transaction already being edited in another register

[Jacob Wegelin]

Thank you for this suggestion (technically a question but in fact a helpful suggestion). I tried entering a transaction in a different account and it worked fine. I closed gnucash, reopened, went back to the account where I had the original difficulty, and was able to enter the transaction just fine.

Jake

On Thu, 11 Nov 2010, Dennis Powless wrote:

> Was this a one time thing, or does this happen every time you attempt
> to enter a transaction?
>
> Dennis
>
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 12:44 PM, wegelin <jacobwegelin at fastmail.fm> wrote:
>>
>> I installed gnucash today, exported several accounts from Quicken as QIF
>> files, exited Quicken, imported the QIF files into gnucash. Then, in
>> gnucash, in a credit card account that I had just imported, I attempted to
>> enter a new transaction. I was able to type in most of the info (in the
>> fields marked Data, Description, Transfer, Charge). At that point the cursor
>> was in the Charge field (I had just typed in the dollar amount) and the
>> Balance field showed 0.00 (although the balance immediately above was
>> nonzero). When I tried to complete the transaction by hitting Enter,
>> however, I got the following popup message: "This transaction is already
>> being edited in another register. Please finish editing it there first."
>>
>> The same thing happened when I hit Tab.
>>
>> As soon as I hit "close" on that popup, the entire transaction, which I had
>> just painstakingly entered, was deleted.
>>
>> What is this about? I had no other accounts open in gnucash or anywhere else
>> for that matter. How do I simply enter a transaction?
>>
>> Jacob Wegelin
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