[GNC] can we bulk delete transactions

[arthur brogard]

That's a good trick. Perhaps it would work just as well on this new empty file.  I'm halfway through doing it all again.  I'll check.  thanks.
 

    On Monday 6 April 2026 at 05:09:05 am ACST, Ed Greenberg <edg at greenberg.org> wrote:  
 
 If I want to do a bulk import, and I'm afraid I may need to back it out, I just closed the file, reopen, and do my input. If you don't like what you got, and it's complex to delete, just roll back one version. 
This assumes that you are not using the SQL back end. I'm not sure how that would work. 
Ed
On Sun, Apr 5, 2026, 14:33 arthur brogard via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:



I just set up a completely new books using 'exports accounts' from a previous. So it was empty of transactions.
Then I imported a few hundred transactions from a bank statement via a .csv file.And they are all wrong.The system did  not offer me an 'amount' column but only 'increase' or 'decrease' and I picked the wrong one.Best advice i can find anywhere on how to reverse that is to select and delete many transactions at once via selecting many.
the trouble is i cannot find a way to 'bulk select'.  I can only ever select one transaction.
Fortunately this is entirely new, as I say, so I could start again.
A bit of a nuisance, though.  I had to manually enter all the 'target accounts' for the system didn't recognise them.  So I am thinking if I can empty this current one then a re import the right way round this time and i won't have to re-enter all those account associations.
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