Trading destroyed Gnucash file!

[David Carlson]

On 12/20/2013 4:03 AM, Lukas Haase wrote:
> Hi,
>
> About one month ago, I checked "Use Trading Accounts" in the settings.
>
> I was not sure what this was for and I did not see any changes.
>
> Now I realized that everything is messed up: There is a new account
> "Trading" and many (all?) of my transactions contain stuff like
> Trading:CURRENCY:USD, Trading:CURRENCY:EUR.
>
> Can I revert this somehow?
>
> I have all *.log files left.
>
> Is it possible to
>
> a) Revert a particular *.log file (the one who created all these
> unwanted split transactions etc)
>
> or
>
> b) Automatically import a particular log file?
>
>
> I have backups for my data, so I may be able to find the gnucash file
> for the particular date. Then I could re-import the changes I made since
> then. I'd prefer (a).
>
>
> Thanks
> Luke
>
>
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I do not think that everything is actually messed up.  I think it may be
providing "Too Much Information" for your taste.  I have not tested it
myself, but it is on my wishlist when I have time.  Perhaps other users
have worked with it enough to be able to tell you how to suppress it
relatively safely.

David C