[GNC] Can't delete security

[rsbrux]

Thanks for the tip(s)!  I had forgotten that GC automatically creates a 
"Trading" account.  After deleting that and the inital price ntry 
created by the first transaction, I could delete the security.

On 12.02.19 18:30, Maf. King wrote:
> On Tuesday, 12 February 2019 17:27:20 GMT rsbrux via gnucash-user wrote:
>
>> @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.
>>
> the data file is probably zip-compressed.  Either untick the GC pref to save as
> compressed, or run it through gunzip (you probably need to change the
> extension first)
>
> HTH,
> Maf
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