[GNC] Hide the accounts

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Maria, 

I'm not sure what you're talking about; hiding an account doesn't make the data unrecoverable, it just hides it from view if you tell GnuCash not to display hidden accounts. As Fred suggests in his reply elsewhere, in View->Filter by->Other, you can tell GnuCash to display or suppress hidden accounts. (The zero value setting is independent of the hidden account setting, BTW)

Neither you nor Fred point out that each account has two settings that apply to Heidi's issue.

One is the Hidden attribute, which Fred and you mentioned. This hides an account from view in the main Chart of Accounts, and may be all that Heidi needs. Using Fred's method is quick and easy, but it should also be noted that this attribute is also available in an account's properties page (Edit->Account).

A second attribute, however, is the Placeholder setting. This sets an account to read-only, which generally prevents any additional transactions being added to the account. When this is set for an account, it has the secondary effect of removing the account from the transfer account drop down in all registers. I believe this was the real issue that Heidi was having. 

David T. ​

On Jan 10, 2025, 11:02 PM, at 11:02 PM, Maria Inmaculada de la Torre <learning at 9999ways.com> wrote:
>Hello Heide,
>
>A quick search led me to these two results
>
>https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2018-August/078966.html
>https://gnucash.org/docs/v5/C/gnucash-manual/account-options.html#:~:text=The%20Accounts%20tab%20of%20this,accounts%2C%20Show%20zero%20total%20accounts.
>
>I recommend you read both together as it might be difficult to recover
>the
>accounts later on. I have tested it and it removes the account from
>view
>in  5.9, Windows 11, so just check it.
>
>I hope this helps.
>
>Thanking you.
>
>Regards,
>
>
>Maria Inmaculada de la Torre Ruiz
>
>
>On Fri, 10 Jan 2025 at 19:45, Heide Wang <heidew99 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi, I have been using Gnucash since 2015. During the past 10 years, I
>did a
>> lot of trading in investment. So I ended up with a long list of asset
>> accounts, now that I am retired, I consolidated all my investments
>into
>> just a few mutual funds, so all the other asset accounts are zero
>balance.
>> How can I hide these zero balance asset accounts so every time I
>record a
>> transaction, I don't have to stroll through all the asset accounts? I
>did
>> filter the view to not show zero balance. I am using Guncash 4.9 and
>MacOS
>> Sonoma 14.6.1 M1 chip.
>> Thanks.
>> Heide
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