On 2023-09-04 21:28, Jediator wrote: > Let's not to discuss whether it's a good idea or not to delete an > account that contains transactions. It's a valid user function in GC to > delete a non-empty account.
I've never done that myself, but from discussions I followed here in the past, when you delete an account that has transactions, GC prompts you to specify an account to move those transactions to. Did that not happen for you? > If you follow the double-entry accounting > rule, the related transactions in other accounts should be deleted. I beg to differ. Just deleting an account can't change the past. Those transactions represent events that happened, and deleting the account can't make them unhappen; they must continue to exist *somewhere*. Maybe going to Imbalance is what happens if you don't give GC an account to move them to? What happens when you go into the Imbalance account register, click a line, and click Jump in the icon row at the top? I suspect GC will take you to the other half of that transaction, but it would be nice to confirm that. If that's what happens, then I would say GC behaved as it should. If you really want to delete those transactions (though I don't understand why), you should be able to do it, one by one, in the Imbalance account register. (As far as I know, there's no way to mass delete transactions.) Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com/ _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
