File Format Issue

[David T.]

Just a quick question, Derek. Both you and another poster suggested reparenting
each account. I wonder whether it would be possible to delete the root account
*first* and tell GC to move the contents to the top level (like one can do when
one deletes an account that has transactions in it)?

Just thinking aloud here; I'm not on 2.2 and I haven't got this problem...

David

--- Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote:

> Josh Sled <jsled at asynchronous.org> writes:
> 
> > I'm not 100% familiar with the way (the feature relating to) the Root
> Account
> > was implemented.
> 
> It's the replacement for the AccountGroup.
> 
> > I think if you hand-edit your data-file to remove this Root account (and
> all
> > references to it's GUID, specifically the <act:parent> refs in the other
> > top-level accounts) it should work.  If you feel this adventurous, be sure
> to
> > test the change on a throw-away copy of your data file first.
> 
> No need to do that; in 2.0.x just reparent the accounts back to the
> top level and then delete the Root Account.  But this is an
> "incompatibility" between 2.2.x and 2.0.x.  2.2.x will always reparent
> your accounts.
> 
> -derek
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