Debit a 'Checking Account' Only

[John P. New]

On Monday, July 19, 2010 09:38:26 am James Kerr wrote:
> > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "b4wt"
> > > <miztiik+gnucash at gmail.com> To: <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> > > Sent: Monday, July 19, 2010 6:05 PM
> > > Subject: Debit a 'Checking Account' Only
> > > 
> > >> I have created a expenses account and made lot of entires with
> > >> "Imbalance"
> > >> as the debit account [ Probably another newbie mistake ]. Now i
> > >> want all these entries to be debited from another account say
> > >> 'Checking Account'
> > >> 
> > >> Is there any simpler way of doing this rather than manually
> > >> modifying each
> > >> transaction, Say all transactions under this account debit from
> > >> 'Checking Account'
> 
> If you delete the Imbalance Account you will be asked to which account
> the transactions should be moved. Before doing so, make certain that
> all the  Imbalance items actually do belong in the checking account.
> (I've never done this, but I think it will work. Make sure that you
> have a backup of your file "just in case".)
> 
> Jim

I just tried this in 2.2.9 by deleting a test account with one transaction in 
it, and GNUCash transferred the transaction into the target account.

I agree with the backup recommendation, though, just in case.

John New