Re: [GNC] Removing Orphan components from transaction

2019-11-18 Thread Adrien Monteleone
True. I’ve used that method many times as well. (and mentioned it in my other post) But you can’t use the ‘delete split’ option in the right-click menu, sorry if I wasn’t clear about that. Regards, Adrien > On Nov 18, 2019 w47d322, at 12:04 PM, D wrote: > > If you delete every data element

Re: [GNC] Removing Orphan components from transaction

2019-11-18 Thread D via gnucash-user
If you delete every data element in the anchor split, and TAB of the end, the split will be deleted, and the transaction will disappear from the register. I've been using this technique for years to clear out the Imbalance-USD account when items appear there. D. On November 18, 2019, at 11:25

Re: [GNC] Removing Orphan components from transaction

2019-11-18 Thread Adrien Monteleone
> On Nov 18, 2019 w47d322, at 11:23 AM, David Carlson > wrote: > > > You can’t delete a split that is for the account in the current register. > (that is what anchors it to that account) > > Yes, you can delete an anchor split and that is what I noted in my previous > message. I called it

Re: [GNC] Removing Orphan components from transaction

2019-11-18 Thread David Carlson
On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 10:50 AM Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > > > > On Nov 17, 2019 w47d321, at 11:14 PM, Peter West wrote: > > > > I found a transaction in Orphan-AUD. It was a split, and the Orphan > component was zero. Maybe I had forgotten part of the split,

Re: [GNC] Removing Orphan components from transaction

2019-11-18 Thread Adrien Monteleone
> On Nov 17, 2019 w47d321, at 11:14 PM, Peter West wrote: > > I found a transaction in Orphan-AUD. It was a split, and the Orphan component > was zero. Maybe I had forgotten part of the split, and then corrected it, > leaving nothing in the Orphan-AUD account. > > I wanted to remove this

Re: [GNC] Removing Orphan components from transaction

2019-11-17 Thread David Carlson
Peter, You [re]discovered a quirk of GnuCash that it is possible to leave a transaction having an uncommitted pending edit, then edit the 'home' split line from a different account of the same transaction by deleting the 'home' account. GnuCash then automagically commits the edit and it

Re: [GNC] Removing Orphan components from transaction

2019-11-17 Thread David Cousens
Peter If you open the Asset register in auto split register ( View->Autosplit register), select the transaction and then right click on the split to the Orphan AUD account you will get a popup menu one of the entries of which is Delete Split. If the split to Orphan AUD was the only split other

[GNC] Removing Orphan components from transaction

2019-11-17 Thread Peter West
I found a transaction in Orphan-AUD. It was a split, and the Orphan component was zero. Maybe I had forgotten part of the split, and then corrected it, leaving nothing in the Orphan-AUD account. I wanted to remove this transaction from Orphan-AUD. As I recall, I tried to remove the Orphan line