[GNC] Help Find Feature

[Gio Bacareza]

Hi Stephen, thanks for the response.

Once again, I want to apologize if my initial and following posts were not
clear. My bad.

As I have explained to Adrien in my earlier response (I respond on a FIFO
basis.) the reason I cannot do what you have suggested is that it doesn't
apply. The Expense account and all its children is not the problem. The
problem is with specific accounts where I need to delete all expenses
within them. I tried to explain in gnucash nomenclature where expenses are
not categories but just another accounts. So within the concerned accounts
(which are bank and credit card accounts), I just need to delete the
expenses.

I hope this is much clearer. If it's not responsibility to improve clarity
is mine. Do let me know.

Thanks.

On Mon, Mar 9, 2020 at 1:49 AM Stephen M. Butler <kg7je at arrl.net> wrote:

> On 3/7/20 8:03 PM, Gio Bacareza wrote:
> > Thanks Tommy. This is a really interesting method and I can already think
> > of use cases. For my scenario though, as I mentioned earlier response, it
> > will add extra steps to what it is that I want to do.
> >
> > I want to be able to find transactions to/from expense accounts because I
> > need to delete them and I am looking for the fastest way to do that.
> Thanks
> >
> Hmm.  Did you say _every_ transaction involved in _all_ expense accounts?
>
> Open your file and save off a copy.
>
> Then on the Accounts tab, find the top-level Expenses account and
> highlight that.
>
> Click on Edit menu item and then on Delete Account.
>
> On the popup screen select the options to delete sub-accounts and to
> delete transactions.
>
> Click on the Delete button on the lower right corner.
>
> POOF -- all transactions involving an expense account are gone.  So are
> all the Expense accounts!  But you can add those back in as needed.
>
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-- 
cheers,

Gio