[GNC] Unusual book need

Glenn Fowler gfowler1 at outlook.com
Fri Apr 15 12:29:54 EDT 2022


To add, you can do bulk delete as described here, which works great and is
really fast:

https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2021-December/098934.html

On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 11:43 AM David T. via gnucash-user <
gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:

> 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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