Serious reconciling problem after deleting an reconciled transaction

[yetanother]

I have a somewhat similar problem.  I reconciled my checking account ($0
difference) and then imported transactions to a credit card account.  One of
the credit card transactions was a payment from my checking account (This
checking account transaction had been reconciled).  Let's say it was for
$20.

The description (payee) field was slightly different between what I had
manually entered in the checking account and in the imported credit card
transaction.  I missed this (mistake #1) and the transaction was entered as
a new withdrawal from my checking account, instead of matching up with the
reconciled one.

Mistake #2 was when I noticed the duplicate payments in my checking account
and I deleted the reconciled transaction instead of the newly added one.

Now when I attempt to reconcile I am off by the amount of the credit card
payment ($20).  The "new" $20 transaction is there in my checking account
register, but I can't mark it as reconciled, nor can I replace it with the
reconciled transaction that I mistakenly deleted (at least I don't know
how).  If I mark it as not cleared, my balance is correct, but the books
really aren't.

Any suggestions?

David T. wrote:
> 
> 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.
>> _______________________________________________
>> gnucash-user mailing list
>> gnucash-user at gnucash.org
>> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user
>> -----
>> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.
>> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
> 
> 
>       
> _______________________________________________
> gnucash-user mailing list
> gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user
> -----
> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.
> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
> 
> 

-- 
View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Serious-reconciling-problem-after-deleting-an-reconciled-transaction-tp18863272p27067009.html
Sent from the GnuCash - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.