[Kmymoney] RES: RES: Cannot delete account

Fri Oct 23 08:21:12 UTC 2015

Rhaufed,

On Friday 23 October 2015 10:00:50 Email Terra Rhaufed wrote:

> Thank you very much.
> Let me be more specific and explain what I need to do so you can guide me in
> one single step:
> 
> I created a lot of investment accounts and its associated brokerage accounts
> to track my investments.
> As I need a little more control over my portfolio and it is becoming very
> disperse, I decided to use an specific software to handle my portfolio and
> decided to close all my investment accounts in KMM. The problem is that I
> have open trades in the investment accounts and so it does not balance to
> zero. What I'm doing is deleting each and every investment account
> transactions (open positions) and this will make my brokerage accounts to
> change its balance. That is fine.
> The next step is to close the brokerage account as such, because I do not
> want to consider these accounts in KMM anymore, but here I cannot delete the
> transactions, because I have money transferred from in use accounts to
> these broker accounts and doing so would cause my other accounts (those
> with transfers to and from the Broker accounts) to become incorrect.
> So, after closing the investments account, how do you suggest to handle my
> broker account, which will have a balance different from zero? The best
> option I came out with is to change each transfer transaction to something
> else (another category) and then delete the records in the broker account
> and close it?

This is what I would have suggested. 

> Doing this I suppose I could also delete the account, as it
> would not being referenced by any other accounts anymore. But I think it is
> better to only close them, because doing so I keep my accounts structure
> just in case.
> 
> If I close the how can I hide them from view? Is it possible?

There's an option that hides them. Settings/Configure KMyMoney/General/Filter 
has "Do not show closed accounts" as the second option. See attached 
screenshot.

Thomas

> -----Mensagem original-----
> De: KMyMoney [mailto:kmymoney-bounces at kde.org] Em nome de Thomas Baumgart
> Enviada em: sexta-feira, 23 de outubro de 2015 09:49
> Para: KMyMoney Users' mailing list <kmymoney at kde.org>
> Assunto: Re: [Kmymoney] RES: Cannot delete account
> 
> Rhaufed,
> 
> you can only close an account if its balance is zero. Otherwise it is still
> in use.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Thomas
> 
> On Friday 23 October 2015 09:42:49 Email Terra Rhaufed wrote:
> > Thank you,
> > 
> > But I realized that what I thought could be done is not true. If I
> > delete the accounts I cause issues on my balances (due to transfers
> > between those
> > accounts) so, it is better to only close them, but I this option is
> > not available for the accounts I want to close and I could not find
> > the close help.
> > 
> > Thank you
> > 
> > -----Mensagem original-----
> > De: KMyMoney [mailto:kmymoney-bounces at kde.org] Em nome de Thomas
> > Baumgart Enviada em: sexta-feira, 23 de outubro de 2015 08:48
> > Para: KMyMoney Users' mailing list <kmymoney at kde.org>
> > Assunto: Re: [Kmymoney] Cannot delete account
> > 
> > Rhaufed,
> > 
> > you should be able to delete an account if
> > 
> > - no transaction references it
> > - is not referenced by a budget
> > - is not referenced by a scheduled transaction
> > 
> > Maybe you can check into these items (most users still had a scheduled
> > transaction when it came to that question).
> > 
> > Regards
> > 
> > Thomas
> > 
> > On Friday 23 October 2015 08:26:40 Email Terra Rhaufed wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I've cleaned up my KMM database, deleting old accounts and unused
> > > ones. I could have chosen to close them, but deleting in my case was
> > > the right choice, because I do not need the data anymore. I deleted
> > > about 5 accounts but one I cannot delete, it has no records, no
> > > sub-accounts, no nothing; but I still cannot delete it. I can close
> > > it
> > 
> > however!
> > 
> > > Any help on how to delete it. I'm afraid the DB may be corrupted and
> > > cause further issues, despite it is working fine.
> > > 
> > > Thank you
> > > 
> > > Rhaufed
> > > 
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> > 
> > Thomas Baumgart
> > 
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