Move Transactions

[David T.]

For what it's worth, I summarized what I understand to be the options available on http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Using_GnuCash. I added a new section there ("Register Tips"), and put the methods there.

David

--- On Sun, 9/12/10, Jhonnatan Perkins <jhonperkins at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Jhonnatan Perkins <jhonperkins at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Move Transactions
> To: "Maf. King" <maf at chilwell.net>
> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Date: Sunday, September 12, 2010, 11:57 PM
> 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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