GNUCash reconciled flag getting reset?

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Christoper Blunck <chris at thebluncks.com> writes:

[snip]
> 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.

Ah, but are you modifying reconciled transactions?  That would cause
them to get unreconciled.

Most likely what happened was that you modified a reconciled
transaction; the system popped up a dialog asking if you're sure you
want to do that, and you clicked 'yes' while also clicking the 'dont ask
me again'.

You can use Actions -> Reset Warnings to reset this flag.

> 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.

Your other option is to just re-reconcile the transaction(s) during your
next reconcile phase.  Assuming the transaction is still there just
ignore the starting balance and enter the correct ending balance and
re-select the transaction.

> Is anyone else seeing this phantom reconcile flag reversion?
>
>
> -c

-derek

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