Read only transactions

[Cliff McDiarmid]

        >Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2018 at 4:58 PM
   >From: "Colin Law" <clanlaw at gmail.com>
   >To: "Cliff McDiarmid" <cliffhanger at gardener.com>
   .Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
   >Subject: Re: Read only transactions
   >On 10 January 2018 at 19:21, Cliff McDiarmid
   <[1]cliffhanger at gardener.com> wrote:

        Hi
        I still haven't sorted my Quicken import, getting the correct
     balances
        without a 'balance adjustment' is difficult.


   >Add (or adjust) an appropriate opening balance.

        But the question is:  How do i delete an account when it contains
     read
        only transactions?  I know i can move the transactions elsewhere,
     but I
        need to delete the accounts.


   >What do you mean by read only transactions?

   Well I assume, as in Linux, that one cannot write to or change these
   files.

   >When you delete an account that contains transactions it should ask
   you which account you want to move them to.

   Yes, that's right it does.  But it won't let me delete the account
   altogether, because the account contains read only transactions.
   Other accounts I've deleted have given one the option of moving the
   files as you say or deleting them entirely.

   thanks

   Cliff

References

   1. mailto:cliffhanger at gardener.com