Can't delete a transaction

[Jason Yamada-Hanff]

It is true that I can't delete transactions that have been imported... but
that is true whether they are phantom or not and whether I restart GnuCash
or not.  But even transactions that I enter manually won't delete.  It's
like the delete transaction button is a dummy button when I have a
transaction selected.

On 8/19/07, David Reiser <dbreiser at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> 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
> --
> David Reiser
> dbreiser at earthlink.net
>
>