Can't delete a transaction

[Doug Laidlaw]

On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 08:33:13 am Jason Yamada-Hanff wrote:
> 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
>
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I had that problem for a while with 2.0.5.  It seemed to be related to 
transactions imported from Quicken for Windows via a QIF file.  Uninstalling 
and reinstalling didn't help.  But since going back from 2.1 to 2.0.5 and 
having to re-create my file from scratch (because I hadn't kept any backups, 
or they were too incomplete,) I have had no problems in that regard.

Doug.
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