you would first create a > new "top level bank account" and change the parent of each child of the old > one. Now ONLY those transactions are in it (in the old one). Tell gnucash > that you want to delete that account and it will prompt you to decide if you > also want its contents deleted or moved elsewhere. You would pick "elsewhere" > specifying the correct credit card account. If you want, you can now rename > the parent top level bank account to what it was and don;t forget to make it > a placeholder account. > > Michael D Novack _______________________________________________ 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.
