diff --git a/src/db/db/dbManager.cc b/src/db/db/dbManager.cc
index 5e53b1a83..0a9e24016 100644
--- a/src/db/db/dbManager.cc
+++ b/src/db/db/dbManager.cc
@@ -156,16 +156,14 @@ Manager::cancel ()
     m_opened = false;
 
     if (m_current->first.begin () != m_current->first.end ()) {
-
       ++m_current;
       undo ();
-
-    } else {
-      //  empty transactions .. just delete
-      erase_transactions (m_current, m_transactions.end ());
-      m_current = m_transactions.end ();
     }
 
+    //  wipe following history as we don't want the cancelled operation to be redoable
+    erase_transactions (m_current, m_transactions.end ());
+    m_current = m_transactions.end ();
+
   }
 }