How to change name of "root account"

Robert Smits labour at telus.net
Mon Feb 4 20:50:48 EST 2008


On February 1, 2008 09:40:14 pm Robert Smits wrote:
> On January 31, 2008 01:34:49 am Maf. King wrote:
> > On Thursday 31 Jan 2008, Robert Smits wrote:
> > > Somehow I now keep getting the words Root Account showing up in all my
> > > categories, etc.
> >
> > Hi Robert,
> >
> > IIRC, this happens when you go from GC 2.2.x back to an older version -
> > if you aren't (or can't) going to upgrade to 2.2.x soon, then you
> > probably need to reparent each of your accounts, so that root:assets
> > becomes assets etc.  When root is empty, you can just delete it.
>
> I'm sure you're correct. One of the machines is running 2.05 on an Opensuse
> 10.1 box. All the others are running GC 2.2 on OpenSuse 10.3 boxes. Anyone
> have a current repository for a 10.1 version of Gnucash 2.2? All my old
> ones do not seem to be working, including the ones listed in the Additional
> Yast Repositories page.

Updating to OpenSuse 10.3 and installing Gnucash 2.2 fixed it .

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Robert Smits CEP525G

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