Duplicating Accounts?

[Steve Isenberg]

Adrien, that was it.I exported the accounts to a CSV. Edited the file, removed all accounts but the one I wanted to duplicate. Edited those account lines with the new name and imported back into GNUCash. BAM! Just what I was after. :)

Thanks much!Steve
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Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2018 14:38:33 -0600
From: Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at gmail.com>
To: "gnucash-user at gnucash.org" <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Subject: Re: Duplicating Accounts?
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I thought perhaps the route to go would be create a new hierarchy template,
but it seems that is not possible, at least from within the software. Then
I looked at exporting and importing an account tree, but again, while
export is possible, I don't see how to import a partial tree.

Best of luck.

Regards,
Adrien

On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 3:54 PM, Steve Isenberg via gnucash-user <
gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:

>
> I figured out how to do this once before and now for the life of me I cannot
> remember. I am trying to duplicate an expense account and all of its
> sub-accounts, with a new name of course, and zero balances.
>
> This is not a transfer of funds and I'm not duplicating transactions. It is
> basically a copy of one account hierarchy to a new expense account hierarchy.
>
> Anyone remember how to do this without creating a new account and eight new
> sub-accounts?
>
> Thanks
>