Move Transactions

[Jhonnatan Perkins]

Great man, thanks!
This is what I love about Open Source!!!

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 2:31 PM, David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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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