MS Money income category converted to expense account when importe d t o Gnucash

[pfwoolverton at juno.com]

Curiosity  question -  

What caused  the  MS Money Income category  to  be  converted  to a Gnucash  Expense account?

MS Money 3.0 on Win XP  on a virtual  machine  in Win 10
GnuCash  2.6.16 on Win 10


---------- Original Message ----------
From: Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Cc: "pfwoolverton at juno.com" <pfwoolverton at juno.com>, stepbystepfarm at dialup4less.com
Subject: Re: MS Money income category converted to expense account when importe d t o Gnucash
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2017 10:20:33 +0200

On dinsdag 27 juni 2017 02:53:14 CEST pfwoolverton at juno.com wrote:
> Michael, thanks for the suggestion.
> 
> Edit Account shows the Account Type as Expense.
> GnuCash shows: The account contains Transactions.  Changing this option is
> not possible.

Indeed. This restriction was introduced in gnucash 2.6.16. It turns out to be 
way too strict and had been relaxed quite a bit again in the upcoming 2.6.17. 
There you will be able to change the account type again, even if there are 
already splits in that account.

If you can't wait for this release (which is due next weekend), you can also 
install gnucash 2.6.15 instead to fix the account type.

Regards,

Geert