"Orphaned Gains" account

[Laura Lincoln]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Ian Merrithew <ian.merrithew at ieee.org>wrote:

> Is there any way to change the account name of the "Orphaned Gains"
> account,
> or an option for the account to use when scrubbing lots?
>
> I decided tonight to try renaming it to "Capital Gains", then scrubbed lots
> in
> one of my old mutual fund accounts, thinking Gnucash would be clever enough
> to pick up on the existence of that account and use it. Nope. It
> recreated "Orphaned Gains" instead. Left me with a little mess to clean up
> :P
>

The "orphaned" accounts are system generated. The only way that I have found
to get rid of them is to clean out the transactions that landed in those
accounts. The accounts won't disappear but at least there won't be any
transactions in those accounts.