[GNC] Reconciliation of accounts is not permanent

[R Losey]

On Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 11:06 AM Mark Truelove <true911m at gmail.com> 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.
>
> 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.
>

First of all, welcome.

Just for a data point, I've been using GnuCash 5.3 and have had no such
issues with reconciliation. I always open GnuCash by clicking on the
GnuCash application, never on a data file. I actually run GC on both an
iMac and on Windows (the data file is on a shared network device). I have a
Linux box (Ubuntu 22) with an older version of GC, but I don't run it there
very often.

I thought I saw something like this happen when I was getting online stock
quotes... it **COULD** be that the stock quotes programs doesn't look for
the LCK file and over-wrote my data entries, but I didn't think I did this.
It's the closest I can come to your situation.

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Richard Losey
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