Reconcilliation

[David T.]

Well, it 's not my software, although I did write the documentation part about the differing opening balances, from comments made on the mailing lists a few years back. 
Are you saying that after selecting the transactions for reconciliation, your closing balances are still off?

The upshot of the documentation is to point out that the Opening balance is not critical--what matters is the Closing balance. If the closing balance in GnuCash agrees with your statement closing balance, then there is nothing to be concerned about. [Indeed, GnuCash's reconcile feature will not allow you to finish reconciliation until these numbers match.] The special notes in the reference guide page are meant to clarify that. 
As for viewing prior reconciliations, I know that some have expressed similar requests in the past. Typically, this takes the form of a request for a reconciliation report, for which workarounds have been suggested. Those workarounds won't help in your situation, unfortunately.
David
P.S., please also use Reply All. That way, others can step in and help when my meager attempts fall short.
      From: Charles Hillon <charleshillon at comcast.net>
 To: David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> 
 Sent: Wednesday, February 4, 2015 2:42 PM
 Subject: Re: Reconcilliation
   
Thanks. I’ve already read all that. Wish your software showed prior reconciliations. iBank’s software does that.



On Feb 4, 2015, at 4:41 PM, David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:
Charles, 

Try looking at 
http://gnucash.org/docs/v2.6/C/gnucash-guide/txns-reconcile1.html
Cheers,David

      From: Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com>
 To: Charles Hillon <charleshillon at comcast.net>; "gnucash-user at gnucash.org" <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> 
 Sent: Wednesday, February 4, 2015 12:45 PM
 Subject: Re: Reconcilliation
   
On 4 February 2015 at 20:17, Charles Hillon <charleshillon at comcast.net> wrote:
> I’ve only been using GnuCash for a couple of months & on this one account it’s happened on each reconciliation. The account balance is correct & agrees with my Quicken & iBank software, both of which are reconciling correctly. I’ll try to finesse it to reconcile & still show the correct balance. I wish GnuCash had a column for notes. Charles

Don't forget to use Reply All or Reply List when replying to emails
otherwise the post just goes to the last sender.  This list is a bit
unusual in that respect.  I am forwarding it.

Is this the first time you have reconciled it?  If so then perhaps you
may just need to insert an initial balance at the start.  If not then
the starting balance now should be the same as the ending balance the
last time you reconciled it.

Colin

>
>> On Feb 4, 2015, at 2:51 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 4 February 2015 at 19:23, Charles T Hillon <charleshillon at comcast.net> wrote:
>>> How do I change an erroneous starting balance in a reconciliation?
>>
>> If the account has previously been reconciled then this means that a
>> previous reconciled transaction has been deleted or edited (or
>> possibly that a transaction has been manually reconciled or
>> de-reconciled, not sure about that).  Ideally you should identify the
>> error and correct it.  Possibly by going to a recent backup and
>> working forwards from there.
>>
>> You can look through the log files looking for the error also.
>>
>> Colin
>

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