Hi all, Thank you for your responses. I wasn't thinking on the reply all I apologize for that.
David T if you could send once more how you set up your accounts for the flex card it would be much appreciated. I don't know what happened to the original one, but I can't find it. In google mail I set up labels for Gnucash and I just can't find yours for some reason. Thank you for your time. Regards, Larry On Wed, May 27, 2026 at 12:32 AM Adrien Monteleone < [email protected]> wrote: > Indeed. Accounts which contain transactions and are later changed to > placeholders retain those transactions. > > I think the case of placeholders sometimes getting new transactions was > either from Scheduled Transactions or Imports. But I seem to recall that > was considered a bugs, and is now fixed. Though I could be mistaken. > > Regards, > Adrien > > On 5/26/26 10:36 PM, David T. via gnucash-user wrote: > > And, since we're in a clarifying mode, I'll note that placeholder > accounts most certainly can contain transactions. You just can't (generally > speaking*) add new transactions to a placeholder account. > > > > I have dozens of placeholder accounts with transactions in them-- for > example, accounts that have been closed. Setting an account as a > placeholder ensures that the account doesn't display in transfer account > drop down windows. > > > > David T. > > > > * I've encountered corner cases where an action created a transaction in > a placeholder account. I don't recall these at this moment. > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > _______________________________________________ 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.
