[GNC] Reconciliation of accounts is not permanent

[Jediator]

Did you perhaps modified/added/deleted transactions after 
reconciliation?  Any changes could easily break your reconciled 
balance.  This is typical in a double-entry system: you changed one 
account and didn't realized it affected the balance of another.  I guess 
the only way to make the reconciliation permanent in GC would be to 
reset your accounting period in settings after recon, so to prevent any 
changes to transactions before your the end date..  Hope this helps.  
Cheers!  -- JC

On 9/26/23 12:05 PM, Mark Truelove wrote:
> Hi all, I just joined the list. I thought I'd give this a try before moving
> to a bug report, because I can't believe this happens to me and no one else
> has experienced it.  I did try searching list history as suggested with
> google, but didn't find anything referring to this specifically.
>
> Also, this is not the first time experiencing this phenomenon, probably the
> third.
>
> I use gnucash for personal finances, so I have a checking or cash account
> and a number of credit card accounts.  All of these are reconciled several
> times a year as I receive statements, although not always on time every
> month.  However I don't go three months without catching up on all my
> accounts in any case.
>
> Today (and on previous occasions), I started my periodic reconciliations
> because I had statement notifications in email.  I opened my credit card to
> reconcile and had the month's statement in a browser window.  At first I
> was unable to match the "beginning of month" figures to fill out the small
> prompt window when reconciling.  After a few glances I realized that it was
> trying to match the beginning balance to September of LAST YEAR instead of
> last month.  I have reconciled this account to its statements 9 or10 times
> in the last year, including last month.
>
> In previous months, I reconciled this account and saved it normally, and
> that information was retained for the following months' reconciliations.
> Now when it forgets, it is losing/ignoring several months of previous
> reconciliations, but not all of them (since this account is at least 20
> years old).  When I checked them all, it has forgotten reconciliation data
> for three other accounts as well (while another six accounts in the same
> file are fully up-to date).
>
> I have backups of my files, both through GC's own backup system and my own
> rotating backups.  Loss of data files is not an issue here.  This got me
> thinking, and I went back and reloaded some of these backup files
> directly.  When loaded, they are all missing the same information as my
> current file.
>
> So, one could say, user error - he actually didn't reconcile for months,
> and the files show that.  Unfortunately, I DID reconcile all of these
> accounts, and the program is treating some aspect of the data as if it
> doesn't exist beyond that point, regardless of the source file.
>
> I'm a retired IT pro, an IT Manager and other roles over 40 years.  I know
> how this looks at first glance.  If this hadn't happened to me twice
> previously I wouldn't be taking the time to report this in detail today.
>
> I'm currently running v5.3.  I downloaded 5.4 but haven't upgraded yet bc I
> didn't want to compound the problem.  If this is a known issue and 5.4
> fixes it, then great, I'll just upgrade.
>
> I hope this scenario seems familiar to one of the users out there.
>
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