Can't delete Imbalance account

[Chris Good]

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> Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2015 06:39:54 +0000
> From: Michael Hendry <hendry.michael at gmail.com>
> To: Edward Doolittle <edward.doolittle at gmail.com>
> Cc: gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> Subject: Re: Can't delete Imbalance account
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>> On 17 Dec 2015, at 02:02, Edward Doolittle <edward.doolittle at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Michael,
>> 
>> I delete my Imbalance and Orphan accounts all the time. They just get
>> re-created the next time they're needed. I take the presence of an
>> Imbalance or Orphan account as a sign that some transaction needs further
>> attention. I fix the transaction then delete the Imbalance or Orphan
>> account.
>> 
>> Edward
> 
> I?ve never deleted these accounts, and thought it very odd (perhaps slightly obsessional?) to do so when Edward posted this message. It hadn?t even occurred to me that it would be possible to delete them.
> 
> Up to now, I have been looking out for non-zero values in Imbalance or Orphan as flags for errors. Now that I think more deeply about it, I realise that it?s possible to have a pair of errors with equal and opposite values, which would result in the balance of one of these accounts being zero.
> 
> Perhaps I should include the periodic inspection of Imbalance and Orphan in my routine, and their deletion if they contain no entries.
> 
> Michael
> 
> 

Another suggestion:

Don't delete them, but change the colour of the Imbalance and Orphan accounts so that acts as a visual reminder to check the balance is zero when viewing the accounts tab.

Regards,
Chris Good