[GNC] Changing account tree on large database

Cricket Onebit cricketbeautiful at gmail.com
Thu Apr 25 16:16:41 EDT 2019


Hello,

I'm preparing to convert 14,000 transactions from Quicken. It's a bit
overwhelming, and I've put it off for years.

1. Can I move child accounts to other parents, and promote / demote them? I
want to make some major changes, mostly Clothes-kid1 to kid1-clothes. It's
one more excuse for delaying the move.

2. Is there a length limit for descriptions, memos, notes, etc? I might use
keywords in those fields to duplicate Quicken's tags. A quick experiment
shows I can report on "transactions containing #tagone." Yay!

3. Is there a problem if I have transactions under each level of account,
such as Car, Car-Ford, and Car-Ford-Accident? I vaguely remember reading
I'd have to change some report settings.

Just point me to the right bit of the manual if the details are there. It's
a good manual but there's a lot in it.

++++

New eyes found:

The link to search Nabble is broken.
https://lists.gnucash.org/search/?idxinfo=gnucash-user . (I got there from
https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user .)

(The link to Google gave posts from 2018, even though there are more recent
ones with the word "Quicken". Not something GNUCash has any control over.)

Thanks!




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