[GNC] Lost my top level aka Master account

Mom anne.giordani at comcast.net
Tue Sep 7 20:34:15 EDT 2021


Thank you Derek! You were exactly right. Joint checking was under assets. It is so funny how GnuCash opened after the migration. I usually just keep the joint checking account open and, like you, never enter transactions via the income/expense accounts so the new-to-me view that came up really had me freaked out. BTW I don’t know what you mean by CoA view.

I started having computer problems back in March, so now I can look forward to reconciling 6 months of transactions!

Thank you everyone for your help.

> On Sep 7, 2021, at 11:14 AM, Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, September 7, 2021 10:40 am, Mom wrote:
>> Hi Derek:
>> 
>> Here is what I see. These are all income/expense detail accounts that
>> should all be under “Joint Checking,” the master file that I no longer
>> see. I am trying to use the account nomenclature in the user’s guide BTW.
>> 
>> Like you, I am optimistic that the data are all there, but at this point,
>> everything is disconnected :-(
> 
> So you have Expenses and Income expanded, but Assets and Liabilities are
> not expanded.  If you click on the little triangle to the left of Assets,
> it should expand that out.  Then you may need to expand out more,
> depending on what your hierarchy looks like.
> 
> For what it's worth, normally I only keep my Assets and Liability accounts
> expanded in my CoA view, because I rarely need to see those account
> balances, and I never enter transactions in via Income/Expense accounts.
> 
> So click on those triangles and I'm sure you'll find the account!
> 
> Good Luck!
> 
> -derek
> 
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