[GNC] Having trouble trying to use Gnucash instead of Aplos

[Derek Atkins]

Use File - > Export Accounts.
It will create a new data file with just your account tree without any 
transactions.
Then File - > Open the new file.

The issue you are seeing is that when you delete the Imbalance account it 
is trying to reassign all your transactions.... To Imbalance. So it 
recreates the account.

-derek
Sent using my mobile device. Please excuse any typos.
On September 15, 2019 8:17:14 AM Daniel Wieberdink <danw8804 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I was hoping to transition to Gnucash to track finances for the small
> church we belong to. I started by optimistically trying to import about 3
> years worth of transactions from Aplos into GC via a CSV file. That didn't
> go as smoothly as I hoped. Most of the transactions ended up in the
> "Imbalance-USD" account/category. It seems I have to go thru and
> manually fix each transaction. I'm reluctant because I'm not even sure I'm
> doing it correctly. So I would like to start over, except I have all the
> accounts set up correctly (I think) so I would like to save those.
>
> I expected I would be able to hold down the shift key, scroll down the
> transaction list to select a big chunk to delete and then hit the delete
> key. But this doesn't work. And I couldn't find any other way to delete the
> mess I made without deleting them all one at a time.
>
> So then I noticed an account called "Imbalance-USD" so I thought "I will
> try just deleting that." But even that didn't work. I selected the account,
> pressed the delete key, responded to a couple warning windows by pressing
> the delete button in the messages. The screen flashed a little like it was
> doing it, but it's still there. I tried multiple times with the same result.
>
> I'm very close to giving up on this. I'm can't see spending much more time
> on it if it doesn't work any better than this. Is there something
> fundamental I'm doing wrong? The program looks so promising but I just
> can't get anything to work the way I expect.
>
> I would be grateful for any help you can give. Thanks.
>
> Dan W.
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