Read only transactions

Colin Law clanlaw at gmail.com
Sun Jan 14 07:27:00 EST 2018


Sorry, it is in File > Properties > Accounts.  Best left at zero
unless you want earlier transactions to be protected.

Colin

On 14 January 2018 at 12:15, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>>


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