Reconciliation: Incorrect Starting Balance

[David]

 No easy way to unreconcile a whole account.

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Tommy Trussell <tommy.trussell at gmail.com>
To: DGPickett <dgpickett at aol.com>
Cc: GNU Cash User <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Sent: Fri, Oct 25, 2013 6:23 pm
Subject: Re: Reconciliation: Incorrect Starting Balance


On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 3:13 PM, DGPickett <dgpickett at aol.com> wrote:


I had an account where I had been replacing reconciled transactions with
copied more accurately split ones, and it was off even for the first
transaction, which seems like a bug.



The most likely source of the "bug" is that the replacement splits that you entered don't add up the same as the originals.


 
Since the imbalance must be coming from deleted reconciled transactions down
the time line, I made a fake transaction with a very low date, reconciled it
using whatever balance worked and redated it way down the time stream.  Now,
by changing that balance, I can get any reconciliation to work with the real
balance of that date.  Once things are all reconciled again, I cannot delete
that fake or they go off balance.

There should be a way to zap the account back to all 'n' with $0 balance
reconciled, so it can be re-reconciled.  I was sad to see repair did not do
this.





I may be misunderstanding what you want to do, but you cannot have it both ways -- I would think you you must either have accurate transactions OR correcting transactions to make the balances correct.


It sounds like you need to un-reconcile and re-reconcile ALL the transactions from the point where you deleted and re-entered them so you can find out where you made your mistake(s), rather than entering correcting transactions.
 

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