[GNC] Bulk moving transactions

[Vinayak Vatsal]

Thanks for your help.

Nike

> On Jun 30, 2020, at 2:21 PM, Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>> On Tue, June 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.
> 
> There are two ways to go about this:
> 
> 1) If you can delete the top-level "Bank Accounts" account, then it will
> ask you where to move the transactions and you can select the correct
> credit card account.  This will move all transactions en-masse and is the
> only way to do just a mass move.
> 
> 2) You can open the account, Change the View to Auto Split Ledger or
> Transaction Journal mode (see the View menu), and then you can change the
> split that ties each transaction to the Bank account to the credit
> account.  Here you do have to manually fix each one, but you can do it in
> one place; you don't have to jump to each Expense account to do so.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Nike
>> 
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> -derek
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