[GNC] Reversing a finished credit card reconciliation

[David T.]

Both previous replies were on target-- but, I do wonder how you finished the first reconciliation, since GnuCash won't activate the finish button until the Difference value is zero. If the transaction was wrong, the balance would be non-zero?

⁣David T. ​

On Jun 25, 2023, 12:26 PM, at 12:26 PM, "Maf. King" <maf at chilwell.net> wrote:
>Hi Gregory,
>
>welcome to the list and Gnucash.
>
>
>Just ignore that the starting balance is wrong, go through the
>reconcilliation 
>as normal aiming for the correct ending balance.
>
>should sort itself out.
>HTH,
>Maf
>
>
>On Thursday, 22 June 2023 01:08:01 BST Gregory Donavon wrote:
>>  I hope you can help me unwind an error I made after not following
>one of
>> the steps in a busybee post video on youtube: I transposed a couple
>of
>> numbers on one transaction, this resulted in there being a difference
>of a
>> few dollars. Rather than hitting "postpone," I hit "finished" with
>the plan
>> of coming back later to figure out the location of the error. When I
>> changed the transposed entry to the correct amount, that didn't
>correct the
>> problem because when I went back in to reconcile , the starting
>balance was
>> wrong and I could not change it or bring up the original
>reconciliation
>> page. Is there anything I can do - this is my first month using
>gnucash.
>> Any suggestions you have for reversing the transactions would be
>> appreciated.
>> 
>> Thanks for your help,
>> Gregory Donavon
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