Removal of unnecessary listed Account names

John Ralls jralls at ceridwen.us
Thu Nov 9 17:11:41 EST 2017


> On Nov 9, 2017, at 11:56 AM, Cliff Williams <clifton26w at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Gents
> 
> After a couple of weeks using GnuCash I made a mistake and renamed some 
> of my accounts. In fact in most cases just changed the name from 
> low-case to upper-case so that I could easily identify the headings. 
> What's happened now is that when I import new data and begin to match 
> the incoming sub accounts with mine in GnuCash I now have two sets of 
> headings to sort through, one in upper-case the other in lower.  The 
> issue also appears when manually inputting or changing a transaction; In 
> my case the dropdown list in account shows, one name in upper-case the 
> other in lower.
> 
> Is there a way of deleting all the lower case account headings to make 
> the importing of data easier.  I do recognise that this is a short term 
> issue as over time the accounts will automatically match the headings 
> correctly but it is a bit of a pain at the moment.
> 
> I've not been able to find any related information in your support 
> documentation.
> 
> Any assistance would be much appreciated.

You filed a bug[1] on this and I answered there. In future please use one or the other.

Regards,
John Ralls

[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=790141





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