[Kmymoney] Re: Cannot edit payee list

[Cristian Oneț]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Ian Millington
<ian at ianmillington.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi, I'm using kmymoney 4.5.3 in kde4.6.1/kubuntu 10.10
>
> I moved last week from Quicken 2002 standard. Last time I tried before
> that kmymoney would not import the QIF file as it was too old. However,
> I was able to accomplish this by importing the QIF files into Skrooge,
> and exporting as a kmymoney file. Import to kmymoney of 12 years of data
> was flawless so that was great.
>
> However, I have a list of payees that also goes back 12 years. Many
> (probably 80%) are superfluous of course. However if I click on any one
> of them the program will freeze and has to be forcibly closed. This also
> happens if I click on any of the icons at the top of the payee list. I
> have created a new blank kmymoney file and don't have this issue so I
> suspect it's because of the sheer number of payees.
>
> Is there any way I can edit the payee list from outside the program (I
> wouldn't even mind clearing it) without causing damage to something else?
>
> Thanks

Hi,

I think that your problem is the same as this bug reported here [1].
AFAIK there is no workaround this issue so we should fix it as soon as
possible. You could try cleaning up your payees with the KDE3 version
of kmymoney (which should behave OK in that area).

Regards,
Cristian

[1] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=268274