Of course, once you've edited every transaction to put it into a child account, you could have just changed them all to their proper account altogether, and eliminated the entire account delete set of steps...
-------- Original Message -------- From: Michael or Penny Novack <[email protected]> Sent: Wed Jul 01 15:56:49 EDT 2020 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [GNC] Bulk moving transactions On 7/1/2020 12:07 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > 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. > Did you read what I wrote? The process? YES, you would want to first make this account NOT be the parent of its children. Once you have given them a different parent, they will no longer be the children of the account you want to delete. Create a new placeholder account. Edit each child account so that this account is now its parent. THEN delete the account that had been the parent. 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. _______________________________________________ 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.
