Finding a stray transaction

Grant emailgrant at gmail.com
Sun Feb 26 09:44:56 EST 2012


>> I'm trying to find the transaction or transactions which are
>> preventing one of my gnucash accounts from reconciling.  The latest
>> month I'm trying to reconcile checks out itself, so there must be a
>> problem in a previous month.  Does anyone have any advice for tracking
>> down the problem?
>>
>> The only thing I can think of is manually un-reconciling each
>> transaction in each previous month so I can test re-reconciling each
>> month until I find the problem.  That would be an insanely laborious
>> process.
>
> Does the Starting Balance for the latest statement agree with the
> starting balance in Gnucash reconcile dialog.  If not then you are
> correct, it is a problem with a previous reconcile.  Possibly a
> reconciled transaction has been modified after reconcile.
>
> Colin

They do not agree so I think I've got a problem with a previous
reconcile.  Do I need to manually un-reconcile each previous
transaction one-by-one and re-reconcile each statement?

- Grant



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