Reconciliation problem - State of transaction as reconciled is not preserved.

[Avner]

Hello,

The state indeed changes from "n" to "c" in the "R" column in the register
account page. However, the problem is that after ticking transactions in the
Reconcile dialog box, postponing, and then reopening the Reconcile dialog
box, the transactions appear as NON ticked.
So you have no indication of what is already reconciled once you are
resuming the reconciliation.
This happens only for some of the newer transactions (for earlier
transactions the ticked state is preserved when resuming the
reconciliation). Therefore I suspect that this has something to do with the
new import or with the growing list of transactions. 


On another note, you mentioned that: "The OFX importer will mark
duplicate/matched transactions as cleared".
What does "duplicate/matched" mean? 
I noticed that if you import two files with overlapping transactions (e.g. a
file with transactions for the months of October/November and a file with
transactions for the months of November/December) then duplicate
transactions are handled correctly (i.e. do not show up twice)

I have experienced this problem with Gnucash 2.2.7 and 2.2.8 on Windows XP
and Windows Vista

Regards,
Avi



xxxxx-----Original Message-----
xxxxxFrom: Derek Atkins [mailto:warlord at MIT.EDU]
xxxxxSent: Sunday, December 28, 2008 7:55 AM
xxxxxTo: Avner
xxxxxCc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
xxxxxSubject: Re: Reconciliation problem - State of transaction as
xxxxxreconciled is not preserved.
xxxxx
xxxxxHi,
xxxxx
xxxxxQuoting Avner <avner-moshkovitz at shaw.ca>:
xxxxx
xxxxx> Hello,
xxxxx>
xxxxx> I have a problem with reconciling transactions on my credit card
xxxxxaccount.
xxxxx> After importing new transactions into gnucash, the reconciled state
xxxxxof the
xxxxx> new transactions is not preserved.
xxxxx>
xxxxx> I downloaded a new period of credit card transactions from the credit
xxxxxcard
xxxxx> online banking site and imported it into my gnucash data file.
xxxxx>
xxxxx> I reconcile some of the new transactions, choose Postpone, save the
xxxxxdata to
xxxxx> file and exit gnucash.
xxxxx>
xxxxx> After reopening the gnucash application, the transactions show up as
xxxxxnot
xxxxx> reconciled.
xxxxx>
xxxxx> I have tried doing the same for transactions from a previous import
xxxxx> successfully, i.e. the reconciled state is preserved
xxxxx>
xxxxx> I suspect that this have to do with gnucash handling growing amount
xxxxxof
xxxxx> transactions.
xxxxx>
xxxxx> Alternatively this may be related to multiple importing. I'm using
xxxxxGnucash
xxxxx> 2.2.7 I have also tried version 2.2.8 with no success
xxxxx>
xxxxx> Thanks,
xxxxx>
xxxxx> Avi
xxxxx
xxxxxWhen you Postpone the reconciliation it will NOT mark the transactions
xxxxxas RECONCILED (y).  However, it SHOULD mark the items as Cleared (c).
xxxxx
xxxxxThe QIF importer doesn't touch the reconciliation bits at all.
xxxxxThe OFX importer will mark duplicate/matched transactions as cleared.
xxxxx
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xxxxx
xxxxx-derek
xxxxx
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