Serious reconciling problem after deleting an reconciled transaction

[Derek Atkins]

Elizabeth Dodd <edodd at billiau.net> writes:

> On Fri, 8 Jan 2010, David T. wrote:
>> Robin's tip echoes my own. You don't change the reconcile status in the
>>  register; you change it when you reconcile.
>> 
>> David
>> 
> I can confirm that this does not always work.

If it doesn't work then you're doing something wrong.

> I have had to put a balancing transaction in to make the reconciliation of one 
> account work, after I changed the account to which the transaction was linked
> I changed the transaction from one expense account to another and the credit 
> card reconciliation was thereafter broken.

So let's say you have a reconciled transaction from CC->Exp1 and you
change it to Exp2.  There are a couple things that can happen:

1) If you're in Basic view mode it will unreconcile the txn, in which
case re-reconciling will just work.
2) If you're in Expanded Split mode then it might NOT unreconcile the
txn, in which case you don't have to do anything.

UNLESS you change the 'CC' side to something else, just changing the
'Exp' side of the txn should NOT affect your ability to reconcile or
RE-reconcile the CC account!

Note that reonciliation makes no sense on Income or Expense accounts, so
yes, if you're trying to do that then moving a transaction would screw
you up.

If you had to add a balancing txn then you either:

a) deleted the transaction out of the CC acct, or
b) MOVED the txn out of the CC acct.

If it's just unreconciled due to changing the txn then a simple
re-reconcile will bring it all up to date.

-derek

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