Starting Balance for reconciliation has changed

[Michael Hendry]

On 18 Mar 2014, at 00:58, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 3/17/2014 2:27 PM, Michael Hendry wrote:
>> On 17 Mar 2014, at 17:58, Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote:
>> 
>>> Michael Hendry <hendry.michael at gmail.com> writes:
>>> 
>>> [snip]
>>>> What I found was that the record of a monthly direct-debit for pet
>>>> insurance on 15th April 2013 had been changed from £21.28 to £40.38,
>>>> resulting in the bank balance being reduced by £19.10. Editing the
>>>> faulty (and already reconciled) transaction restored sanity to the
>>>> accounts.
>>>> 
>>>> This adjustment didn’t result in a warning that I was editing a
>>>> reconciled transaction - I seem to recall being warned in the past -
>>>> and the difference is the change in monthly payments that took effect
>>>> on 12th March 2014. I had changed the Scheduled Transaction on
>>>> receiving notification of the changed premium, but have no
>>>> recollection of making a retrospective adjustment.
>>> Most likely you told GnuCash to ignore this warning by clicking the
>>> "don't ask again" button.  You can (and should) reset this by running
>>> the Actions -> Reset Warnings function.  Then remember to be careful
>>> with that checkbox in the future :)
>> Done!
>> 
>> Interestingly, it’s the only warning that had been switched off, and I have no recollection of doing so.
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> 
>>>> Michael
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>>> -derek
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> I have had that happen to me as well.  I suspect that in earlier
> releases that particular warning is constructed in such a way that the
> default action is to clear the warning if the user is careless and
> misses the "change split" box when clicking.

The warning is certainly clear now.

>  Now is should be possible
> to select "Remember and don't ask me again this session" if we want to
> change several transactions.

It should very rarely be necessary to change a reconciled transaction, and I'm happy to be warned every time I attempt it. Although I can see the advantage of allowing this-session-only suspension of warnings, I wouldn’t want scarce developer-time to be used on it.

Michael

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