[GNC] Cut & Paste transaction problem

Glenn Fowler gfowler1 at outlook.com
Mon May 3 20:02:21 EDT 2021


I'm assuming the copy/paste would be more for copying to a
different account as the duplicate option is in the same account.

On Mon, May 3, 2021 at 7:44 PM David H <hellvee at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is there any advantage in using Copy Transaction and Paste Transaction ?  I
> only ever use Duplicate Transaction - 1 step as opposed to 2...
>
> Cheers David H.
>
>
> On Tue, 4 May 2021 at 07:07, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I would be willing to bet that you never automatically got the original
> > date on any copy.  When I use the copy transaction feature in previous
> > releases of GnuCash up to 3.8 it always asks for the date and defaults to
> > today if not changed.
> >
> > On Mon, May 3, 2021, 2:19 PM Robert Stocker <kneadtoknow at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Follow up to my earlier post, which I just noticed. My recommended
> > > work-around for the Cut Transaction & Paste Transaction problem (using
> > Copy
> > > Transaction & Paste Transaction) has an issue I have never noticed
> > before:
> > >
> > > When I just used Copy Transaction & Paste Transaction, the date of the
> > > original transaction did not carry through when I pasted, the new
> > > transaction took today's date. Though I can't swear that it wasn't
> doing
> > > this before, I am 95% certain it did not.
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