Read only transactions

[Colin Law]

What have you specified for Day Threshold for Read-Only Transactions
(red line): in Edit > Preferences > Accounts?

Colin

On 14 January 2018 at 12:04, Cliff McDiarmid <cliffhanger at gardener.com> wrote:
>       Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2018 at 5:22 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 13 January 2018 at 17:12, Cliff McDiarmid <cliffhanger at gardener.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> >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:
>>>
>>> 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.
>
>>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?
>
> I right click on the account and select delete account.   I get a box that
> gives me two options. To move the transactions and to delete them, but the
> delete option is greyed out.  The message in the same box says:  'This
> account contains read-only transactions which may not be deleted'
>
> Cliff
>