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

[Scott Zahn]

I just thought about something with this.  Let me know if I'm on crack 
with this idea.  It seems there is an intermediate account at work here 
called cash that you guys aren't thinking about.  When you take out a loan 
to pay off another loan "directly", really what's happening is you take 
out a loan and the amount goes into "cash", then you withdraw from "cash" 
and pay off the other loan.

On Sun, 7 May 2006, David Pesetsky wrote:

> Date: Sun, 7 May 2006 10:37:33 -0400
> From: David Pesetsky <pesetsk at MIT.EDU>
> Reply-To: General discussion related to Moneydance
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> To: General discussion related to Moneydance <moneydance-info at moneydance.com>
> Subject: Re: [moneydance] unable to edit an individual transaction in a loan
> 
> 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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