[GNC] How to move a transaction with splits from one top-level account to another - take 2

[R Losey]

There is also a menu item in GnuCash under Transaction that allows one to
cut and paste it; I've used that to move transactions to the proper account.

On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 3:33 PM Kalpesh Patel <kalpesh.patel at usa.net> wrote:

> Since there are more than two ways suggested, I was highlighting the
> pitfall
> -- if delete route was used instead of simply changing its parent -- that
> it
> does not delete all transactions that are present in the latter account
> before
> reassigning the transactions from the former account to latter one.
> Re-parenting is the preferred method.
>
> I would say that you might be able to tell if the account was empty or not
> afterwards is to retain the GNC log file that gets created that would
> capture
> that event or you put some sort of marker in the account that it was empty
> would be two ways I think it can be accomplished if it was necessary. But
> that
> is not a strait forward built-in functionality that I believe you are
> referring to.
>
>
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> Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2023 15:50:48 -0500
> From: Michael or Penny Novack <stepbystepfarm at comcast.net>
> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Subject: Re: [GNC] How to move a transaction with splits from one
> top-level account to another - take 2
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> On 1/19/2023 12:44 PM, Kalpesh Patel wrote:
> > Just to add a bit of clarification to this, if you do decide to go with
> the
> > delete route, transactions that are in the former account are merged into
> > latter one.
> >
> Uh .... if your intent is to MOVE an account to a? different place in
> the CoA, simply change its parent. Same if you want a different name for
> the account, just rename it. In either of those situations, you are not
> intending to alter any transactions, so why touch them.
>
> Yes, delete will work IF the destination account is empty. But moving by
> delete is a MERGE operation (merge the transactions in the account being
> deleted with the transactions already in the destination account.
> However, how would you demonstrate afterword's that it had been empty?
>
> Michael D Novack
>
>
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