GNUCash reconciled flag getting reset?

[Christoper Blunck]

Hello,

I've been using GNUCash for roughly 8 years now and over the years
I've noticed a bug that's quite annoying. I wanted to pass it along to
the user list to see if anyone has experienced something similar.  I
don't know exactly what steps to follow to reliably reproduce it but
I'm hoping that if anybody else out there has had similar problems
they can speak up and maybe get an idea of the cause of this quite
annoying problem.

Preface:  I'm running GNUCash 2.4.7 built from rb5bdf19+ on 2011-08-01
under OSX Lion but this problem has existed on other older versions of
GNUCash including those running on Linux.

I keep my books in a SVN repository so that I can svn export previous
versions when problems like this occur.

The reconciled flag seems to get reset for some strange unknown reason.

Say I have a reconciled balance of $100 and it is June 5, 2011.  Now
say I add a few deposits and some withdrawals and it's now June 30 and
I have my statement.  From time to time I'll go to the reconcile
screen and sure enough a withdrawal that was previously reconciled as
part of the May 31st reconciliation is now flagged as unreconciled!

I enter a lot of transactions and over time inevitably these
previously reconciled transactions creep back in and become
unreconciled.  I'm 100% positive that I am NOT clicking the Reconciled
flag in the account register.

When this happens I tend to svn revert my books back to the last date
where the reconciled flag was correct and then I re-journal.  It sucks
though because sometimes there are major splits in there (e.g. CC)
that I end up redoing.

Is anyone else seeing this phantom reconcile flag reversion?


-c

-- 
Christopher Blunck
chris at thebluncks.com