Serious reconciling problem after deleting an reconciled transaction

[Robin Chattopadhyay]

I've done this several times before while I was getting up and running in
GnuCash.

Re-reconcile the checking account (ignore the starting balance). When you
see the reconcile window, your $20 will appear on the right and mark that
transaction and that should bring the reconcile window into balance.

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 3:05 PM, yetanother <ereeder at mailup.net> wrote:

>
> 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.
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