tag:infinitekind.tenderapp.com,2009-01-14:/discussions/switching-from-another-personal-finance-program/16384-batch-change-of-category-from-expense-to-income-transactions-are-deleted-in-bank-accountInfinite Kind: Discussion 2020-12-15T16:52:30Ztag:infinitekind.tenderapp.com,2009-01-14:Comment/482466242020-04-16T21:41:05Z2020-04-16T21:41:05ZBatch change of category from expense to income - transactions are deleted in bank account<div><p>I'm a fellow user.</p>
<p>Did you open the category register select the transaction and choose Batch Change Category? It sounds like you may have from your description.</p>
<p>If this is what you have done it is guaranteed to mess up the transactions, often very badly. When in a category register and you with to move the transactions to another category you must use Batch Change ACCOUNT.</p>
<p>To fix it you either have to painstaking find each of the transactions and fix each one up by hand, there is no automated process for this or restore from the last good backup and try again.</p>
<p>When working with category registers you need to be extremely careful, this is why it is generally not recommended to work with them directly.</p></div>dwgtag:infinitekind.tenderapp.com,2009-01-14:Comment/482466242020-04-17T08:13:40Z2020-04-17T08:13:40ZBatch change of category from expense to income - transactions are deleted in bank account<div><p>I am not support staff, just a user.<br>
Hi JoJo</p>
<p>Hope you were able to follow dwg advice and restore from a backup.</p>
<p>The process you need to follow to change categories, income/expenses is outlined by Kevin in a great post here <a href="https://infinitekind.tenderapp.com/discussions/problems/52779-changing-expense-category-to-an-income-category#comment_47104771">https://infinitekind.tenderapp.com/discussions/problems/52779-chang...</a></p>
<p>Hope this helps.</p></div>derekkent23tag:infinitekind.tenderapp.com,2009-01-14:Comment/482466242020-04-18T10:16:34Z2020-12-15T16:52:30ZBatch change of category from expense to income - transactions are deleted in bank account<div><p>HI DWG and Derekkent23, many thanks for your advice. Using batch change to ACCOUNT not CATEGORY has fixed the issue. The data was imported so there were no good backups so that wasn't an option and I was importing data from 2004 so doing each transaction wasn't an option either!!!!! I have now converted all the incorrect income categories to expense ones and the bank balances are still correct. thank you so much.</p></div>jojotag:infinitekind.tenderapp.com,2009-01-14:Comment/482466242020-04-18T10:29:22Z2020-04-18T10:29:22ZBatch change of category from expense to income - transactions are deleted in bank account<div><p>I am not support staff, just a user.<br>
Hi JoJo</p>
<p>Glad we were able to help.</p>
<p>Have Fun</p></div>derekkent23