[GNC] New user: how to migrate Quicken checking account as a single, flat, checking account

[David Carlson]

What you need to do is start a new file and position those expenses
correctly under the the top expense level during the import process.  That
is not really very hard with a couple of expendable tries to see how it
works.



On Sun, Dec 4, 2022, 12:17 PM Scott Traurig <scott.traurig at gmail.com> wrote:

> Nope, sorry, you gents did not understand my question.
>
> I don't have any unwanted accounts. Indeed, all of my categories in Quicken
> were well thought out and organized, and well replicated as separate
> expense accounts in GnuCash via the import process.
>
> But with some 100 different, well organized and well thought out expense
> accounts, I don't want them all at the top level, which is where GnuCash
> puts them upon import.
>
> In the GnuCash paradigm, I now have top level placeholder accounts for
> assets, liabilities, income and expenses. For income, assets and
> liabilities it was not much of a chore to move those few accounts that were
> imported to be under their proper, respective placeholders in
> the hierarchy. But now I need to move all 100 or so expense accounts,
> intact, from the top level to underneath the top level, placeholder expense
> account. That's a huge PITA if I have to edit the properties of each one
> individually. Drag and drop would be a modern UI method for this, alas it
> does not exist in GnuCash.
>
> Is there an easy way to do this, or just grunt it out?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Scott
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