[GNC] changing accounts?

[David H]

I'm putting words into David's mouth here, but I think he meant to do a
search, possibly more than 1, so that all the txns you want to change end
up in a separate search result tab. If you've already done a COPY (CTRL /
CMD C) of the new destination account you can then just tab into each txn,
CTRL-V in the correct place and hit enter - as you update each one it will
disappear from the search result tab all going well.

Cheers David H.


On Thu, 11 Nov 2021 at 08:44, Paul Kinzelman <paul at kinzelman.com> wrote:

> You're a little bit fast for me on that one. :-)
>
> I did it by hand for what I needed right now, but I was asking for next
> time.
>
> In the 3rd paragraph, by "separate register" do you mean create a temp
> account,
> and by "putting them in a separate register" do you mean cut/paste each
> transaction?
> Then delete the temp and move the transactions to the new account?
>
> The replace is one of the features I really miss from Quicken.
>
> On 11/10/2021 3:37 PM, D. wrote:
> > If you're changing every ABC to DEF, you can delete ABC and tell
> > gnucash to move the transactions into DEF. That's documented in the wiki.
> >
> > If you're only deleting a bunch (but not all) there isn't one find and
> > replace command. When push comes to shove, though, even fixing 100
> > transactions will only take a few minutes' time.
> >
> > If it were me in this second scenario (and it has been, believe me!),
> > I'd search for the offending transactions, putting them all in a
> > separate register, copy the new account designation, and paste it into
> > each transaction at the appropriate point before pressing enter to
> > commit them away.
> >
> > David
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > *From:* Paul Kinzelman
> > *Sent:* Wed Nov 10 17:25:51 EST 2021
> > *To:* Gnucash Elist
> > *Subject:* [GNC] changing accounts?
> >
> > Is there some way to change all the entries for a set of
> > items in an account to be charged to one account to
> > charge them all to another account?
> >
> > For instance, if I have a monthly charge from XYZ that I charge
> > to account ABC, and I have a bunch of them in my Checking
> > account, is there a way to change all of them to DEF without
> > going in and poking each one? And that's where a simple
> > account name change ABC->DEF won't work because there's
> > other stuff in there.
> >
> > In other words, like a global replace?
> >
> > TIA!
> >
> >
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