[GNC] Copy and paste account into a new account

[Edwin Booth]

Thank you, All! I have simply built a new version of the same account by
copying and pasting from the old. Time consuming but it seems to have
worked for me. I have kept the old, problematical account and may see if I
can resurrect it by using your instructions. I sure appreciate the help you
all give. A great community indeed!

Edwin



On Sun, Sep 7, 2025 at 10:55 PM sunfish62 at yahoo.com <sunfish62 at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> Just going to say that #1 is overkill. The prior answer, I believe, is #3.
>
> If you're not up to editing the gcm file, you can always just delete the
> gcm file altogether and it will get rebuilt the next time you fire GnuCash
> up, using default column widths. The gcm file location is given on the
> wiki.
>
> ⁣David T.​
>
> On Sep 7, 2025, 11:40 AM, at 11:40 AM, Edwin Booth <elybeedle at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >Thank you! I have tried your No. 2 suggestion countless times and just
> >does
> >not reappear. I’m not sure what you mean by the down arrow on the
> >column
> >headers (I’m using a MacBook). I only get the side-to-side arrows as
> >well
> >as the regular cursor. I’m keen to try your No. 3 but have no idea how
> >to
> >do that.
> >
> >Thanks so much for the reply!
> >
> >Edwin
> >
> >On Sun, Sep 7, 2025 at 1:17 PM Steve Butler
> ><stephen.m.butler51 at gmail.com>
> >wrote:
> >
> >> Create the new account.
> >>
> >> Delete the old account and check the box to transfer all transactions
> >to
> >> the new account.
> >>
> >> It may be that your balance column was either:
> >> 1.  Turned off -- check the down arrow on the column headers.
> >> 2.  Pushed off the page by wider columns.  Double click the
> >Description
> >> column headers to see if columns suddenly appear(and description
> >column
> >> shrinks)
> >> 3.  Width of Balance column set to zero pixels.  There is a file you
> >need
> >> to edit to fix that.  Not sure which one nor where it is located.
> >>
> >> On Sun, Sep 7, 2025, 11:11 Edwin Booth <elybeedle at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi. I’m having trouble with one of my accounts. I have lost the
> >Balance
> >>> column and I think I need to make a new account. Is it possible to
> >copy
> >>> and
> >>> paste a whole account into a new account window?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks, Edwin
> >>>
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