[GNC] Duplicating Account

[Kalpesh Patel]

Ah. If you had asked the question about editing those transactions then someone with knowledge would have guided you to save lots of keystrokes by advising you to enable split view (from within Account Register via 'View" --> "Auto-split Ledger" menu choice) and updating the contra entries from that single place.

-----Original Message-----
From: Griffin <griffin at bernevyl.com> 
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2024 10:44 AM
To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: [GNC] Duplicating Account

Thank you so much Kalpesh for the reply.

I tried exporting and then importing, but that didn't work for me. I guess I did something wrong, and I ended up with lots of transactions with no values in them at all.

In the end I selected a transaction in the from account, "Jumped" to the other account/category, and then changed the account to the new to account.

There were only about 30 transactions, and in the end it took less time than the amount of time I spent working on the Export/Input technique.

Once again, Thanks




On 2024-10-31 8:13 a.m., Kalpesh Patel wrote:
> With that out of the way, I sounds like that the asking person wants to experiment something within the account. In that case, it is rather going to be best by making a copy of the file somewhere else. Then restore it back if you don’t like the result after the experiment or experiment with the copy of the file and then overwrite original if results looks good.
>
> Brief Explanation on XY Problem: : X (Ask) Y (Why)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) <stan+gc at fastmail.fm>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2024 10:26 AM
> To: Mark Penner <mrp at markpenner.space>
> Cc: gnuCash User List <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> Subject: Re: [GNC] Duplicating Account
>
> On 2024-10-30 04:49, Mark Penner wrote:
>> Oct 30, 2024 02:59:23 Griffin <griffin at bernevyl.com>:
>>> Is it possible to duplicate an account?
>> Sounds like an XY problem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem
>> What are you trying to do?
> Cool! I saw this phenomenon frequently in my days in software tech support, but I never knew it had a name. Thanks!
>
> Stan Brown
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