[GNC] Merging Two Accounts

[NoobAlice]

I would say, in addition, make sure that neither your source account nor 
your destination account is marked as "hidden" or "placeholder."  Or, if 
it is, use the little configuration icon (for me it is a wrench and a 
screwdriver crossed) to show hidden and placeholder accounts.

Accounts should be the same type, as David says.
I was not able to delete-merge a type "asset" account into a type "bank" 
account until I changed the "asset" account into a "bank" account.

On 2023-06-18 02:48 PM, David Carlson wrote:
> Check the account types of the accounts that you want to merge.  There are
> some limitations on account types that will merge.  In release 3.8, IIR, it
> is possible to merge liabilities with assets or expense with income, but
> not securities with much of anything else.  Perhaps others have additional
> suggestions.
> 
> On Sun, Jun 18, 2023 at 1:40 PM Matthew Clay <mpclay at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Dear Gnucash Community,
>>
>> I am trying to merge two accounts in gnucash by deleting one account and
>> moving all of its transactions to the other account. This is explained in a
>> thread "Merging Two Accounts" dated  Mon May 9 17:15:22 EDT 2011. After
>> selecting "Delete Account", however, the list of destination accounts in
>> the "Move to" dropdown menu is severely limited, and even after I manually
>> type in the full path to the destination account, gnucash does not
>> recognize it. I have tried renaming the accounts and moving them around in
>> the Assets tree, but I still cannot select my target destination account.
>>
>> Has anybody experienced this issue?
>>
>> I am using gnucash 3.8 with build ID 3.8b+(2019-12-29) on an Ubuntu system.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Matthew
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