[GNC-dev] How to start fresh

[Robert Fewell]

Eric,
The only way I can think of is this but make sure you have a backup of your
existing work.

1) Make sure you are saving xml files and under Edit->Preferences->General
compression is not set.
2) Use File->Export->'Export Accounts' to create a new file with the
accounts.
3) Open the new file in Gnucash and create a single dummy customer and save.
4) Open the original file in a text editor and do a search for
'gnc:GncCustomer'.
    You should find one line with the customer count, copy this line to the
new file opened in a text editor.
    And then you will find a large section of customers, copy the whole
section and replace the dummy customer with it.
5) Open the new file in Gnucash and check under
Business->Customer->'Customer Overview' that you have all your customers.
6) On the Accounts tab, do a Check and Repair which is under 'Actions'

If this is OK, then you could search for 'gnc:GncVendor'

This is not really supported but as the file is empty should be OK.
Do not be tempted to copy other bits as some parts are linked to others in
a complex way.

Regards,
Bob



On Wed, 29 Jun 2022 at 17:50, Eric Hammond <eric at jehammond.net> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I set up Gnucash as best possible by extracting what I could from my
> crashed Quicken, and many Excel spreadsheets. And 6 months of work.
> I got all the info in, but not working properly.
> I want to start fresh, almost.
> I have created clean CSV files for the AR and AP; and transaction files to
> fill in the bank ledgers.
> What I need is to clean Gnucash of everything Except the account tree,
> vendor and customer database.
> (The exported version of vendor and customer data leaves out everything
> but name and ID.)
>
> Any ideas on how to do this, or how to not need to do this are appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Eric
>
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>    1. Re:  Dummy lines in dialog-commodity.glade; Unification of
>       "Namespace" and "Type" (Robert Fewell)
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> Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2022 17:23:03 +0100
> From: Robert Fewell <14ubobit at gmail.com>
> To: "Frank H. Ellenberger" <frank.h.ellenberger at gmail.com>
> Cc: gnucash-devel <gnucash-devel at gnucash.org>
> Subject: Re: [GNC-dev] Dummy lines in dialog-commodity.glade;
>         Unification of "Namespace" and "Type"
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> Frank,
> I think those dummy entries can be removed, they were default entries in
> list stores so maybe in the past glade list stores needed them but I do not
> think so now but will check.
>
> As for 'Type', in dialog-commodity.glade it is used twice which could be
> changed to 'N_amespace' and also change existing entry in
> dialog-price.glade to match so accelerator keys do not conflict. The second
> dialog is used when in the account tree and create a 'New Account' with
> 'Account Type' of 'Stock' and presses the 'Select...' button on
> 'Security/currency'.
>
> Regards,
> Bob
>
> On Tue, 28 Jun 2022 at 02:33, Frank H. Ellenberger <
> frank.h.ellenberger at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Bob,
> >
> > I just stumbled over at least 2 lines with ' translatable="yes">Dummy
> > '
> > Are they really somewhere displayed to the user or can we drop the
> > translatable flag?
> >
> > Do you remember similar cases, perhaps after looking in a dictionary
> > as described under 'Recycle already existing strings in
> > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/I18N#General_Thoughts?
> >
> > While working on the docs. we found in
> >
> > https://code.gnucash.org/docs/de/gnucash-help/tool-security-edit.html#
> > tool-commodity different labels "Namespace" in the database window and
> > "Type" in this dialog for the same element. IMHO we should unify this
> > to nammespace. I do rurrently not remember, where the second part of
> > the glade file is used.
> >
> > Regards
> > Frank
> >
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