[GNC] redoing reconciliation

[Adrien Monteleone]

You’re welcome.

If it were just a one-off or a handful, especially after some time has elapsed, then I’d just do them one at a time.

Note, when you change a transaction, it will automatically un-reconcile. You don’t have to change the flag first. When you edit a reconciled transaction you should get a warning about this unless you’ve turned the warning off. (which can be reset via Actions > Reset Warnings)

If you have a batch to fix and want to keep track of them more easily, perform a Find that gets you the subset of target transactions and work from the resulting search window to make your edits. Then close that results tab, and re-reconcile the original account using the last reconciliation’s date and ending balance.

You can reconcile at any time and you don’t have to wait to combine these fixes in your next regular process if you don’t want to. When I have to change a reconciled transaction, I just re-reconcile on the spot so I don’t have to worry about it later. (there is a long standing bug about *what* edits should un-reconcile a transaction. Presently, simply fixing a typo in a description will trigger this.)

By the way, having that pre-reconcile backup is handy if you later make edits and need to compare two versions of a transaction. Some might suggest making another copy immediately after the reconcile as well for that same reason. Either might be overkill for some, but others may find time saved finding errors or changes at the cost of a few clicks every now and then.

Regards,
Adrien

> On Jun 11, 2020 w24d163, at 12:39 PM, Gio Bacareza <gbacareza at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks Adrien. That's a great solution indeed. However I only discovered about the fluke transaction which made it necessary for me to repeat the reconciliation process months after. Therefore there have been many transactions after that. Thanks.
> 
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2020, 1:17 AM Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
> If you don’t have one this time, make a habit in the future of saving a copy of your datafile as a backup before each reconcile.
> 
> Then rolling that back is as simple as opening the backup instead of the current file.
> 
> Of course, that would be complicated by anything you enter between reconciling and when you decide to roll it back if you don’t do it right away.
> 
> Regards,
> Adrien
> 
> > On Jun 11, 2020 w24d163, at 5:11 AM, Gio Bacareza <gbacareza at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi David,
> > 
> > Sorry my question was a bit confusing after reading it again. What I meant
> > to say was that they are already reconciled, ie R. But then I want to
> > UN-Reconcile it because I needed to. I was just wondering if there's a
> > better way to UN-R transactions than having to click each back to N.
> > 
> > Thanks