[moneydance] unable to edit an individual transaction in a loan

[David Pesetsky]

At 10:25 AM -0400 5/7/06, Edward Reid wrote:
>At 10:01 05/07/06 -0400, David Pesetsky wrote:
>>Am I missing the trick?
>
>No, you're not missing anything, there are some problems here.[...]



>To add insult to injury, MD doesn't create split transactions in loans and
>so fails to recognize that they can occur in loan transactions imported
>from Quicken. [...]
>
>Worst of all: one of those split lines leads to another loan! I took out a
>loan and paid off another loan with the proceeds -- directly, without
>putting it in another account first. This means that NEITHER SIDE IS
>EDITABLE.

>  [...] Surely
>it's common to pay off one loan with another?

Yes, that is *exactly* my situation, and I agree it's not nice. 
Perhaps I can export the data file as XML and edit something directly.

-David
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