On 7/1/2020 6:30 PM, D. wrote:
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...
?????? I wasn't talking about editing ANY transactions (or putting
them in a child account)
I was talking about editing ACCOUNTS. I suspect that perhaps you have
not edited accounts, changed their names or descriptions, changed what
their parent was (move in the CoA) etc.
If you have transactions in an account that do not belong there (and no
transactions that do belong there) and these transactions all should be
in some different account you CAN "block move" them to that other
account. You do this by trying to delete the account and when gnucash
asks what you want done with the transactions (delete or move to another
account) you select the move option. BUT if that first account has
children, you have to first move the children elsewhere. You do that not
by moving the transactions in these accounts but by respecifying what
account is the parent.
I am frequently adding accounts to my CoAs, adding parent accounts,
making existing accounts children, etc.
Michael D Novack
PS --- I will give an example. Let's say you have an account "automobile
expenses" as a parent that has under it things like "fuel", "repairs",
etc. You now get a second car. What to do? Well I would:
1) create new accounts "auto1 expenses" and "auto2 expenses" and make
them children of "automobile expenses"
2) edit each of the existing children "fuel", "repairs", etc. changing
their parent from "automobile expenses" to "auto1 expenses".
3) create new "fuel", "repairs", etc. as children of "auto2 expenses".
<< notice -- no moving of transactions was involved but those expenses
related to auto 1 are where they belong >>
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