Problem - This account register is read-only

[John Deakin]

David,

thank you for that, it has worked to a degree. Having done what you 
suggested I am now able to enter and save changes, but the warning box 
still appears when the application is initiated. I can get rid of it by 
checking the box "remember the answer and do not ask again" but I wonder 
if there is still an underlying problem.

regards,
John

BTW I should have said it is Gnucash 2.2.9 running on Ubuntu 10.10.

On 10/11/10 00:04, David T. wrote:
> > From the Accounts window, click on the account in question, and click the Edit button. This will bring up the Account properties window, where the aforementioned checkbox lives.
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> HTH,
> David
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> --- On Tue, 11/9/10, John Deakin<john at humanaspects.co.uk>  wrote:
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>> From: John Deakin<john at humanaspects.co.uk>
>> Subject: Problem - This account register is read-only
>> To: gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org
>> Date: Tuesday, November 9, 2010, 10:09 AM
>> Hope you can help.
>>
>> When I open Gnucash I get a warning box with the header as
>> in the e-mail subject. The text in the box is:
>>
>> "This account may not be edited.  If you want to edit
>> transactions in this register, please open the account
>> options and turn off the placeholder checkbox."
>>
>> I cannot find the account option to turn off the
>> placeholder checkbox. What am I missing?
>>
>> regards,
>> John
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