How to un-reconcile an account?

[David T.]

Mark, 
For further information, it is not necessary to worry about the opening balance. Only the ending balance matters, really. See the Guide, section 4.4.1
David
 
 
  On Sun, Nov 6, 2016 at 1:44, Mark Phillips<mark at phillipsmarketing.biz> wrote:   For posterity -

1. I started at the bottom of my register, and just clicked on the "y" in
the reconcile (R), column, and the "y" became a "n". If you start in the
middle of the register, you get a "c", and I am not sure how that will
impact this process.

2. After "un-reconciling" all the transactions in the two accounts, I fixed
the incorrect transactions and added back in the ones I had deleted.

3. I then started from the top, and reconciled each month in order from the
beginning of the account. It all reconciled, and now all is good with the
world!

I first tried just adding in the deleted and missing transactions and then
re-reconciling the month with the problems, and I could not get the account
to reconcile because it had a huge negative starting balance. I was not
sure what to do with that, so I performed the steps above and everything is
now as it should be.

Thanks for all your help!!

Mark

On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 1:22 PM, Dennis Powless <claven123 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've done this before, and yes backup are very important :)  (Mine is
> always back up to dropbox all the time, so I don't have to go back in time
> too far)
>
> Just re-enter the data and then do the reconcile again.  The numbers will
> not be zero at the bottom while reconciling..... but it will work out after
> the reconcile is done. If I remember correctly.
>
> Dennis
>
> On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 2:28 PM, Bonnie Stroud <jbstroud at cox.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi Mark,
>>
>> I've been using GnuCash for a couple of weeks. 'n' means not reconciled.
>> 'c' means cleared and shows during the reconciliation process. 'y' means
>> reconciled. 'y' will show up after you finish the reconciliation.
>>
>> Bonnie
>>
>>
>> On 11/5/2016 11:11 AM, Mark Phillips wrote:
>>
>>> 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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