Dear All, Thank you all for your help. After changing all account types to "Cash" (right click -> Edit Account -> select "Cash" for Account Type), I was able to merge them. Previously, the new account I created was just an "Asset", not "Cash"!
Thanks again! Sincerely, Matthew Clay On Sun, Jun 18, 2023 at 2:51 PM NoobAlice <noobal...@airmail.cc> wrote: > I would say, in addition, make sure that neither your source account nor > your destination account is marked as "hidden" or "placeholder." Or, if > it is, use the little configuration icon (for me it is a wrench and a > screwdriver crossed) to show hidden and placeholder accounts. > > Accounts should be the same type, as David says. > I was not able to delete-merge a type "asset" account into a type "bank" > account until I changed the "asset" account into a "bank" account. > > On 2023-06-18 02:48 PM, David Carlson wrote: > > Check the account types of the accounts that you want to merge. There > are > > some limitations on account types that will merge. In release 3.8, IIR, > it > > is possible to merge liabilities with assets or expense with income, but > > not securities with much of anything else. Perhaps others have > additional > > suggestions. > > > > On Sun, Jun 18, 2023 at 1:40 PM Matthew Clay <mpc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> Dear Gnucash Community, > >> > >> I am trying to merge two accounts in gnucash by deleting one account and > >> moving all of its transactions to the other account. This is explained > in a > >> thread "Merging Two Accounts" dated Mon May 9 17:15:22 EDT 2011. After > >> selecting "Delete Account", however, the list of destination accounts in > >> the "Move to" dropdown menu is severely limited, and even after I > manually > >> type in the full path to the destination account, gnucash does not > >> recognize it. I have tried renaming the accounts and moving them around > in > >> the Assets tree, but I still cannot select my target destination > account. > >> > >> Has anybody experienced this issue? > >> > >> I am using gnucash 3.8 with build ID 3.8b+(2019-12-29) on an Ubuntu > system. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Matthew > >> _______________________________________________ > >> gnucash-user mailing list > >> gnucash-user@gnucash.org > >> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > >> ----- > >> 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 > ----- > 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 ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
