Reconciling an earlier date that the last reconciled

[papa.eric at free.fr]

Hi Gnucash helpers,

I would like to know how the initial reconcilied value is computed. I found a recent message in this list that seems related, but it has not helped me.

My problem: I have used gnucash to enter last year's transactions. I had decided to go backwards to 1st july. So I began with an initial balance, then reconciled each month.

Later I decided to add june. What I did : I changed the initial balance (ignoring the warning that it was reconciled), and added the june transactions. Then proceeded to reconcile june... but the initial amount in the reconcile window was wrong.

I then discovered that this initial amount was independent from the date. I had thought it was the sum of all reconciled items before that date, but no. In the doc I found it was the last reconciled amount, but this is not true, as mine was modfied after I modified a reconciled transaction value.

I have not been able to empirically figure how to recompute the reconcile value I get, to find what I should touch to get it right. I have tried to force reconciling (entering the final amount as that expected and reconciling all june transactions), but the initial amount for later reconciling is still wrong.

I suspect that the problem was trying to reconcile to a date before the last one... Of course, getting it right without understanding could help, too ;^)

Thanks for any help,
Eric