? Corruption of reconciliation history

[Maf. King]

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Maf.


On Tue 9 April 13 09:53:25 Maf. King wrote:
> On Tue 9 April 13 08:37:31 Michael Hendry wrote:
> > I last reconciled my current account on 15th February, against a statement
> > dated 5th February.
> > 
> > Today I went to reconcile the same account against a statement dated 5th
> > March, but the "Reconcile Information" window says:
> > 
> > Statement Date: 05/02/2013 (UK date format)
> > Starting Balance £4667.77
> > Ending Balance £3533.65
> > 
> > This Starting Balance is incorrect for either the 5/02/2013 or the
> > 05/03/2013 statement.
> > 
> > I opened the backup copy of the 15th February, and went to reconcile the
> > account, and got the following in the "Reconcile Information" window:
> > 
> > Statement Date: 05/03/2013
> > Starting Balance £3158.20
> > Ending Balance £4750.47
> > 
> > These figures are what I expected to see when I went to reconcile the
> > current file today.
> > 
> > The current GnuCash file seems to have the 5th Feb statement's
> > transactions
> > marked as reconciled (I haven't checked absolutely every one against the
> > paper statement), and it looks as though whatever method GnuCash uses to
> > keep track of past reconciliations has failed here.
> > 
> > I really don't want to have to go back to the 15 Feb backup, and re-enter
> > everything!
> > 
> > Is there some way of fixing this without going back to the 15 Feb backup
> > and re-entering everything from then on?
> > 
> > Michael
> 
> Hi Michael,
> 
> The advice that I have seen given on the list is that you should just ignore
> the starting balance, set the ending balance to match what is on your march
> statement and see if you can make the account reconcile.
> 
> If you can't get the reconcile to work, then you have to do some digging.
> Most likely, you have altered or deleted a transaction that was already
> reconciled, and that may take some finding....
> 
> HTH,
> Maf.