[GNC] reconcile problem?

[Paul Kinzelman]

That's a good question and I think that could be an explanation
for the resurrection of the reconciled transactions which happened
quite awhile ago when I was new to GC.

But that doesn't explain how a transaction could become
reconciled on its own like the one that happened this month, which
tipped me over the edge to post about it.

On 2/23/2022 8:29 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Are you possibly opening up a backup file when you start GnuCash?
>
> -derek
>
> On Wed, February 23, 2022 10:23 am, Paul Kinzelman wrote:
>> The latter is certainly possible, but it's strange that this started with
>> gnucash, didn't happen with Quicken. But if nobody else has noticed
>> this, then maybe it is the latter. :-)
>>
>> And I have NEVER connected it to my account, as you suggested,
>> I ALWAYS enter everything by hand.
>>
>> Oh, and I'm using the Windows latest version.
>>
>> A while ago, I remember seeing a number of transactions which were
>> marked as reconciled become unreconciled as well, and it balanced after
>> I checked them as reconciled again the next month.
>>
>> The real kicker was the one item I noticed that came up reconciled
>> this month as tho I had done it last month. And I couldn't have done it
>> last month or else it would have been unbalanced. And the charge
>> was not on last month's statement.
>>
>> But if nobody else has seen anything like this, maybe it is something
>> I'm doing. But it's strange that I never saw it with Quicken, thus my
>> post.
>>
>> On 2/23/2022 7:51 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:
>>> HI,
>>>
>>> On Wed, February 23, 2022 9:35 am, Paul Kinzelman wrote:
>>>> I always balance my accounts every month. I used to use Quicken before
>>>> they went to a rental model. Credit cards always balanced every month
>>>> for me.
>>>>
>>>> I've been using GC for several years now, and notice that I sometimes
>>>> can't
>>>> get cards to balance, I have to add an imbalance amount. Then this
>>>> month, I noticed that a charge that was on this month's statement
>>>> and not last month's statement was already marked as reconciled in GC.
>>>>
>>>> Has anybody else noticed anything like this?
>>>>
>>>> I don't even know how to track this kind of thing down, whether it's
>>>> a bug, or I'm just getting older and senile. :-)
>>> without being rude, I would suggest the latter.
>>> How are you entering your transactions?
>>> I always enter them manually (I NEVER import), and when I have a problem
>>> balancing I find it's *ALMOST ALWAYS* an error on my part (especially
>>> with
>>> my wife's card, because I don't get receipts from any online shopping
>>> she
>>> does).  When entering I find I sometimes swap digits, which causes the
>>> result to be off.
>>> Every once in a while I have to cancel the reconcile and start over and
>>> CAREFULLY watch the numbers to find where I entered something
>>> incorrectly.
>>>
>>> If you find you're off, then check again -- most likely something was
>>> entered wrong.  Either that or you modified an existing, reconciled
>>> transaction (from the other side) which caused a break in that starting
>>> balance.
>>>
>>>> Ideas?
>>>>
>>>> TIA!
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>>> -derek
>>>
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