[GNC] Two accounts with same name in same Trading account

[Fred Tydeman]

I had both:
  the same security in two different Namespaces
  the same security in two different Trading sub-accounts.

I had several securities in the wrong Namespace.
I had several securities in the wrong Trading sub-account.

I also had lots of Price history for securities I no longer own (or care
about).
I also had some securities that I own, but was not getting price history.

I have cleaned all that up.
Having the read-only SQL database made it easier to find the errors.
The fixing of errors was done in GnuCash against the XML file.

My compressed XML file has gone from 4.7 Meg down to 3.4 Meg.


On Wed, Dec 10, 2025 at 12:29 PM Cam Ellison <cam at ellisonet.ca> wrote:

> On 2025-12-09 14:18, Fred Tydeman wrote:
> > I tried to delete one of the OKE Trading accounts and move those
> > transactions to the other OKE Trading account.
> > That causes GnuCash 5.12 on Fedora Linux 41 to crash and produce a core
> > dump.
>
> If you attempted to delete it directly from the database, that would
> cause a lot of trouble, especially if you deleted before trying to move
> the transactions.
>

I did that in GnuCash with the XML file.
The Delete account has the option of: move the transactions.


> I have not been following this thread very closely, so this may have
> been asked and discussed: do you have 2 different instances of the
> Security itself? I assume that, given the number of stocks you have,
> that you know the set-up procedure well, and know that the Account is
> different from the Security.
>
> Cheers
>
> Cam
>
>
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