Hi All,

Trying to clean my records up but am getting this error when trying to remove my payee:

Cannot remove payee that is still referenced to a transaction thrown in /home/joel/Downloads/kmymoney-4.6.1/kmymoney/mymoney/storage/mymoneyseqaccessmgr.cpp:215


There are no transactions for this payee so not sure why I can't delete the payee. Actually happening for two different payees. Tried renaming and deleting and that didn't work. Thanks

Which version of KMyMoney is this? A few more questions:

a) Are there any transactions shown in the transaction list of the payee?
b) Do you have any matched transactions which are not yet accepted?

I'm running the latest release, installed from source just a few days ago.

I have no matched transactions at all, nothing shows up in the transaction list of the payee.

Bumping this old unanswered thread because I’m having the same problem, can’t delete several payees although they have no transactions. How can I find out where they are being referenced?

KMyMoney 4.7.1, using KDE development platform 4.14.3

Further investigation: Digging into the XML shows that the ghost payees all seem to be referenced by auto-matched transactions that I manually changed the payee of. The original payee still exists in the transaction record, but the transaction doesn’t show it in KMM.

Here’s an example. P000016 is legit, but I think the reference to P000028 should have been deleted when I changed the payee.

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  <TRANSACTION postdate="2015-02-02" commodity="USD" memo="" id="T000000000000000050" entrydate="2015-01-27">
   <SPLITS>
    <SPLIT payee="P000016" reconcileflag="0" shares="150/1" reconciledate="" action="" bankid="" account="A000023"         number="1177" value="150/1" memo="CHECK 1177" id="S0001">
     <TAG id="G000003"/>
    </SPLIT>
    <SPLIT payee="P000016" reconcileflag="2" shares="-150/1" reconciledate="" action="" bankid="ID 20321"                  account="A000001" number="1177" value="-150/1" memo="CHECK 1177&#xa;CHECK 1177 Trace # 991003702 02" id="S0002">
     <TAG id="G000003"/>
     <KEYVALUEPAIRS>
      <PAIR key="kmm-match-split" value="S0001"/>
      <PAIR key="kmm-matched-tx" value="&amp;lt;!DOCTYPE MATCH>&#xa;&amp;lt;CONTAINER>&#xa; &amp;lt;TRANSACTION            postdate=&quot;2015-02-02&quot; commodity=&quot;USD&quot; memo=&quot;CHECK 1177 Trace # 991003702 02&quot; id=&quot;&quot; entrydate=&quot;2015-02-07&quot;>&#xa;  &amp;lt;SPLITS>&#xa;   &amp;lt;SPLIT payee=&quot;P000028&quot; reconcileflag=&quot;0&quot; shares=&quot;-150/1&quot; reconciledate=&quot;&quot; action=&quot;&quot; bankid=&quot;ID 20321&quot; account=&quot;A000001&quot; number=&quot;&quot; value=&quot;-150/1&quot; memo=&quot;CHECK 1177 Trace # 991003702 02&quot; id=&quot;      S0001&quot;/>&#xa;  &amp;lt;/SPLITS>&#xa;  &amp;lt;KEYVALUEPAIRS>&#xa;   &amp;lt;PAIR key=&quot;Imported&quot; value=&quot;true&quot;/>&#xa;  &amp;lt;/KEYVALUEPAIRS>&#xa; &amp;lt;/TRANSACTION>&#xa;&amp;lt;/CONTAINER>&#xa;"/>
      <PAIR key="kmm-orig-memo" value="CHECK 1177"/>
      <PAIR key="kmm-orig-postdate" value="2015-01-30"/>
     </KEYVALUEPAIRS>
    </SPLIT>
   </SPLITS>
  </TRANSACTION>


Nice investigation, it seems that the payee in the match information does not get updated when deleting a payee, this sounds like a bug to me.