[GNC] Merger of Accounts

[Adrien Monteleone]

I have split done some account 'splitting' or what might be better 
termed 'refactoring' where I added a new detailed sub-account.

To make that process easier, I:

1. did a Find to get a resulting list of all target transactions to 
move, then,

2. one by one, re-assigned the 'anchoring split' (using Transaction 
Journal View) to the new account. As I did each one, they disappeared 
from the list (since they no longer matched the search criteria) and

3. when the list was empty, I was done.

Sure, you could maybe do this via SQL or some text processing on the 
uncompressed XML, but the above steps work within the software, as 
designed, and you can review each change since you have to do them manually.

For Complex Transactions, having enough descriptive info in the memos of 
your splits helps tremendously. If you are in the habit of combining 
line-items from a receipt, trying to split that off later without the 
original receipt and info at-hand can be extremely difficult, if not 
impossible. However, if you are re-assigning Simple Transactions, then 
this will not matter.

Regards,
Adrien

On 1/16/26 10:00 PM, David Cousens wrote:
> Splitting an account is much more difficult. It is not possible to
> select multiple transaction in an account register so it is not
> possible to select a group of transactions and then move them to
> another account.