finding a deleted reconciled transaction

[Alice Lee]

The best solution would be to follow a practice of not deleting reconciled
transactions.  A high-end accounting program will not allow you to delete
transactions at all.  You should reverse the transaction in the current
period and not delete it.  You have a better record of the event and an
explanation for changing the transaction.  This is a free program which has
many functions.  I was grateful to find a program which will do all I need
for a small non-profit.  The software that I had been using cost $4000 to
get a version that would work with Windows 8.  I appreciate this program a
lot and all the work that has been put into it.

-----Original Message-----
From: gnucash-user
[mailto:gnucash-user-bounces+alee212007=satx.rr.com at gnucash.org] On Behalf
Of Derek Atkins
Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2015 1:33 PM
To: ihf
Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: finding a deleted reconciled transaction

ihf <irafuchs at gmail.com> writes:

> I have the warning turned on which is it all the more puzzling and 
> having had a similar problem years ago , I am very wary about changing 
> a reconciled transaction. Fortunately, it was only one transaction so 
> it was possible to find it in the log and it was from 3 weeks ago and 
> not years ago. A log dedicated to altered/deleted reconciled 
> transactions would be helpful as a backup to the warning.

Reconciling a transaction really only reconciles one split of a transaction.
When you're in the reconciled account gnucash will attempt to prevent you
from modifying or deleting reconciled transactions.
However if you attempt to edit it from the other side gnucash will not stop
you from modifying or deleting it.  So perhaps you deleted it from the other
side.

Another possibility is that when gnucash popped up the "are you sure?"
dialog you said yes.

Regardless, I'm glad you found the errant transaction.

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-derek

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