problem when looking for an account to transfer to

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Alessandro Borgia <ale05 at borgia.bo.it> writes:

> I installed Gnucash 2.2.3 on Windows 2000 NT. Previously I have been 
> using a release under Linux for years.
> I found all my accounts and transactions.
> I opened a cash account to register a withdrawal from an existing bank 
> account, and gnucash suggested me the latest transaction it bore in its 
> history. Needing to change the counterpart in a different account, I 
> found it in the account list and I chosed, but gnucash did not allow me, 
> saying that "account does not exist. Would you create a new account?". I 
> tried to change it with any else account within the full list. The 
> answer was the same for all credit accounts, while the remaining ones 
> worked fine.

I've seen this problem if the account name(s) in question have
the account separator character in them.  This was a problem, for
example, in the german SKR04 account template.

> Trying to restore the account previously suggested by Gnucash itself, 
> the answer was still the same: (i.d. Gnucash does not recognize its own 
> account!).

Can you cut-and-paste (into email) the full name of the account that
gnucash is suggesting?  I'd like to see if it has a double colon.

[snip]
> *  DEBUG <gnc.tests> [enter 
> ../../../../src/import-export/log-replay/gnc-log-replay.c:gnc_file_log_replay()]  
>
> *  DEBUG <gnc.tests> [leave gnc_file_log_replay()]
> *  DEBUG <gnc.tests> [enter 
> ../../../../src/import-export/log-replay/gnc-log-replay.c:gnc_file_log_replay()]  
>
> *  DEBUG <gnc.tests> [leave gnc_file_log_replay()]

Why did you run the Log Replay?

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-derek

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