[GNC] Bulk moving transactions

[Adrien Monteleone]

I’ve twice now seen the advice to delete the account as a bulk move operation.

Yes, that does work.

However, this appears to be a parent account.

Can a parent account be safely deleted without affecting the sub accounts?

I guess I could try, just for kicks, (since I’m not the one needing to move transactions) but my initial suspicion is —that way lies a mess.


Regards,
Adrien

> On Jul 1, 2020 w27d183, at 10:14 AM, Michael or Penny Novack <stepbystepfarm at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> On 6/30/2020 4:46 PM, V. Vatsal via gnucash-user wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I am running GnuCash on Mac.
>> 
>> Somehow a month’s worth of credit card transactions ended up in the top level Bank Accounts account. Is there some quick way to move or edit them to the appropriate credit card account? It’s not possible even to move them manually, as far as I can tell, without jumping to the corresponding Expense account for each, and then changing the source account there.
> 
> You have been given the general advice, how to do this when you need to separate transactions in the account by error from those which belong there. BUT -- in the special case where:
> 
> 1) The are no correct transactions (none that belong in the account)
> 
> 2) They all should be in the same different account
> 
> You CAN (in this special case) bulk move them. Here you would first create a new "top level bank account" and change the parent of each child of the old one. Now ONLY those transactions are in it (in the old one). Tell gnucash that you want to delete that account and it will prompt you to decide if you also want its contents deleted or moved elsewhere. You would pick "elsewhere" specifying the correct credit card account. If you want, you can now rename the parent top level bank account to what it was and don;t forget to make it a placeholder account.
> 
> Michael D Novack