Account Balances Louse-up?

[Maf. King]

On Wednesday 07 April 2010 00:58:49 Felix Karpfen wrote:
> After some initial problems, I succeeded in setting up a set of
> accounts in GnuCash 2.2.6; the accounts had correct "Opening Balances"
> and appeared to be doing all the right things.
>
> But I have overreached <myself | my understanding of Gnucash features>.
>
> 24 hours after recording correct entries in my Income and Expenses
> Accounts, Gnucash automatically transferred these new entries to
> "Equity" and left me with zero balances in the Income/Expenditure
> (sub)-accounts.  The transfers were identified as a "split
> transaction" and entered as a "Rebate" in the <Income|Expenditure>
> accounts.  I consider this to be an undesirable automated routine.
>
> So what did I do wrong?

Hmm, strange.  Did you run Tools -> Close Book by mistake?

Can you open old backups (look in the same directory as your main data file, 
and look for <basename>.yymmddhhmmss.xac files), going back in time until you 
get back to some sensible data?

Maf.