Editing the "other side" of reconciled transactions

[Fred Bone]

On 13 Jan 2008 at 14:34, Donald Allen said:

> On Jan 13, 2008 2:01 PM, Phil Longstaff <plongstaff at rogers.com> wrote:
> >
> > Tim Jackson wrote:
> > > I've been using GnuCash for many years, and one thing puzzles me. I'm
> > > not sure whether this is something I've ever been able to do, or
> > > something that's changed in GC2:
> > >
> > > If I have a transaction reconciled on one side but not the other, why
> > > can't I change the account which the non-reconciled side is pointing to?
> > > This is very frequent when I, for example have a transaction like this:
> > >
> > >                              Debit   Credit
> > > Some Transaction:
> > >    Assets:My Bank Account    1.00
> > >    Expenses:Something                 1.00
> > >
> > > Now, I reconcile my bank accounts monthly (in accordance with the
> > > statements I receive), which is fine. However, I often want (e.g. at the
> > > end of a year) to "juggle around" the expenses to which payments are
> > > allocated, perhaps to gain a greater sense of granularity or just to
> > > make things more consistent. Logically (to me) I should be able to do
> > > this without affecting the reconciliation status, because I'm not
> > > changing the reconciled side of the transaction. However, GC doesn't
> > > appear to be allow me to do this without:
> > >
> > > - remembering the reconciled amount on the bank account
> > > - forcibly unreconciling the bank account side (which makes the account
> > >    reconciliation wrong)
> > > - Making the change
> > > - Re-reconciling the bank account with the previously-memorised figure
> > >
> > > This seems like a slow, "dangerous" (from the point of view of
> > > unreconciling stuff which is correctly reconciled) and wholly
> > > unnecessary procedure.
> > >
> > > I can't find anything in the docs, or an option to disable this behaviour.
> > >
> > > Can anyone convince me of why it works like this and/or give me a
> > > workaround? Or should I file a feature request? (or is there already one?)
> > >
> > What version are you using?  I can edit the other side of a reconciled
> > transaction in 2.2.3, and I am sure I've done it in previous versions.
> 
> I'm able to do it in 2.0.5.

Presumably, then, you have avoided replying "no, and don't ask me ever 
again" to the warning message that comes up when you do it - which is 
what I expect the OP did.