getting rid of accounts

John Ralls jralls at ceridwen.us
Sat Oct 29 16:06:11 EDT 2011


On Oct 29, 2011, at 10:50 AM, fastsnip-bcard at yahoo.com wrote:

> Tried deleting the file you specified. 
> 
> Doing so had no effect on the list of accounts under 'file'. They are still there.
> 
> Must be something else.
> From: John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>
> To: "fastsnip-bcard at yahoo.com" <fastsnip-bcard at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "gnucash-user at gnucash.org" <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2011 8:43 PM
> Subject: Re: getting rid of accounts
> 
> 
> On Oct 26, 2011, at 2:33 PM, fastsnip-bcard at yahoo.com wrote:
> 
> > Moved from Kubuntu 11.04 to Kubuntu 11.10.  
> > 
> > 
> > Booted gnucash and was playing around with new accounts. Now I want to get rid of the new accounts, but can find no way to do so. I deleted the account files, but gnucash insists on keeping the accounts listed under the 'File" topic. If I click on the accounts whose file were deleted, I get an error message that file cannot be found. This is confusing and un-needed. 
> > 
> > 
> > How do I get rid of the accounts that I created to play around with features?
> > 
> 
> The list in the file menu is of recently accessed files. Deleting the file has no effect on it. 
> 
> The list is stored in ~/.gconf/apps/gnucash/history/%gconf.xml. You could probably delete that with no ill effects -- but to be safe, rename it instead, so that if Gnucash complains you can put it back.
> 


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I dunno. It certainly worked for me. (I also found it useful to "touch" the file after deleting it so that Gnucash would show the "new user" dialog.)

Regards,
John Ralls




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