Read only transactions

[Colin Law]

On 13 January 2018 at 17:12, Cliff McDiarmid <cliffhanger at gardener.com> wrote:
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>      >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 <cliffhanger at gardener.com> wrote:
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>>    Hi
>>
>>    I still haven't sorted my Quicken import, getting the correct balances
>>    without a 'balance adjustment' is difficult.
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>
> >Add (or adjust) an appropriate opening balance.
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>>    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.
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>
> >What do you mean by read only transactions?
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> Well I assume, as in Linux, that one cannot write to or change these files.
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> >When you delete an account that contains transactions it should ask you which account you want to move them to.
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> 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.

All the accounts are in one file, so if you have read access to the
file then it is not a permissions issue.  How are you trying to delete
the account and exactly what do you see when you try to delete it?

Colin