Template Security Type

[David Carlson]

On 3/24/2012 7:21 AM, David Carlson wrote:
> On 3/23/2012 11:41 AM, Marco Cazzola-Gonsenheim wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I recently created a security and mistakenly assigned it to the
>> "Template" security type and can no longer edit or remove said security
>> through the security Editor. I am on 2.4.10. How can I delete it out?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> -Marco Cazzola
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> 
> This is a good question.  On December 23, 2008, Charles Day stated in
> the GnuCash User mail list that it was a known bug for this security
> type to appear in the list.
> 
> However, I was not able to find such a bug in GnuCash bugzilla, so
> perhaps this is a figment of our collective imagination.
> 
> But it also appears in the June 24 2009 GnuCash IRC logs, where the
> standard answer is given to edit the datafile manually to remove the
> offending data.
> 
> I recall that this question has been asked other times, by myself as
> well, but I do not recall any other more satisfactory answer ever being
> given.
> 
> Can someone find the original bug report and escalate it so that it does
> not languish for another four years?  I am sure that the fix is trivial.
> 
> Thank you
> 
> David Carlson
> 
> 
> 
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By the way, I again tried to edit my data file, but the results so far
have been disastrous.  Now that I have a 64 bit os and 6 gigs of ram, I
can finally open the file with wordpad, but what do I do next?

David C
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