account cannot be deleted message is not precise enough

[Sebastian Schuberth]

Esp. as a new user, it's hard to understand which of http://homebank.free.fr/en/faq.php#faq1595 is not met in order to delete an account. As the application obviously performs these checks, it would be nice to show exactly which ones failed. (In my case, I've deleted all transactions from all accounts, and I'm clueless why I can't delete the accounts.)

[Maxime DOYEN (mdoyen)]

check your scheduled/template transaction, there might be one using this account

[Sebastian Schuberth (sschuberth)]

Both scheduled and template transaction are also empty, but I'm still getting "This account contains transactions and/or is part of internal transfers".

[Maxime DOYEN (mdoyen)]

Ok I may have a lead, of a ghost reference to it into an xfer transformed to a normal txn.

Could you open your file with a text editor and make some search text

- locate your <account key="x"
=> x will be a number

- then if you have removed txn from this account and template as well

a) you should not match when you search account="x"

b) if my hypothesis is correct, maybe you will have match when search dst_account="x"

if such match what is the flags="y" value ?
and if it is an <ope do you have a kxfer="z" value ?

thx

[Sebastian Schuberth (sschuberth)]

In my case, account `"1"` is the one I cannot delete. And in the XML file, I indeed have several `ope` tags with `account="1"`, but no `dst_account="1"`. Also no match for a "kxfer" string at all.

[Sebastian Schuberth (sschuberth)]

Shall I anonymize the file and attach it? Or will anonymizing break things?

[Sebastian Schuberth (sschuberth)]

Maybe I'm also simply not understanding the functioning correctly. My "imported account" that I cannot delete (although I believe to have deleted all transactions) shows "Reconciled 0", "Cleared 0", but still has (negative) amounts in "Today" and "Future". But if I double-click on it, the opening windows shows no transactions.

[Maxime DOYEN (mdoyen)]

you can anonymize, it will prevent ids by obfuscate text and sent by email, not here
see http://homebank.free.fr/en/support.php#contact

[Maxime DOYEN (mdoyen)]

made a few test and do not reproduce
=> so still interested to have an anonymized copy of the xhb file

[Maxime DOYEN (mdoyen)]

I am modifying the message to indicate the exact usage.

[Maxime DOYEN (mdoyen)]

done:

 _("It has transaction")
 _("It is target of xfer transaction")
 _("It has scheduled/template")
 _("It is target of xfer scheduled/template")

[Sebastian Schuberth (sschuberth)]

Anonymized data sent via mail!

[Maxime DOYEN (mdoyen)]

your file still have transaction, but none with a date

go to transaction menu
then show all
then open the filter with icon button or tools menu > filter
on date switch it to OFF
then click use

What is weird is all those txn with no date at all

[Sebastian Schuberth (sschuberth)]

I was testing HomeBank with my own Qif / Ofx exporters. Might be that I created / imported invalid files at some point. Should HomeBank generally refuse to import transactions without a date maybe?

Thanks for your instructions, I was able to delete the accounts afterwards.