To add, you can do bulk delete as described here, which works great and is really fast:
https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2021-December/098934.html On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 11:43 AM David T. via gnucash-user < gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > Jean, > > Your assessment is about right, although I wouldn't characterize it as a > shortcoming, just an area that requires manual intervention. > > Jeff, > > While it may seem onerous to consider, it turns out that creating and > deleting transactions is not that great an effort, given auto completion. > If you open both sets of books and display them side by side, you can > quickly work through your dad's file and add the transactions to your > books. > > Once you are satisfied with the accuracy of the new transactions, you can > delete them from your dad's books. Turning off the delete transaction > confirmation for the session can speed that up significantly. > > It's possible to make, move, and delete hundreds of transactions in a > short period of time. (This fact, coupled with the relative infrequency of > needing to do this and the programming overhead involved is the reason why > nobody has developed a tool for this.) > > David T. > > On April 15, 2022 3:20:27 AM PDT, Jean Laroche <rip...@gmail.com> wrote: > >As far as I know, there's no easy way to delete a group of transactions, > >I think that's one of the shortcomings of GC? > >You can do a search to find all of them using the right criterion but > >I'm pretty sure after that you can't really do much with that (except > >create a report which isn't useful for you). > > > >But maybe the experts know of a way. > > > >One useful feature would be the ability to delete/move transactions in a > >search result, since GC does not allow selecting multiple transactions > >and acting on them (to move them to a new account / delete them etc) > >doing it on the result of a search could be a useful workaround. > > > >J > > > > > >On 4/15/22 11:00 AM, Jeff wrote: > >> I need to move transactions from from one set of books to another one. > >> > >> I didn't realize while entering transactions in my dads books that > >> they should have gone into mine. My dad opened a bank account that I > >> did not know about until I started entering charges that my son made > >> with feed stores (debit card). I had not been informed about the bank > >> account that grandpa opened in my sons name, and I am responsible for > >> all of his income/debits until he is 21. And many of these > >> transactions affect my income/loss. > >> > >> Is there an easy way to move those entries from one journal to the > >> other or will I have to find all of them and manually delete them from > >> one journal and reenter them in mine? These are separate journal files. > >> > >_______________________________________________ > >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. > _______________________________________________ > 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. > _______________________________________________ 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.