Reconciliation: Incorrect Starting Balance

[Colin Law]

On 26 October 2013 21:43, David <dgpickett at aol.com> wrote:
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>  No easy way to unreconcile a whole account.

It appears that is true, but I can't understand how you got into this
mess in the first place, why were you modifying reconciled values?  I
can imagine having to correct occasional entries but not wholesale
changes of the like you seem to have done.

Colin

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> From: Tommy Trussell <tommy.trussell at gmail.com>
> To: DGPickett <dgpickett at aol.com>
> Cc: GNU Cash User <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> Sent: Fri, Oct 25, 2013 6:23 pm
> Subject: Re: Reconciliation: Incorrect Starting Balance
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> On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 3:13 PM, DGPickett <dgpickett at aol.com> wrote:
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> I had an account where I had been replacing reconciled transactions with
> copied more accurately split ones, and it was off even for the first
> transaction, which seems like a bug.
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> The most likely source of the "bug" is that the replacement splits that you entered don't add up the same as the originals.
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> Since the imbalance must be coming from deleted reconciled transactions down
> the time line, I made a fake transaction with a very low date, reconciled it
> using whatever balance worked and redated it way down the time stream.  Now,
> by changing that balance, I can get any reconciliation to work with the real
> balance of that date.  Once things are all reconciled again, I cannot delete
> that fake or they go off balance.
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> There should be a way to zap the account back to all 'n' with $0 balance
> reconciled, so it can be re-reconciled.  I was sad to see repair did not do
> this.
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> I may be misunderstanding what you want to do, but you cannot have it both ways -- I would think you you must either have accurate transactions OR correcting transactions to make the balances correct.
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> It sounds like you need to un-reconcile and re-reconcile ALL the transactions from the point where you deleted and re-entered them so you can find out where you made your mistake(s), rather than entering correcting transactions.
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