transaction already being edited in another register

[Dennis Powless]

Was this a one time thing, or does this happen every time you attempt
to enter a transaction?

Dennis

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 12:44 PM, wegelin <jacobwegelin at fastmail.fm> wrote:
>
> I installed gnucash today, exported several accounts from Quicken as QIF
> files, exited Quicken, imported the QIF files into gnucash. Then, in
> gnucash, in a credit card account that I had just imported, I attempted to
> enter a new transaction. I was able to type in most of the info (in the
> fields marked Data, Description, Transfer, Charge). At that point the cursor
> was in the Charge field (I had just typed in the dollar amount) and the
> Balance field showed 0.00 (although the balance immediately above was
> nonzero). When I tried to complete the transaction by hitting Enter,
> however, I got the following popup message: "This transaction is already
> being edited in another register. Please finish editing it there first."
>
> The same thing happened when I hit Tab.
>
> As soon as I hit "close" on that popup, the entire transaction, which I had
> just painstakingly entered, was deleted.
>
> What is this about? I had no other accounts open in gnucash or anywhere else
> for that matter. How do I simply enter a transaction?
>
> Jacob Wegelin
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