Changing "Account ID" manually?

[Martin Wolters]

Just for the record: This worked perfectly!

Thanks David.

-M

On 6/7/2012 12:39 AM, David T. wrote:
> If I understand you correctly, you have mapped your online connection 
> to the wrong Gnucash account. Is this correct?
>
> Although I do not use the HCBI features myself, I'll note a thread in 
> July 2009 with the subject "OFX Import" in which we discussed a 
> similar mis-matching on an OFX import. At the time, the solution was 
> to remove the account to which you are mis-matched and then re-create 
> it.* When you do this, the new account will have a different Account 
> ID, and you can then re-match your online account correctly. I suspect 
> this will be the same for HCBI (but I am known to be wrong on many 
> points).
>
> David
>
> * - Note that when you delete an account, Gnucash will give you the 
> option to move all affected transactions into some other account. By 
> creating your new account first and telling Gnucash to use this new 
> account, you will not lose any data.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* Martin Wolters <martin at martinwolters.com>
> *To:* gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org
> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 6, 2012 3:27 PM
> *Subject:* Changing "Account ID" manually?
>
> Hi,
>
> is there a way to change the field "Account ID" (not "account code"!) 
> manually in 2.4.10-1 (Windows)? I am trying to debug an issue that 
> came up in the context of HBCI imports. It looks like I managed to set 
> an "account ID" to the wrong account and now I can't remove it 
> anymore. This is bad when trying to import transactions.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> -M
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