How to un-reconcile an account?

[Mark Phillips]

For posterity -

1. I started at the bottom of my register, and just clicked on the "y" in
the reconcile (R), column, and the "y" became a "n". If you start in the
middle of the register, you get a "c", and I am not sure how that will
impact this process.

2. After "un-reconciling" all the transactions in the two accounts, I fixed
the incorrect transactions and added back in the ones I had deleted.

3. I then started from the top, and reconciled each month in order from the
beginning of the account. It all reconciled, and now all is good with the
world!

I first tried just adding in the deleted and missing transactions and then
re-reconciling the month with the problems, and I could not get the account
to reconcile because it had a huge negative starting balance. I was not
sure what to do with that, so I performed the steps above and everything is
now as it should be.

Thanks for all your help!!

Mark

On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 1:22 PM, Dennis Powless <claven123 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've done this before, and yes backup are very important :)  (Mine is
> always back up to dropbox all the time, so I don't have to go back in time
> too far)
>
> Just re-enter the data and then do the reconcile again.  The numbers will
> not be zero at the bottom while reconciling..... but it will work out after
> the reconcile is done. If I remember correctly.
>
> Dennis
>
> On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 2:28 PM, Bonnie Stroud <jbstroud at cox.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi Mark,
>>
>> I've been using GnuCash for a couple of weeks. 'n' means not reconciled.
>> 'c' means cleared and shows during the reconciliation process. 'y' means
>> reconciled. 'y' will show up after you finish the reconciliation.
>>
>> Bonnie
>>
>>
>> On 11/5/2016 11:11 AM, Mark Phillips wrote:
>>
>>> Colin and David,
>>>
>>> I have backups, but I agree with David that I don't want to reenter all
>>> the
>>> transactions for the past 4 months. I entered those transactions,
>>> reconciled 2 accounts, and found an error in the reconciliations, even
>>> though the accounts reconciled correctly. I want to un-reconcile the two
>>> accounts, fix the transactions, and then reconcile the accounts again.
>>>
>>> When I click on the "y" in the reconciled account, it changes to "c" and
>>> not "n". What does that mean? Should I do this?
>>>
>>> Can I just fix the transactions, ignoring the error messages about
>>> deleting/changing reconciled transactions, and then reconcile the
>>> accounts
>>> again from the beginning (June)?
>>>
>>> Mark
>>>
>>> On Nov 5, 2016 9:58 AM, "David" <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Colin,
>>>>
>>>> Yes, backups are important, but I know I wouldn't necessarily load a
>>>> backup in this situation. Loading a backup means I would lose all the
>>>> entries in my other accounts, which would really make things tough.
>>>>
>>>> Mark, if you know the transactions, of course, you can just reenter
>>>> them,
>>>> and reconcile to your most recent statement. Then, you just tick the new
>>>> transactions, and it all should match. Your only option otherwise, I
>>>> think,
>>>> is manual--as in, go through the later transactions and change them to
>>>> unreconciled in the register, and start over reconciling. That's how
>>>> I've
>>>> handled it in the past, at least.
>>>>
>>>> David
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ------------------------------
>>>> *From:* Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com>
>>>> *Sent:* Sat Nov 05 21:18:52 GMT+05:00 2016
>>>> *To:* Mark Phillips <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz>
>>>> *Cc:* Gnucash Users <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
>>>> *Subject:* Re: How to un-reconcile an account?
>>>>
>>>> On 5 November 2016 at 15:42, Mark Phillips <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> How do I un-reconcile an account?
>>>>>
>>>>> I deleted some reconciled transactions by mistake, so I want to
>>>>> un-reconcile the entire account and go back to before the transactions
>>>>> were
>>>>> deleted and reconcile the account again. I opened the account in June,
>>>>> and
>>>>> I don't mind going back to the very beginning and reconciling the
>>>>> account
>>>>> again from June1.
>>>>>
>>>>> Surely you have a backup of your accounts file since then. If not then
>>>> think seriously about your backup strategy. Remember a disc or PC can
>>>> go up
>>>> in smoke (literally or metaphorically) at any time.
>>>>
>>>> Colin
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>
>>>>> Mark
>>>>>
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