Serious reconciling problem after deleting an reconciled transaction

[David T.]

I believe that if you ignore the incorrect opening balance and reconcile to the closing balance, everything should work out fine.

Of course, I could be wrong.

David


--- On Wed, 8/6/08, Scott Simpson <simpson100 at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Scott Simpson <simpson100 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Serious reconciling problem after deleting an reconciled transaction
> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Date: Wednesday, August 6, 2008, 7:59 PM
> I had a transaction that was listed as $28.50. I reconciled
> it in the
> previous month. However, it was actually incorrect so I
> deleted it and
> entered $2850.00 instead (that is, I deleted a reconciled
> transaction). Now I can't reconcile my statement
> because my starting
> balance is incorrect and it won't allow me to edit the
> starting
> balance in the reconcile window. Additionally, I have no
> way of
> putting the $28.50 transaction back and setting it to
> reconcile 'y'
> since the UI won't allow me to change it that way. I
> wish I had never
> deleted it and gotten myself into this pickle.
> 
> How is the starting balance computed and how can I fix
> this? Thank you.
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