[GNC] Can't delete security

[Adrien Monteleone]

You might have set the preference to compress the file. Either uncompress it from your file manager before opening, or unset the preference and perform another save from within GnuCash.

Regards,
Adrien

> On Feb 12, 2019, at 11:27 AM, rsbrux via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
> 
> @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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