[GNC] Bulk moving transactions

Adrien Monteleone adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net
Wed Jul 1 16:09:07 EDT 2020


Sorry Michael, it was an oversight. I was not reading carefully. Geert pointed that out to me as well.

Apologies for the noise.

Regards,
Adrien

> On Jul 1, 2020 w27d183, at 2:56 PM, Michael or Penny Novack <stepbystepfarm at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> On 7/1/2020 12:07 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
>> 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.
>> 
> Did you read what I wrote? The process?
> 
> YES, you would want to first make this account NOT be the parent of its children. Once you have given them a different parent, they will no longer be the children of the account you want to delete.
> 
> Create a new placeholder account. Edit each child account so that this account is now its parent. THEN delete the account that had been the parent.
> 
> Michael D Novack




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