[GNC] How to remove oldest transactions

Michael or Penny Novack stepbystepfarm at comcast.net
Sat Dec 18 16:07:13 EST 2021


On 12/18/2021 3:16 PM, D. wrote:
> Thank you Michael for stepping in. You've summarized the process to 
> which I was alluding.
>
> I'll note that deleting old transactions using a keyboard shortcut is 
> going to throw the balances off for every account that the deleted 
> transactions touched, so you'll end up creating correcting balance 
> transactions all over the place anyhow.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------

ROFLOL  -- It's easy for me to describe how to use gnucash to have some 
of the properties of old fashioned pen and ink on paper like this of 
wanting to have only current transactions in the books. I learned 
bookkeeping in the days of pen and ink on paper << OK, some of the 
biggest, most modern corporations had computers by the late 50's, but 
most didn't yet >>

Michael D Novack



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