ROOT Type accounts

Colin Law clanlaw at gmail.com
Mon Oct 31 04:16:44 EDT 2016


On 31 October 2016 at 06:39, David T. via gnucash-devel <
gnucash-devel at gnucash.org> wrote:

> OK, so I deleted these entries in the file. Now, when I open the file in
> GnuCash, the progress bar does a little "zippy back and forth” thing while
> loading the user data that I haven’t seen before. Also, there is new empty
> top level account with a guid as its name. This guid doesn’t appear in
> accounts, splits, or transactions, however. Not sure what to do differently.
>

If the extraneous root accounts were not doing any harm then I would just
leave them and not worry about it.

Colin


>
> Maybe it’s not important?
>
> David
>
> > On Oct 29, 2016, at 5:54 PM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Saturday 29 October 2016 17:33:40 David T. wrote:
> >> OK, so I opened the SQLite file in GnuCash, went to the COA and
> >> selected Check and Repair All. No change, unfortunately.
> >>
> > Yes, that's what I meant - check & repair should be the place to handle
> > this, but it currently doesn't.
> >
> > I see the way I replied to you could be interpreted differently. Sorry
> > about that.
> >
> >> I will try removing the rows manually and see what happens! This, of
> >> course is on a copy of my real data file. ;)
> >>
> > Wise, very wise :)
> >
> > Geert
>
>
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