[GNC] Present Reconcile Is Showing Previous Reconciled Items UnReconciled

[Matt Hanning]

Thank you for sharing your thoughts. After reading everything I believe I
have been editing the transactions which makes them show back up
un-reconciled. I will be keeping a closer eye on this and see if this has
been the problem all along.

Thank you both for all your help and info.Matt


On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 12:30 AM D via gnucash-user <
gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:

> David's points here are all well-considered. See notes inline.
>
> On January 10, 2019, at 9:42 AM, David Cousens <davidcousens at bigpond.com>
> wrote:
>
> >Normally the only way a reconciled transaction becomes unreconciled is if
> the
> >split to the account which has been reconciled is editied, either in the
> >register for the reconciled account or in another register conatining the
> >split from the reconciled account to that registers. The splits of a
> >transaction can be edited from any register for any account which contains
> >splits to it from the transaction. In V3.4 editing details (description,
> >memo) other than the amount, date and account does not affect the
> >reconciliation flag status.  You will normally get a dialogue indicating
> >that you are editing a reconciled split.
> >I think earlier versions of GnuCash may have also changed the status when
> >other splits and any information in a reconciled transaction were edited
> >were edited but I am unsure of this and when only editing specific fields
> in
> >the reconciled split triggered changing of the status was introduced.
> >The easiest way to fix this is to rerun the reconciliation process for
> >periods covering the earliest unreconciled transaction forward, checking
> >that opening balances, closing balances and transaction amounts agree with
>
> I disagree here. I think the easiest first method is to enter the *last*
> statement balance (ignoring the opening balance altogether), and see
> whether checking those earlier entries results in a zero balance. I often
> find that it does.
>
> I only go to more specificity if this one doesn't work.
>
> >the statements. GnuCash will often start the reconciliation window with
> some
> >transactions marked even if that period has not been previously reconciled
> >as it attempts to identify transactions which lead to a reconciliation. I
>
> For the record, Gnucash pre-checks only those transactions that have a
> reconcile status of "c," which usually occurs with imported transactions.
> Users can also set this status in the register themselves.
>
> >have been caught believing this in the past and I now clear (uncheck) all
> >transactions in the reconciliation window and match them individually by
> >hand. Tedious but it can pick up 2 errors cancelling each other out so
> that
> >the opening and closing balances are OK but the transactions are
> incorrect.
> >Any unreconciled transaction should show up in the reconciliation
> procedure
> >window as unchecked with any already reconciled splits being initially
>
> Again, transactions with a status "c" will be checked; reconciled items by
> definition will be excluded from the window (except insofar as they
> contribute to the opening balance figure).
>
> OP might check to see whether he accidentally re-entered transactions that
> have already been entered and reconciled, as might happen, for example when
> importing transactions from a second account (say a credit card) whose
> transaction details don't fully match the existing entry.
>
> The OP could supply further details (OS, Gnucash version, specific
> circumstances of his problem) to get better answers. Until then, we are
> speculating on a host of possibilities.
>
> David T.
>
>
> >checked which can help identify the unreconciled transactions
> >David Cousens.
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