[GNC] Strange reconciliation behavior

Christopher Lam christopher.lck at gmail.com
Sun Apr 12 21:30:08 EDT 2020


As others have reported, this change was *meant* to be more strict in
interpretation of reconcile *statement_date* (which eventually becomes the
split's *reconciled date*). My suspicion is that your first successful
reconciliation used an incorrect *statement_date* which led to the second
reconciliation to fail. If you wished to continue with 3.9 you'd need to
unreconcile, re-reconcile with the correct *statement date*, then you would
find the next reconciliations to be uneventful. The incorrect statement
date *could* have been seen using the Reconciliation Report.

But 3.10 would be the next best option. It does not have many new changes;
it reverts the reconcile behaviour, adds a few more reconcile-related
warnings (without any calculation changes), and a few bug fixes.

On Sun, 12 Apr 2020 at 21:29, Art Chimes <artsonline at gmail.com> wrote:

> Strange to me, anyway.
>
> I have a long-closed U.S. mutual fund account (call it ABCDX) that was
> never reconciled since I started using GnuCash a year ago. Now I want
> to reconcile it, and I'm tackling it year-by-year.
>
> I reconciled the first year closing balance, 5,898.936 shares, without
> issue.
>
> Problems arose when I tried to reconcile the second year. I entered
> the statement date and the number of shares shown on the statement as
> of that date. The "Reconcile Information" box correctly shows the
> Starting Balance as 5,898.936 ABCDX shares.
>
> I clicked OK and the reconciliation window popped up. To my surprise,
> the info box in the lower right corner now shows the Starting Balance
> as 0 shares ABCDX, as if the first year's transactions were never
> reconciled. As a result I cannot reconcile this account.
>
> I am using GC 3.9 on Windows 10. I searched unsuccessfully in the
> usual places for an answer; my apologies if I missed it. Thank you
> all.
>
> Art
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