[GNC] Delete a trading account => crash

[Kalpesh Patel]

Ah, go to the contra cash account for the transaction and do it over there...
thanks for that tip! 

------ Original Message ------
Received: Sun, 19 May 2024 05:38:58 PM EDT
From: Fred Tydeman <tydeman.fred at gmail.com>
To: Kalpesh Patel <kalpesh.patel at usa.net>Cc: Gnucash Users
<gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Subject: Re: [GNC] Delete a trading account => crash

> By mistake, I had two Asset accounts for the same stock, but with different
> spellings.
> That is what produced the two similar Trading accounts.
> 
> So, I ended up doing in the Cash account that did the buys and sells:
> In split view mode: change the stock asset account from one to the other,
> press Enter, that got me a popup to adjust the number of shares.
> Press Enter and all was fixed.
> 
> Doing that was a lot easier than deleting and re-entering the transactions.
> 
> When I was done, one stock asset account and one trading account were
> both empty, so could be deleted.  I also deleted the wrong spelling in the
> Security editor.
> 
> On Sun, May 19, 2024 at 9:28 AM Kalpesh Patel <kalpesh.patel at usa.net>
wrote:
> 
> > That is the behavior, sadly, where it goes back to what the original
> > transaction was. It is undesired but it is there and not likely to be
> > fixed.. (I run into it when I want to duplicate the transaction and then
> > just update the quantity)
> >
> > To get around, you technically have to enter the entire transaction from
> > beginning to end. Work around is to "modify" transaction is to open up
the
> > transaction, select first row from split view, go to first column
highlight
> > what is in it, copy it to clipboard, delete it, paste it from clipboard
> > (correct as you need to during this paste phase). Rinse-&-repeat for all
> > columns across for all rows in the transaction... you can minimize this
by
> > doing cut-&-paste to only the Shares, Buy and Sell columns and let it
> > calculate the Price column. It does get crazy when you have
multi-currency
> > enabled and/or are dividend reinvestment transactions ...
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Fred Tydeman <tydeman.fred at gmail.com>
> > Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2024 1:04 AM
> > To: Gnucash Users <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> > Subject: [GNC] Delete a trading account => crash
> >
> > Running GnuCash 4.14 on Fedora Linux.
> >
> > Due to a mistake on my part, I have two Trading accounts:
> >   IVR-PC
> >   IVRPRC
> > for the same security.
> >
> > First, I tried changing Trading:IVRPRC to Trading:IVR-PC in a Sell or Buy
> > transaction from the cash account. However, when I pressed Enter, Gnucash
> > undid my change.
> >
> > Then, I tried deleting Trading:IVRPRC account and moving its transactions
> > to Trading: IVR-PC.
> > That crashed Gnucash.
> >
> > I am now running a Check & Repair all (takes many minutes).
> >
> >
> >
>