Move Transactions

Jhonnatan Perkins jhonperkins at gmail.com
Mon Sep 13 02:57:24 EDT 2010


Thanks a lot fellas.

Seems like this one by Maf. King was the winner...
I tried it and works like a charm... it's not perfect but is a great
workaround for 80% of my times!!!
Thanks again for your help!! :) :) :)

On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 2:08 AM, Maf. King <maf at chilwell.net> wrote:

> 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.
>
>


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