Starting "Fresh" ?

[Derek Atkins]

"Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET" <ml at t-b-o-h.net> writes:

>> 
>> Quoting "Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET" <ml at t-b-o-h.net>:
>> 
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > 	I'd like to take the accounts+vendors I created last year and
>> > start fresh for the new one with no transactions. I exported the
>> > accounts, but the vendors weren't part of it. Is there some way to do
>> > this?
>> 
>> Nope.
>> 
>> The best thing you could do is make a backup copy of your data file,
>> uncompress it, and then hand-edit and remove all the transactions
>> by hand.
>> 
>> Sorry.
>> 
> 	No worries. I realize this is a "nonstandard thing" to do.
>
> 	What I ended up doing was exporting accounts, and exporting to 
> QSF the Vendors. I entered one vendor into my blank accounts file.
> zcat'd the results to another file, figured out the format of the
> vendor section, and then wrote a quickie perl script to reformat the 
> QSF into what was expected. Opened the file up new, and everything
> I wanted was there.
>
> 	THAT being said, I did run into one problem... When I
> go to add a new Vendor, it has been assigning it a number already
> in the system. I couldn't for the life of me figure out where the
> system kept track of the next vendor number to assign.

That's because you didn't migrate the book counters into the new
file.

> 	I also ran into something else, that was entirely my own
> doing. I entered an invoice under "Dominon" instead of "DirecTV".
> Since the vendor is uneditable, zcat'd the file, found the entry,
> and swapped the guid for the guid of the correct one. It appears
> to have worked perfectly, but wanted to know if there were any
> gotchas I might want to know about.

Eh?  You can certainly change the vendor.  Click on the "Edit"
button in the toolbar.

> 	I realize I'm playing VERY fast and VERY loose with things
> here, and I'm prepared for what may come of it. This is just for
> a rental house where all the information is for my personal use.
> All the real "Need for the gubberment" numbers are provided by
> outside agencies.
>
> 		Thanks, Tuc

-derek

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