Failure to Balance

[Michael B. Trausch]

On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 23:07 -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:

> First thing I would try is "Check & Repair" which should make sure all
> your transactions are balanced.  This will add splits to the
> Unreconciled
> or Imbalance accounts.  From there, I dont know what to tell you.  It
> does sound like there are missing transactions that got deleted. 


Interesting.  I had a little bit of a problem balancing my GC file and I
had to print out the transaction log and go through them to find where
the problem was.  I even tried that Check & Repair thing (after I made a
backup, of course, because I didn't know exactly what C&R did).  What it
was, though, at least in my case, was the first of two transactions made
in a foreign currency.  GC somehow figured on making the exchange rate
1:1 for USD:GBP when I created my first GBP account, and when I paid it
off with a proper exchange rate was when the imbalance was created.

    — Mike

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   On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 23:07 -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:

     First thing I would try is "Check & Repair" which should make sure all
     your transactions are balanced.  This will add splits to the Unreconciled
     or Imbalance accounts.  From there, I dont know what to tell you.  It
     does sound like there are missing transactions that got deleted.

   Interesting.  I had a little bit of a problem balancing my GC file and I had
   to print out the transaction log and go through them to find where the
   problem was.  I even tried that Check & Repair thing (after I made a backup,
   of  course, because I didn't know exactly what C&R did).  What it was,
   though, at least in my case, was the first of two transactions made in a
   foreign currency.  GC somehow figured on making the exchange rate 1:1 for
   USD:GBP when I created my first GBP account, and when I paid it off with a
   proper exchange rate was when the imbalance was created.
       — Mike

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   Michael B. Trausch

                                                      [1]fd0man at gmail.com

   Phone: (404) 592-5746

   Jabber IM: fd0man at gmail.com
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