Geoff,

That appears to work.  The only thing that I lost was the Tax Report Options 
that were assigned to the original accounts.  That’s a minor pain to 
reconfigure, but a lot less of a pain than setting up everything and 
re-importing customers.

Thanks
Keith

> On Mar 20, 2021, at 6:30 PM, Geoff <cleanoutmys...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> How about:
> . Export the Accounts
> . Delete each Account (and its transactions)
> . Import the Accounts.
> 
> 
> Geoff
> =====
> 
> On 21/03/2021 12:23 pm, Keith Fetterman wrote:
>> I’ve tried that, and you are correct.  I creates the same chart of accounts, 
>> but the tax tables, customers/vendors, etc. are missing.
>> I thought a bulk delete of the transactions would work, but I don’t see a 
>> way to bulk delete the transactions.
>>> On Mar 20, 2021, at 6:21 PM, D. <sunfis...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> That saves accounts, but I believe not any of the business objects, 
>>> unfortunately.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>> From: "D. via gnucash-user" <gnucash-user@gnucash.org>
>>> Sent: Sat Mar 20 21:18:51 EDT 2021
>>> To: Keith Fetterman <keithfetter...@gmail.com>
>>> Cc: GnuCash users group <gnucash-user@gnucash.org>
>>> Subject: Re: [GNC] How To Remove All Transactions
>>> 
>>> File->Export Accounts
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>> From: Keith Fetterman <keithfetter...@gmail.com>
>>> Sent: Sat Mar 20 21:14:40 EDT 2021
>>> To: GnuCash users group <gnucash-user@gnucash.org>
>>> Subject: [GNC] How To Remove All Transactions
>>> 
>>> I need to create a copy of an existing GnuCash file that does not have the 
>>> transactions.  I need to keep the same chart of accounts, configuration and 
>>> settings, tax tables, customers, vendors and report configurations in the 
>>> new GnuCash file, but have all of the transactions removed.  What is the 
>>> easiest way to do this?
>>> 
>>> Is there a way to bulk delete all of the transactions and have an empty 
>>> chart of accounts?
>>> 
>>> Thanks
>>> Keith
>>> 
>>> PS.  I checked the mailing list, but I could find any recent posts.
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