Move Transactions

[Maf. King]

On Monday 06 September 2010 05:59:51 John Ralls wrote:
> On Sep 5, 2010, at 9:18 PM, Jhonnatan Perkins wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > Is there any way in 2.2.9 to move transactions in a given account to
> > another one?
> > It beats me as I can't find an easy way to do this, except by manual copy
> > & paste... but I need a MASSIVE move :)
> >
> > Thanks for your time !!!
>
> In general, no. You must visit each transaction that you want to move in
> "split mode" and change the account on the split to the correct one.
>
> There's a special case where all (or almost all) of the transactions in the
> "old" account must be moved and the "new" account is either empty or does
> not yet exist. In that case you can edit the "old" account and turn it into
> the "new" account (delete the "new" account first if it already exists). If
> it was a "nearly all" case, then you can create a new "old" account and
> move the appropriate transaction splits to it.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls

Hi,

I believe (and I haven't tried this recently) that if you delete the "old" 
account, GC pops up a dialog asking you if you want to delete those txns or 
move them to another account.  It might require that the old and destination 
accounts share a (grand)parent account, can't remember - but if so, it is 
easy to reparent the old account before deleting it.

HTH,
Maf.