trouble just starting reconciliation

[Maf. King]

On Wednesday 16 August 2006 20:40, hendrik at topoi.pooq.com wrote:
> I'm running gnucash 1.8.10, the version that is distributed with Debian
> sarge.  I' having trouble with reconciliation of my chequing account.
>
> Specifically, when I *start* reconciling, before I've checked *any*
> transactions, the starting balance is different from the reconciled
> balance.
>
> How is that possible?  I thought they were both initialized to the sum
> of all reconciled transactions so far, and that subsequently, the
> reconciled balance would change when you checked off transactions and
> the check-marks appeared in the 'R' columns?
>
> Please, tell me how these things *are* computed, so that I can start to
> track down the discrepancy.
>
> And I am capable of hand-editing XML files, if that should end up being
> necessary (though I haven't done it yet, so that shouldn't be the
> trouble).
>
> -- hendrik
>
>

Hi Hendrik,

Is it possible that you have inadvertently deleted or altered an already 
reconciled transaction - possibly done from the "other" account?

I've done that before, and it has thrown the start/reconciled balances off.

HTH,
Maf.