[GNC] Can't delete security

[rsbrux]

@Derek,
Many thanks for your advice. Believe me, I've tried. Unfortunately, it 
is a mystery to me why any account should still be using this security. 
As mentioned below, I have deleted both the initial transaction and the 
investment account I created for the security.  I don't know why any 
other account should reference it.

@anyone,
How can I find out which account GnuCash thinks is using this security? 
It occurred to me that I might be able to find out by doing a text 
search of the GnuCash file, as I have understood that it is XML. 
However, I cannot open it in mousepad, as it complains that the encoding 
is not UTF-8.
Any hints as to how to proceed would be most welcome.

-----Original Message-----
From: Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2019 4:46 PM
To: rsbrux via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Cc: rsbrux <rsbrux at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [GNC] Can't delete security

Hi,

rsbrux via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> writes:

> Because of the well-known difficulties associated with assigning the
> correct currency to a security, I need to delete and recreate a
> security.  I have deleted the initial transaction I created for this
> security, as well as the investment account I created for the
> transaction.  Nonetheless, when I try to "Remove" the security from
> the "Security Editor", I get the message:
>
> "That commodity is currently used by at least one of your accounts.
> You may not delete it."
>
> I am using GnuCash 2.6.19 running under Ubuntu Studio 18.04
>
> How can I correct this?

Do what it's telling you.  Delete the account that is using the commodity.

GnuCash wont let you delete something that is referenced by another object.

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-derek

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