[Kmymoney] Re: Cannot edit payee list

[Cristian Oneț]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Ian Millington
<ian at ianmillington.co.uk> wrote:
> Wow!
>
> Thanks for the quick response guys.
>
> Thomas - I didn't know you could save as an anonymous file. I'll do that
> tonight when I get home.
>
> Christian, I'll give the kde3 version a try. I'm not great with source files
> so I wonder if there is a link to a .deb somewhere. Couple of points:

https://edge.launchpad.net/~claydoh/+archive/ppa

> Will I need to uninstall version 4.5.3 before installing the earlier version
> and
> I read somewhere (can't remember where) that if I delete a payee it deletes
> all transactions with that payee. Is that correct please and, if so, do I
> need to do anything to avoid it?

When you delete a payee the transactions are not deleted, instead they
are reassigned to a payee of your choice (the choice is made when
deleting the payee).

Regards,
Cristian

> On 29 March 2011 09:52, Cristian Oneț <onet.cristian at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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
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