KMyMoney 4.6.6 - unable to delete or edit a transaction.

[timothy]

Are you sure that it was an actual transfer not just a withdrawal?

Timothy 


On Mon, 2018-06-04 at 18:16 +0100, Eric Watson wrote:
> 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
>