Can't delete a transaction

[David Reiser]

When are you trying to delete transactions? There are instances where  
an import operation leaves phantom transactions visible in the  
register (start the import, tell gnucash to ignore certain  
transactions, finish the import) -- transactions appear on the screen  
that aren't really in the datafile (the supposedly ignored imports).   
If you say to yourself, 'hey, wait a minute, that transaction wasn't  
supposed to be imported,' and try to delete it, the deletion will  
have no effect on the register display. If you close gnucash and  
reopen it, the phantom transactions no longer appear in the register.

I can't make this happen 100% of the time, so it's pretty hard to  
nail it down as a bug. And I'm generally using some really old gnome  
bits, so I might have an odd dependency interaction.

Otherwise, the Delete  button on the toolbar ought to delete either  
the selected transaction or the selected split -- possibly with the  
do-you-really-want-to-delete-this(split | transaction)? warning  
before actually performing the deletion.


On 19 Aug 2007, at 2:50:27 PM, Jason Yamada-Hanff wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have been using GnuCash 2.0.5 on Gentoo for the past few months,  
> but have
> been having a heck of a time trying to delete transactions.   
> Perhaps I am
> doing something wrong.
>
> When I select a transaction and hit "delete transaction", nothing  
> happens...
> no feedback, no changes.  I would expect that the transaction would  
> have
> been deleted.  I can select a split and delete that (or at least get
> feedback on why I cannot), but deleting a transaction itself just  
> doesn't
> work.
>
> What am I doing wrong?  I am assuming this is not a bug and I just  
> don't
> grok the interface here.  Thanks for the help!
>
> -Jason
>
Dave
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