[GNC] Revising an old Gnucash file

David Carlson david.carlson.417 at gmail.com
Wed Jul 20 02:59:45 EDT 2022


The Placeholder feature prevents adding transactions to an account, but
IIRC it does not prevent existing transactions from being removed.  This
could help for some types of 'refactoring'.

On Wed, Jul 20, 2022 at 1:41 AM David T. via gnucash-user <
gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:

> If you set an account to Hidden, it will be... hidden in the chart of
> accounts.
>
> Assuming that your messed up account is a catch-all account from which you
> hope to move transactions, I'd actually keep that account visible, and
> change the messed up transactions to reflect my current intention-- for
> example, changing the destination accounts to follow my new plan. As you
> change a transaction to use, say, Expenses:Auto instead of
> Expenses:Catch-all, the transactions will "disappear" from the Catch-all
> account (not really; they actually just get moved to the proper register).
> You'll know you're finished when the register is empty.
>
> Just my opinion.
>
> David T.
>
> On July 20, 2022 1:18:26 AM GMT+03:00, Tom Browder <tom.browder at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >On Tue, Jul 19, 2022 at 16:57 <davidcousens49 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Tom,
> >>
> >> You can make accounts hidden. Edit the account in the Account tab and
> >> select the
> >> hidden button in the dialogue. You can always then use the right click
> in
> >> the
> >> Accounts tab, select Find Account and unhide them in future. If you
> delete
> >> an
> >> account you can choose another account for any splits to the deleted
> >> account to
> >> be redirected to.
> >
> >
> >That  sounds like the way to go! I saw in the docs one can hide an
> account,
> >but I could not find in the docs what the effect of a “hidden” file is.
> >
> >Thanks, David!
> >
> >-Tom
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