File Format Issue

[Ron Morse]

Do a backup first. It looks to me like even if GnuCash would let you do
it, the deletion of a top level account should take all of its subs with
it. 

RBM


On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 10:31 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> 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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