File Format Issue

[Derek Atkins]

I don't know if that would work.  Feel free to test it :)

-derek

"David T." <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> writes:

> 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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