global delete of transactions

Josh Sled jsled at asynchronous.org
Fri May 6 11:12:55 EDT 2005


On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 17:05 +0200, Arthur Gregson wrote:
> is it possible to delete previous years transactions from all accounts 
> globally.....

No; batch transaction manipulation is not supported.

> I know i can use find(in tools menu) to bring up these records - but do i have 
> to delete each record manually - or is there another way to do this

Editing the data file.  The transactions of interest will be easily
discernable.  If you're handy with XSLT and/or a scripting language it
shouldn't be too hard.

     NOTE this is NOT recommended or supported!!! Keep data file 
     backups.

...jsled

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