[kmymoney] [Bug 427519] Merge of Payees Deletes all Payees when an error occurs

[Jack]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=427519

--- Comment #17 from Jack <ostroffjh at users.sourceforge.net> ---
The problem seems to be that when you delete a payee, the program reassigns the
transactions for that payes to the new payee you choose.  Unfortunately,
however it chooses the list of transactions to process, it misses that one, so
at the end, when it checks for any transactions still assigned to the payee to
be deleted, it finds it and raises the error.  Unfortunately, as you
discovered, it seems to do so in a way that all those other transactions that
had the payee changed are somehow deleted.  This behavior is clearly a bug. 
I'm not sure what to say about allowing this sort of transaction to have been
imported.  I can dig a bit more through the code, but we may have to wait for
an opinion from one of the developers.

Internally to KMM, a Category IS an Account (of type income or expense, rather
than one of the more commonly used account types (checking, savings,
investment, ...).  I don't know of any way to change an account type between a
category type and another type.  I'll have to test, but I doubt it would be
safe to just edit the xml file and manually change the type.)  In terms of
history, it sounds like "Cash Account" should be type Cash in KMM rather than
one of the Category types.

Note that if you do a transaction search for T000000000000040026 it shows you
two results.  If you click on one, it shows the ledger for the Category used
for that split.  If you then right click on the transaction, it displays the
Payee (same for both splits) but you will note that it does NOT display that
transaction.  I suspect whatever filter is being used to show the transactions
for a Payee is the same filter causing the transaction to not have it's Payee
changed and thus causing the crash.

Another bit of information - if you to a transaction search on P003550 (as
text, not as Payee) that transaction is not included in the results.  I don't
understand why not, but I think all these oddities are somehow related.  More
research is needed.

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