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> I can’t bulk edit transactions to reclassify them after the fact.

If you store your transactions in a plaintext format, why don't you use CLI tools? I just renamed a bunch of accounts using sed for instance, in a hledger journal.

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Transactions with a specific regex payee need to be reclassified into a specific expense account. Yes, I could write a sed script to do this. No, I will not write a sed script to do this.

UPDATE transactions SET account = "Income" WHERE account = "Expense";

sed 's/Expense:/Income:/'

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