Hi Stephen, thanks for the response. Once again, I want to apologize if my initial and following posts were not clear. My bad.
As I have explained to Adrien in my earlier response (I respond on a FIFO basis.) the reason I cannot do what you have suggested is that it doesn't apply. The Expense account and all its children is not the problem. The problem is with specific accounts where I need to delete all expenses within them. I tried to explain in gnucash nomenclature where expenses are not categories but just another accounts. So within the concerned accounts (which are bank and credit card accounts), I just need to delete the expenses. I hope this is much clearer. If it's not responsibility to improve clarity is mine. Do let me know. Thanks. On Mon, Mar 9, 2020 at 1:49 AM Stephen M. Butler <kg...@arrl.net> wrote: > On 3/7/20 8:03 PM, Gio Bacareza wrote: > > Thanks Tommy. This is a really interesting method and I can already think > > of use cases. For my scenario though, as I mentioned earlier response, it > > will add extra steps to what it is that I want to do. > > > > I want to be able to find transactions to/from expense accounts because I > > need to delete them and I am looking for the fastest way to do that. > Thanks > > > 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. > > -- > Stephen M Butler, PMP, PSM > stephen.m.butle...@gmail.com > kg...@arrl.net > 253-350-0166 > ------------------------------------------- > GnuPG Fingerprint: 8A25 9726 D439 758D D846 E5D4 282A 5477 0385 81D8 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > -- cheers, Gio _______________________________________________ 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.
