[Kmymoney] Re: Cannot edit payee list

[aga]

On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 10:41:10 +0100
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.

Have a look at https://launchpad.net/~claydoh/+archive/ppa

Read the bit about adding that ppa to your system.  Claydoh is one of
our listers.

> Couple of points:
> 
> Will I need to uninstall version 4.5.3 before installing the earlier

I believe they install to different directories so should co-exist OK.
Perhaps this should be confirmed though.  Make sure to back-up (if you
can.)

> 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?

You can't delete a payee that still has transactions linked.  When you
try, it will point this out and ask you to specify another payee to
which to transfer them.

> 
> many thanks
> 
> Ian
> 
> 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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