[GNC] changing accounts?

[David H]

David,

I was listening a while back when it came up previously :-)

Cheers David H.

On Thu, 11 Nov 2021 at 12:16, D. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Precisely. Thanks David H.
> ------------------------------
> *From:* David H
> *Sent:* Wed Nov 10 18:38:01 EST 2021
> *To:* paul at kinzelman.com
> *Cc:* Gnucash Elist
> *Subject:* Re: [GNC] changing accounts?
>
> 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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