Ah, go to the contra cash account for the transaction and do it over there... thanks for that tip!
------ Original Message ------ Received: Sun, 19 May 2024 05:38:58 PM EDT From: Fred Tydeman <tydeman.f...@gmail.com> To: Kalpesh Patel <kalpesh.pa...@usa.net>Cc: Gnucash Users <gnucash-user@gnucash.org> Subject: Re: [GNC] Delete a trading account => crash > By mistake, I had two Asset accounts for the same stock, but with different > spellings. > That is what produced the two similar Trading accounts. > > So, I ended up doing in the Cash account that did the buys and sells: > In split view mode: change the stock asset account from one to the other, > press Enter, that got me a popup to adjust the number of shares. > Press Enter and all was fixed. > > Doing that was a lot easier than deleting and re-entering the transactions. > > When I was done, one stock asset account and one trading account were > both empty, so could be deleted. I also deleted the wrong spelling in the > Security editor. > > On Sun, May 19, 2024 at 9:28 AM Kalpesh Patel <kalpesh.pa...@usa.net> wrote: > > > That is the behavior, sadly, where it goes back to what the original > > transaction was. It is undesired but it is there and not likely to be > > fixed.. (I run into it when I want to duplicate the transaction and then > > just update the quantity) > > > > To get around, you technically have to enter the entire transaction from > > beginning to end. Work around is to "modify" transaction is to open up the > > transaction, select first row from split view, go to first column highlight > > what is in it, copy it to clipboard, delete it, paste it from clipboard > > (correct as you need to during this paste phase). Rinse-&-repeat for all > > columns across for all rows in the transaction... you can minimize this by > > doing cut-&-paste to only the Shares, Buy and Sell columns and let it > > calculate the Price column. It does get crazy when you have multi-currency > > enabled and/or are dividend reinvestment transactions ... > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Fred Tydeman <tydeman.f...@gmail.com> > > Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2024 1:04 AM > > To: Gnucash Users <gnucash-user@gnucash.org> > > Subject: [GNC] Delete a trading account => crash > > > > Running GnuCash 4.14 on Fedora Linux. > > > > Due to a mistake on my part, I have two Trading accounts: > > IVR-PC > > IVRPRC > > for the same security. > > > > First, I tried changing Trading:IVRPRC to Trading:IVR-PC in a Sell or Buy > > transaction from the cash account. However, when I pressed Enter, Gnucash > > undid my change. > > > > Then, I tried deleting Trading:IVRPRC account and moving its transactions > > to Trading: IVR-PC. > > That crashed Gnucash. > > > > I am now running a Check & Repair all (takes many minutes). > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ 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.
