Finding a stray transaction

[Grant]

>>>> Thanks guys.  Finally found the problem.
>>>
>>> Okay, for the curious among us ---  what was the problem?
>>
>> Well, I taught my wife to manage gnucash for me.  My credit card was
>> reconciled but uncategorized.  My checking account was unreconciled.
>> She needed to delete duplicate credit card payments from the checking
>> account because they each appear from the checking account side and
>> the credit card side.  For a couple of those payments, she deleted the
>> reconciled credit card payment but didn't categorize the checking
>> account payment as a transfer to the credit card.
>>
>> Is there a better way to track something like that down than working
>> backward and going over every reconciled transaction?
>
> Probably not, no.  Well, the better way is to make sure your
> transactions all have the correct endpoints so you're never using the
> Imbalance accounts.  And those endpoints should *always* be set/assigned
> *during* the import process, so that the importer has a chance to notify
> you of potential duplicates.
>
> But beyond that, no, there's not really a better way.

Got it, thanks Derek.

- Grant