How to un-reconcile an account?

[Mark Phillips]

Colin and David,

I have backups, but I agree with David that I don't want to reenter all the
transactions for the past 4 months. I entered those transactions,
reconciled 2 accounts, and found an error in the reconciliations, even
though the accounts reconciled correctly. I want to un-reconcile the two
accounts, fix the transactions, and then reconcile the accounts again.

When I click on the "y" in the reconciled account, it changes to "c" and
not "n". What does that mean? Should I do this?

Can I just fix the transactions, ignoring the error messages about
deleting/changing reconciled transactions, and then reconcile the accounts
again from the beginning (June)?

Mark

On Nov 5, 2016 9:58 AM, "David" <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Colin,
>
> Yes, backups are important, but I know I wouldn't necessarily load a
> backup in this situation. Loading a backup means I would lose all the
> entries in my other accounts, which would really make things tough.
>
> Mark, if you know the transactions, of course, you can just reenter them,
> and reconcile to your most recent statement. Then, you just tick the new
> transactions, and it all should match. Your only option otherwise, I think,
> is manual--as in, go through the later transactions and change them to
> unreconciled in the register, and start over reconciling. That's how I've
> handled it in the past, at least.
>
> David
>
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Sat Nov 05 21:18:52 GMT+05:00 2016
> *To:* Mark Phillips <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz>
> *Cc:* Gnucash Users <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> *Subject:* Re: How to un-reconcile an account?
>
> On 5 November 2016 at 15:42, Mark Phillips <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz>
> wrote:
>
> > How do I un-reconcile an account?
> >
> > I deleted some reconciled transactions by mistake, so I want to
> > un-reconcile the entire account and go back to before the transactions were
> > deleted and reconcile the account again. I opened the account in June, and
> > I don't mind going back to the very beginning and reconciling the account
> > again from June1.
> >
>
> Surely you have a backup of your accounts file since then. If not then
> think seriously about your backup strategy. Remember a disc or PC can go up
> in smoke (literally or metaphorically) at any time.
>
> Colin
>
>
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Mark
> >
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