Deleting old transactions and invoices

[Geert Janssens]

On Tuesday 05 January 2016 11:59:24 Axel Essbaum wrote:
> (one more try ;-)
> 
> I am running GC 2.4.11 under OSX 10.8.  I have been using GC to track
> the transactions for my businesses since 2009.
> 
> How can I best remove all income and invoices from two clients for the
> past 6 years?
> 
> If I search my transaction descriptions for the clients I find a
> series of invoices and payments.  Can I simply delete all of these
> and then go adjust my Close Books transactions each year to correctly
> zero the corresponding income accounts?
> 
> Or does something happen under the covers with invoicing or books
> closing that will be screwed up if I do this?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> - Axel
> 
> --
> Axel Essbaum
> axel at essbaum.com

Hi,

Unfortunately you can't delete invoices. It's not implemented.

Also you won't be able to simply delete the transactions associated with them either. 
GnuCash prevents any direct changes to the transactions directly related to invoices.

Cleaning up history was not considered when the invoice feature was added.

Sorry about that.

As a clumsy alternative you could unpost all invoice you no longer need (after deleting all 
payments associated to them).

Regards,

Geert