[GNC] Bulk moving transactions

[D.]

Of course, once you've edited every transaction to put it into a child account, you could have just changed them all to their proper account altogether, and eliminated the entire account delete set of steps...


-------- Original Message --------
From: Michael or Penny Novack <stepbystepfarm at comcast.net>
Sent: Wed Jul 01 15:56:49 EDT 2020
To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: [GNC] Bulk moving transactions

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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