Can't Paste Transactions that Were Copied/Cut

[James Muchow]

On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Maf. King <maf at chilwell.net> wrote:
> On Saturday 25 Feb 2012 17:25:28 James Muchow wrote:
>  <SNIP>
>> followed by Paste. But not all. For example, it will not be possible
>> to move a transaction from one register to another; it must be
>> cut/deleted and then re-entered.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>
> Hi Jim,
>
> No direct ideas to make paste work again for you.  I do recall that error
> message, but I can't remeber what triggered it.  Closing the register and re-
> opening fixed it, ISTR.  I think it has gone away in the 2.4 series.

Tried this. No joy. As I recall your fix is in reference to another variation
of this popup box error in which closing the register sort of made sense.
Not really so much here, but regardless, it didn't work either.

> To move a txn  from one account to another, why not just edit the split to
> change the transfer account?

Ooh, that's not a bad idea. Works too. Between the Duplicate and your
suggestion, I think most, if not all, the cases in which I use Copy/Cut are
handled. Thanks - still annoying to have to create work arounds tho'.