KMyMoney 4.6.6 - unable to delete or edit a transaction.

[Eric Watson]

Hi Jack,

The actual pysical bank shows the transfer occurred correctly. It is the 
entries in KMM which are incorrect. Account A1 is less £500 but account 
B1 never received the transaction. Therefore the total Assets are £500 
less than they should be in KMM. (Not in the actual bank!). £500 has 
gone missing in KMM!

If I delete the transaction in A1 I can then re-make it and hopefully, 
this time it will show as a deposit by transfer in B1, making the Assets 
total correct.

Well, for some reason the money left one account but did not appear in 
the other in KMM.

As  said in my post, yes I get a pop-up 'Transactions options' list when 
hovering over the entry but the only entries in the list which are not 
grayed out (unusable), are new, move or mark. Both delete and edit are 
grayed out.

On the same day, at the same time I made an identical £500 transfer from 
A1 to C1 and the 'Transaction options' list is correct, all entries are 
available, none grayed out and the transaction took place correctly.

The error therefore is; why are some entries grayed out? Also, why did 
the transfer not appear in the other account?

I have saved the file but don't know what you mean by, "consistency 
check". It opens ok again without any change.

Eric

On 04/06/18 17:29, Jack wrote:
> On 2018.06.04 11:40, Eric Watson wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> In my Ledger I have and entry which was made as a payment transfer of 
>> funds to a savings account in the Ledger.
>>
>> The funds were never actually transferred but are recorded in the 
>> originating account as transferred.
>>
>> eg. A1 account transfers £500 to B1 account. A1 account total is 
>> correct but B1 account is £500 short.
>>
>> I would like to delete the entry in A1 account and remake it so the 
>> transfer amount appears in the B1 account.
>>
>> When I right click on the bad entry I get the Transfer options menu. 
>> On this menu both edit and delete are grayed out leaving the only 
>> options, new, move or mark.
>>
>> Advice would be appreciated please.
>>
>> Eric
> Just to be sure I understand, you created a transaction which 
> transferred £500 from account A1 to account B1, and the bank does show 
> the money has left A1, but it has not yet arrived in B1. However, I am 
> not sure what you are trying to do.  If you delete the transaction 
> from A1, then will it not have £500 extra?  Also, since KMM follows 
> the principles of double entry bookkeeping, any money leaving one 
> account has to be added to some other account.
>
> However, if the program will not let you edit the transaction, we have 
> to figure out why.  If it will let you move or mark it, then it really 
> should let you edit or delete.  If you just hover the mouse over the 
> transaction, is there any popup indicating any sort of error 
> condition?  If you save the file, does the consistency check show any 
> error about that transaction?
>
> Jack