account undeletable

[Gary Kirkpatrick]

thanks, I'll look into this further

There are no transactions showing for this acct.  It is called
'undeletable' and in fact is not deletable.

gary

On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 5:08 PM Jack <ostroffjh at users.sourceforge.net>
wrote:

> On 2018.06.18 10:54, Gary Kirkpatrick wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > There is now an account in my list called z-undeletable. We did not
> > put it there.  There are no transactions in the ledger.  Any idea
> > what this is and how to get rid of it?
> >
> > This file was originally created on my ubuntu 16 laptop and then
> > transferred to a Windows 10 computer.  I doubt that has anything to
> > do with it but reporting it just in case.
> >
> > thanks for any assistance
> Hi Gary,
>
> My first question is whether the program won't allow you to delete it,
> or if that is just in the name?
>
> An account cannot be deleted if there is anything else in the file
> referring to it.  Aside from transactions, it could be referred to in a
> Schedule, for example.  Also, are you sure there are no transactions
> which are just not being shown due to a date filter?  You might try a
> report by transactions, showing All Dates, to check that.
>
> The next method would be to look at the data file directly.  If it is a
> .kmy file, you can copy it (don't use the original) to file.xml.gz and
> then gunzip it.  Then search (grep or your favorite tool) for a line
> with z-undeletable.  There should be a line starting with <ACCOUNT.  On
> that line, find the field id="Annnnnn" and then search for that
> identifier in the file.  Hopefully any lines which show up should
> indicate what type of entry still exists and needs to be deleted before
> you can delete the account.
>
> Jack



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