[GNC] Unusual book need

[David T.]

Jean,

Your assessment is about right, although I wouldn't characterize it as a shortcoming, just an area that requires manual intervention. 

Jeff, 

While it may seem onerous to consider, it turns out that creating and deleting transactions is not that great an effort, given auto completion. If you open both sets of books and display them side by side, you can quickly work through your dad's file and add the transactions to your books. 

Once you are satisfied with the accuracy of the new transactions, you can delete them from your dad's books. Turning off the delete transaction confirmation for the session can speed that up significantly. 

It's possible to make, move, and delete hundreds of transactions in a short period of time. (This fact, coupled with the relative infrequency of needing to do this and the programming overhead involved is the reason why nobody has developed a tool for this.) 

David T.

On April 15, 2022 3:20:27 AM PDT, Jean Laroche <ripngo at gmail.com> wrote:
>As far as I know, there's no easy way to delete a group of transactions, 
>I think that's one of the shortcomings of GC?
>You can do a search to find all of them using the right criterion but 
>I'm pretty sure after that you can't really do much with that (except 
>create a report which isn't useful for you).
>
>But maybe the experts know of a way.
>
>One useful feature would be the ability to delete/move transactions in a 
>search result, since GC does not allow selecting multiple transactions 
>and acting on them (to move them to a new account / delete them etc) 
>doing it on the result of a search could be a useful workaround.
>
>J
>
>
>On 4/15/22 11:00 AM, Jeff wrote:
>> I need to move transactions from from one set of books to another one.
>>
>> I didn't realize while entering transactions in my dads books that 
>> they should have gone into mine.  My dad opened a bank account that I 
>> did not know about until I started entering charges that my son made 
>> with feed stores (debit card).  I had not been informed about the bank 
>> account that grandpa opened in my sons name, and I am responsible for 
>> all of his income/debits until he is 21.  And many of these 
>> transactions affect my income/loss.
>>
>> Is there an easy way to move those entries from one journal to the 
>> other or will I have to find all of them and manually delete them from 
>> one journal and reenter them in mine?  These are separate journal files.
>>
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