Link account balance to an entry in another account?

[Colin Law]

On 20 April 2015 at 16:00, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
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>> On Apr 20, 2015, at 7:36 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> AC <gnucash at acarver.net> writes:
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>>> I don't think that is working quite like I want.  I don't want to be in
>>> the main account list when I'm working the scratch, I'd rather be in the
>>> scratch ledger.
>>
>> Yeah, umm...  If you want to play with things then you can just be sure
>> to "Quit without saving".
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> But only with the XML backend! The SQL backend writes every change immediately, so there is no way to quit without saving.

And of course if you do not have auto save enabled.

Colin