[Kmymoney] RES: RES: RES: Cannot delete account

Fri Oct 23 08:24:00 UTC 2015

Thank you,

I had searched at options but did not notice it was hidden in the view tab.
My mistake.

Thank you!!!!

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De: KMyMoney [mailto:kmymoney-bounces at kde.org] Em nome de Thomas Baumgart
Enviada em: sexta-feira, 23 de outubro de 2015 10:21
Para: KMyMoney Users' mailing list <kmymoney at kde.org>
Assunto: Re: [Kmymoney] RES: RES: Cannot delete account

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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> > 
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