Finding a stray transaction

[Colin Law]

On 26 February 2012 14:44, Grant <emailgrant at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 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?

Another possibility is to go back to your last backup and then work
forwards from then.
Or if you feel that you do not need to find exactly what caused the
problem then you could add a 'phantom' transaction to make the
reconcile work.

Colin


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