Trading destroyed Gnucash file!

[Mike Alexander]

On Dec 20, 2013, at 5:03 AM, Lukas Haase <lukashaase at gmx.at> 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 think you're being a little dramatic to say that it "destroyed" your file!

If you decide you don't want trading accounts and don't want to just back up to a copy of your file from before you added them, you should be able to get rid of them.  I haven't tried this, so be sure to have a good backup of your file before you try it.  If you delete the trading accounts and tell GnuCash to delete the splits instead of moving them to a different account you might be able to get back to a pre-trading account version of your data.  If you try this, let us know if it works.

A safer way, but more work, would be to open each of the trading accounts in a register and manually delete each of the splits.  Then the accounts will be empty and can be deleted.

         Mike