[GNC] Duplicating Account

Michael or Penny Novack stepbystepfarm at comcast.net
Wed Oct 30 10:44:13 EDT 2024


> On Tue, October 29, 2024 12:53 pm, Griffin wrote:
>> Is it possible to duplicate an account?
> Please define what you mean by "duplicate an account".  An account object
> doesn't have a lot of data in it:  a name, a type, a currency/commodity, a
> parent.
>
> If you want to also duplicate all the transactions in an account, the only
> way to do that would be to export the current contents and (re)import them
> into the new account --- but I don't understand why you would want to do
> that?

Yes, explain WHAT you are trying to do (and then we'll get to the how). 
The "what" would be in terms of accounting, what change you are trying 
to make in the ledger (at this level, not specific to gnucash)

Michael D Novack





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