[GNC] Reconciliation

[Dale Alspach]

Something like this has happened to me (on linux Mint, several recent
versions of gnucash) though not exactly what you are reporting.
I do not usually check the starting balance so it could be the same. Here
is a description of what happens.

I mark the reconciliation box for some transactions in a register and move
around without ever hitting enter. This seems to leave these newly marked
transactions in an odd (uncommitted) state. Clicking Reconcile produces the
usual window with these transactions and previously marked transactions
listed as cleared. I complete the reconciliation and balances agree in the
reconciliation window. However upon finishing the reconciliation and
examining the register, I find that those uncommitted transaction changes
have been lost and those transactions are not marked reconciled. This will
disturb the balances for the next reconciliation.

My workaround is to alter the balance I enter as the statement balance by
the sum of these incorrectly marked transactions. It could be that if I
check that the starting balance is off by that amount.

Dale

On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 10:14 AM Jack Lockard <JELockard at outlook.com> wrote:

> For the past few months the starting balance shown by GNUcash did not
> match with the starting balance on the bank statement even though the
> reconciled balance shown by GNUcash for the previous months statement did
> indeed match the bank statement. I have completed the new reconciliation
> and the closing balance would again match with the bank statement.  I could
> not figure out what was going on but since the closing balance matched the
> bank statement I did not pursue it further.
>
> Until now. This month the starting balances do not match and it will not
> reconcile as it has in the past. The amount shown as out of balance does
> not match the difference between GNUcash's starting balance and the Banks
> starting balance. Something is out of whack someplace and I have no idea
> where to even begin to get it corrected.
>
> Any ideas? I could just start a new checking account and start fresh, but
> I have 7 years' worth of transactions in the checking account and would
> rather not lose that data.
>
> Jack
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