[GNC] can we bulk delete transactions

[Wm Tarr]

See a recent post

from Ken Pyzik

dated 2026-03-23

Subject Deleting old entries

for one way to delete lots of tx.

Wm

On 2026-04-05 20:52, arthur brogard wrote:
> 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.
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>      On Monday 6 April 2026 at 05:09:05 am ACST, Ed Greenberg <edg at greenberg.org> wrote:
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>   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:
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> 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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