Help requested - delete a transaction

John Ralls jralls at ceridwen.us
Fri Oct 20 22:47:43 EDT 2017



> On Oct 20, 2017, at 6:17 PM, Herndon Elliott <alabamatoy at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Some of my transactions have been somehow marked "read only" and when I try
> to delete them, the app wont let me.  How do I remove the "read only"
> setting?
> 
> Same thing for an account, if it has read only transactions, the account
> wont delete.  The user guide does not seem to have any info about read only
> transactions.

If it’s only some transactions you’ve probably set a day threshold on the book. Go to File>Properties. It’s on the account tab. Set it to 0 if you don’t want to make some transactions read-only.

Regards,
John Ralls



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