Cannot edit opening balance

[Dale Alspach]

Rather than changing the opening balance a correcting transaction needed
to be added. One side of the transaction would be the difference between
the incorrect starting balance and the correct starting balance and the
other side would be in Opening Balances or whatever caused the problem.
Next reconcile the account being sure to mark the correcting transaction
even though it does not match anything in the bank statement.

Once you have successfully reconciled the account, the starting balance
for the next reconcile will be the ending balance from this reconciliation.

Dale

On 12/13/2017 10:05 PM, Carmelo Pagán wrote:
> I tried that, but the reconcile window starting balance stayed fixed.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gnucash-user [mailto:gnucash-user-bounces+c.pagan=sbcglobal.net at gnucash.org] On Behalf Of Ronal B Morse
> Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2017 4:08 PM
> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Subject: Re: Cannot edit opening balance
> 
> Is there some reason you couldn't just change the opening balance in the register to the correct amount, then performing the reconcile?
> 
> RBM
> 
> 
> 
> On 12/12/2017 10:52 AM, Carmelo Pagán wrote:
>> I thank everyone for their feedback.
>>
>> I resolved it the painful way of creating a new file, downloading my transactions (Thanks to Bruno Acklin's posting of the settings I needed), then establishing the opening balances before reconciling the first time.  Fortunately, I am relatively new to GnuCash, so I only had to go through six months' worth of transactions.
>>
>> Lesson learned.
>>
>> Carmelo Pagan
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: gnucash-user 
>> [mailto:gnucash-user-bounces+c.pagan=sbcglobal.net at gnucash.org] On 
>> Behalf Of John Ralls
>> Sent: Monday, December 11, 2017 6:53 PM
>> To: DaveC49 <davidcousens at bigpond.com>
>> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
>> Subject: Re: Cannot edit opening balance
>>
>>
>>
>>> On Dec 11, 2017, at 2:51 PM, DaveC49 <davidcousens at bigpond.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> John,
>>>
>>> That is exactly what the Opening Balance dialog actually does in 
>>> Gnucash (it creates those entries) and once the entries have been 
>>> created they are easily edited either from the Opening Balances 
>>> register or from the register for the account for which you set the 
>>> opening balance,  just as you can edit any other transaction.
>> Yes, Dave, I know. But the OP said that he didn’t use the Opening Balance tab of the new account dialog, he created an Opening Balance transaction by hand afterwards. Since he didn’t use the dialog it’s possible he made a mistake and I instructed him how he might check for one and repair it if he needs to.
>>
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>>
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