[GNC] My begining balance is wrong

Thu Oct 14 09:32:19 EDT 2021

Good Morning,
I am running
Version: 4.4
Build ID: 4.4+(2020-12-28)
 on windows 10.

I am having reconcile issues.  Last night I got help from David H and was
so frustrated I just quit for the night.
I got up this morning and when I clicked to reconcile, my beginning balance
was back to the correct amount.
Yes, I suspect I am loosing my mind, it was back to the correct amount so I
went forward with the reconcile and finished it.

This is hard to explain.  Yesterday, if I left reconcile and clicked to
postpone, when I went back to reconcile, the marked transactions were no
longer marked.  This happened twice.  That was part of the frustration and
why I just quit last night.

So today, while reconciling, rather than leave, I jumped back and forth
from the check register that was open in the background to the reconcile to
enter the few transactions that were on my bank statement but had not been
put in the register.  I had put these transactions in yesterday but they
were gone today.
By jumping back and forth, I was able to complete the reconcile and save
the file.

After I clicked finish and then clicked the save button on the menu bar, I
did a file> save as and saved what I hope is a complete backup to my
downloads file.  I was trying to achieve a stop/start point at the
completion of the reconcile.  I did this with QB everymonth and I am not
sure why I quit doing it with gnucash when I started using it at the
beginning of this year.
Now, however, since I did the save as, it appears gnu is saving every time
to downloads instead of where I had it set to auto save to which is my
company files.
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So here are my questions.
Does anyone have any idea why my system reverterted back to a month
previous?
Why would my reconcile not be saving the reconcile when I ask to postpone?
How do I get my files backing up to my "company files" file where I
normally save them?

Could having a version of quickbooks open at the same time as gnucash have
caused these issues?  I had quickbooks open to get a report from last year
for the accountant.

One last question, will I ever become competant with this program?  I used
QB for 25 years and knew how to work with it but the thought of paying $200
a year for a program you should be able to buy, just killed me so I went to
gnucash.  I have been using gnucash since Jan 2021 and I am amazed that  I
am still struggling with split transactions not balancing!!  I am just
lamenting.  I know there is no answer to this but time!

Thanks for any and all help.

Billie
706-383-9057

On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 6:20 PM David H <hellvee at gmail.com> wrote:

> Billie,
>
> Try the Transaction Report - set the options to select your "checking
> account" on the Accounts tab and on the filter tab select "Unreconciled
> only" for the Reconciliation status which should display your unreconciled
> txns for the checking account.
>
> First copy your current Gnucash file somewhere safe just in case...
>
> Start the reconcile process again and ignore the starting balance for the
> moment as you may have inadvertently unreconciled 1 or more txns. Enter the
> end date and balance you are reconciling up to and see if it agrees with
> your ending statement balance if it does all good as this is what really
> counts :-) This will also display your unreconciled txns - see if that
> makes sense, if not you can cancel the reconciliation without finishing.
>
> I'm going to assume you're using Windows, running Gnucash 4.x and saving
> your file as the default XML file here as you didn't say...
>
> If you do have to go back to a prior backup then look in the folder where
> you save your Gnucash data file for files with names that include a date
> and time in the name and end with ".gnucash" e.g. <my gnucash
> filename>.gnucash.20210909160501.gnucash where <my gnucash filename> is
> YOUR gnucash filename - you can tell from the data and time embedded in the
> file name when the backup is from.  Use file open to open it and file save
> to save it as your Gnucash file name as you don't really want the date and
> time in your file name going forward :-)
>
> Cheers David H.
>
> Also a bit re backup files from the Gnucash wiki...
>
> XML (default)GnuCash makes local backups for you every time it saves your
> file. You must save your file (by clicking the Save button or using
> Autosave functionality in the preferences). It does this by renaming the
> previous version of the file with a date-time-stamp and a new .gnucash
> suffix. For example, if your data file is named MyAccounts.gnucash, one of
> the backups might be named MyAccounts.gnucash.20140131150812.gnucash.
>
> On Thu, 14 Oct 2021 at 07:51, Billie-Internet <drbboyd at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I have deleted some transactions that I thought were not cleared but they
>> must have been because when I went to reconcile the checking account, my
>> beginning balance is wrong.  I did correct some imbalances on split
>> transactions and I did delete some transactions but I THOUGHT I had
>> checked
>> to make sure none were reconcilled.   I suspect changing split
>> transactions
>> was my problem.
>>
>> I have been reading documentation about reconcilliation but I have not
>> been
>> able  to find out if I can revert to a previous reconcilliation so that
>> the
>> transactions I deleted, won't be deleted.  Is there a "return to point"
>> like in windows?
>>
>> To go with that, I have been trying to figure out in reports, how to get a
>> previous reconcilliation report for the checking account.  Sadly, I am
>> used
>> to the dreaded QB and just clicking , previous reconcilliation.
>>
>>
>>
>> Billie
>> 706-383-9057
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