Find-Replace or bulk movement of transactions to a new account

Daniel Parish parishd at gmail.com
Sat Dec 2 13:01:22 EST 2006


Okay Derek, thanks for the information. Figured it was better to ask before
wearing out my finger.

Daniel

On 12/2/06, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> "Daniel Parish" <parishd at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I have an account that contains dividends from multiple accounts and
> looks
> > like this:
> > Income
> >     Dividends
> >
> > I want change this into several new accounts to better organize things
> so it
> > would look like:
> > Income
> >     Dividends
> >         Account 1
> >         Account 2
> >
> > Question:  What is the best way to move all the transactions in the
> original
> > account structure to the new structure.  I could have sworn I used a
> > Find-Replace function in the past, but I can't find it.  I'm using
> gnucash
> > 2.0.2 under Fedora Core 6.
>
> Unfortunately there is no way to act on multiple transactions at once,
> nor is there a way to Find-Replace, either, I'm afraid.  When you want
> to split up an account you unfortunately have to do it manually, one
> transaction at a time.  Sorry.
>
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Daniel
>
> -derek
>
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