oddness with blank payee and missing category

[Jack]

I finally got time to start clearing up this old mess.  I changed the  
name of the Payee with no name (can I call it the Payee formerly known  
as ... ?) to " missing payee" so I can distinguish that payee from no  
payee on a transaction.  More below.

On 2017.07.28 08:19, Thomas Baumgart wrote:
> On Mittwoch, 26. Juli 2017 14:06:31 CEST Jack wrote:
[snip.....]
>> Question - should it also be safe just to change   Payee="P000845"   
>> to Payee="" in the file directly without breaking anything else?  It  
>> might end up being the fastest way, but I'm not sure I trust it.  (I  
>> would definitely make several backups first :-))
> Yes, that can be done. It leaves the transaction with no payee then.  
> Once all of them have been processed that way, you should be able to  
> delete the payee completely (giving it a name like "no payee" before  
> reduces the confusion). It's exactly what KMyMoney does internally if  
> you
> 
> a) rename the empty payee to "no payee"
> b) go to a transaction and get rid of "no payee" as payee
> c) repeat b) until no more transactions are assigned
> 
> which is a bit more tedious if we talk about a lot of transactions  
> compared to manipulating the file directly.
> 

 From the Payee View, I selected the " missing payee" and then selected  
the first listed transaction.  It is a "Sell shares" transaction.  I  
see no mention of " missing payee" but if I right click, I do see  
entries to "go to " both the brokerage account and the " missing  
payee."  From the brokerage account, I only see the goto the investment  
account.  I suppose this is because there is generally no payee  
involved in a "sell shares" transaction, so there is no point in  
displaying it.  However, since a payee got created on import (by  
matching the payee with no name) it may end up necessary for me to do  
this by editing the  XML file.

Any other thoughts?

Jack