Steps to reproduce 1. Open a ledger 2. Select a transaction for editing 3. Try to remove a wrongfully guessed payee in the "Pay To"/"From" field and leave it empty Expected outcome No payee is present in the "Pay To"/"From" field Actual outcome The previously removed payee is still present in the "Pay To"/"From" field.
This is a (known?) bug in 5.0. For now, change the payee to a single space " " instead of making it blank. That will work to remove the payee from the transaction.
The workaround that I've been using is I have a blank payee at the very top of my payee list. When I am using the ledger I click on the payee and scroll all the way to the top using my mouse and select the "blank" payee and it will show greyed "Payer/Receiver" in the ledger. I then complete the rest of the transaction and click enter. Payee is removed and as I don't have any other info in the form then I see an account that I used as a transfer.
although this bug is actually earlier, the fix was logged against that one, so I'll let that one stand. The fix will be in 5.0.3 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 402120 ***