[GNC] GC keeps prompting me to create an account and it just won't away

[David T.]

It looks as if Art has entered descriptive information into an account field. GnuCash will always ask if you want to create the nonexistent account (that’s a feature, BTW). Based on the sample string, you’d need to tab out of the account after “bananas”, put “Hot dog” in a memo (presumably), and the calculation into the amount field. Although, why you’d put hot dogs in an account for bananas is beyond me.

David T.

> On Jun 13, 2018, at 10:07 AM, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Here is a tip.  When that (...) does not exist ... prompt appears, if you
> do not know which transaction triggered it, click on the red x button to
> close the file.  this will bring up a prompt asking if you want to save
> your changes to a certain named window, which may be an account name or
> search results, for example.  This will help you find the offending
> transaction.  Once you have the offending transaction in focus, delete all
> the characters in the account field. then you will get a chance to exit the
> transaction abandoning all changes.  Now you can save the file and continue
> entering data or close the file.
> 
> David C
> 
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 9:29 PM, Art via gnucash-user <
> gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
> 
>> I must've hit the wrong button somewhere because I keep getting this
>> pop-up, Account ExpenseAccounts:Food:fruits:bananasHot dog 1.99*2 does
>> not exist, would you like to create it, Yes/No?To which I answer, "No" but
>> the pop-up just shows up again!I finally said, "Yes", then canceled the
>> thing. That seems to have fixed the problem.
>> I'm running GC 3.0 Build 2.6.17b-2765-g70e636646+(2018-04-01) under
>> Ubuntu 17.10.This version has sticky fields. I.e., whenever I duplicate
>> transactions, I have to click on the original so I can overwrite the text.
>> Thanks,Art
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