Reconciled statements

[Linas Vepstas]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 02:28:06AM -0700, Dave Peticolas was heard to remark:
> "Felgentraeger, Marcel" writes:
> > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> > > Von:	Dave Peticolas [SMTP:dave@krondo.com]
> > > Gesendet am:	Mittwoch, 25. April 2001 11:12
> > > An:	Felgentraeger, Marcel
> > > Cc:	gnucash-user@lists.gnumatic.com
> > > Betreff:	Re: AW: Reconciled statements 
> > > 
> > > "Felgentraeger, Marcel" writes:
> > > > 
> > > > The problem is, that all the balances are correct. What gnucash shows me
> > is
> > > > exactly what
> > > > my bank thinks I got. Thats true for every transaction and balance I
> > made
> > > > since then. If I enter
> > > > the 100$ now, gnucash treats it as a new transaction, therefore shows me
> > > > 100$ less than I got,
> > > > since gnucash thinks that the deleted transaction is still there and
> > > > everything is fine. I tried reentering,
> > > > but I didn't adjust the balance. I will try this. Maybe it works. Will
> > keep
> > > > you informed :)
> > > 
> > > If you bank account in gnucash is missing the transaction, how is it
> > > than it shows you the same balance as your bank ?
> > 
> > Guess thats the problem. I had this transaction entered twice, reconciled
> > the whole thing,
> > thereby leaving one of those two unchecked. Therefore all balances are
> > correct, gnucahs, bank
> > and so forth. Only difference: the one transaction I entered twice, but
> > there should have been
> > no problem, since it was not reconciled. So I deleted that transaction. Or
> > so I thought. 
> > 
> > Next time I reconciled I had that transaction in the reconciled window, not
> > reconciled. Thus I think
> > I deleted the allready reconciled transaction. If I reconciled the now shown
> > transaction I got unbalanced
> > accounts, thus I didn't do it and deleted it => I now have balanced
> > accounts, but no trace of the 
> > mentioned transaction. If I reenter it and try to reconcile I get unbalanced
> > accounts and have those
> > 100$ less money. :-( 
> 
> Ok, but if you've deleted both transactions at this point, how is it
> that gnucash currently shows the same balance as the bank? With both
> transactions gone, the gnucash balance should be $100 short, right?
> 
> Maybe you still have one of the original transactions, but there is
> no transfer account?

My guess is that the transaction is still there (which is why the balance is
right) but that the date was accidentally changed to 1986 or 2010 or something 
like that, and so the transaction isn't 'visible'  (because the register
only shows some small number of transactions clustered around the current
date). 

How about this: for unreconciled transactions, maybe we should minimize/get
rid of the 'are you sure' dialogs; and for 'cleared' splits, we should have an
'are you sure' dialog as it stands today,  and for reconciled splits, we 
should have a 'really, really, we will ask you twice are you sure?' dialog ...

--linas


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