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[Feature] allow unlinking manually linked transfer transactions #2953
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Originally created by @zdimension on GitHub (Feb 20, 2026).
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Pitch: what problem are you trying to solve?
Say you have two transactions in your database. They already exist, for example from bank sync. You mark them as a transfer, using the transfer selection menu, but then later notice that was a mistake. Ctrl+Z only works immediately after, but assume you notice your mistake a long time later. There is no direct way to unlink the two transactions: changing the payee on one or the other of the transactions will delete the other.
The fastest way I found is to duplicate the first one, change its payee (which deletes the duplicated second), then change the payee of the original second (which deletes the original first one). You then end up with two transactions that are not linked. One could also simply delete both and recreate them from scratch, but this loses you the imported payee infio. Duplicating-and-deleting is currently the only lossless way to do this.
Describe your ideal solution to this problem
I think if exactly two transactions are selected, and the two are linked to each other, the "Make transfer" menu (which is currently greyed out in that case) simply should become something like "Unlink transfer" and clicking on it would just assign null to the payee and category of both, so the user can carry on.
I think this could also be made to show if exactly one transaction is selected and it's part of a transfer. Maybe clicking the action would then show "This will modify the matching transaction: [transaction info]".
Teaching and learning
I think putting it in the same place transfers are made is enough for discoverability. That's where I would look for it, at least.
@github-actions[bot] commented on GitHub (Feb 20, 2026):
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