Read only transactions

[Colin Law]

I think you said that you had already made sure that neither hidden
nor placeholder are set for the account you are trying to edit. If you
can identify one of the transactions then check that the other account
in that transaction is also not hidden or placeholder.

Colin

On 14 January 2018 at 15:14, Cliff McDiarmid <cliffhanger at gardener.com> wrote:
>
>
> Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2018 at 12:27 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
>>Sorry, it is in File > Properties > Accounts. Best left at zero
>>unless you want earlier transactions to be protected.
>
> Yes that's what mine is set to, i.e. zero.
>
> Where is this read only nonsense coming from then?
>
> Cliff
>
>
> 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
>>>