Deleting complete multi-split transactions would, of course, change running balances in all affected accounts, possibly affecting bank account reconciliations or whatever happens to be in those deleted transactions.
On Sun, Mar 8, 2020 at 1:27 PM Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > The proper Find operation would be this: > > 1. Open the AccountA register. > 2. Edit > Find > 3. Set Criteria to “All Accounts” > 3a. If you want all transactions that contain *both* Expense:E and > Expense:F > -then select both accounts in the pop-up selector (use > CTRL/CMD-click to select non-adjacent accounts, or shift-click for a range) > 3b. If you want transactions that contain *either* Expense:E or > Expense:F > -then select Expense:E > -then Add another “All Accounts” criteria and select Expense:F > -then change the “Search for items where” to “any criteria are met” > 4. Click the Find button > > From the search results, delete each transaction as desired one-by-one. > > Note, you can further refine search results with additional Finds from the > resulting register of a previous Find. > > Regards, > Adrien > > > On Mar 8, 2020 w11d68, at 1:14 PM, Adrien Monteleone < > adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > > > > Per a previous post Gio noted the intent to delete *some* expense > transactions. > > > > The example given was: > > > >> So example consider accountA. In it you would have transactions to/from: > >> AccountB > >> AccountC > >> Expense:E > >> Expense:F > >> > >> I want to be able to search so it will list Expense:E and F but NOT > >> Accounts B and C. Then I can delete these expenses. > > > > It still isn’t clear if the intent is to delete everything in Expense:E > & Expense:F or just those that also are split with AccountA. > > > > In the latter case, a proper Find operation I think is the fastest > route, deleting each one by one from that resulting list. (a search result > that is, not a report which does involve extra clicks as the OP noted.) > > > > Regards, > > Adrien > > > > > > > >> On Mar 8, 2020 w11d68, at 12:48 PM, Stephen M. Butler <kg...@arrl.net> > wrote: > >> > >> Hmm. Did you say _every_ transaction involved in _all_ expense > accounts? > >> > >> Open your file and save off a copy. > >> > >> Then on the Accounts tab, find the top-level Expenses account and > >> highlight that. > >> > >> Click on Edit menu item and then on Delete Account. > >> > >> On the popup screen select the options to delete sub-accounts and to > >> delete transactions. > >> > >> Click on the Delete button on the lower right corner. > >> > >> POOF -- all transactions involving an expense account are gone. So are > >> all the Expense accounts! But you can add those back in as needed. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > -- David Carlson _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
