[GNC] Importing causes 'y' in reconciliation?

[Stephen M. Butler]

On 8/1/24 11:01, Mark at Lorimark wrote:
> Helping someone out with their new GnuCash experience, regarding 
> importing and reconciliation.  He reports that after an import, the 
> reconciliation balances are off, and the account balances are off.
>
> I looked at his register, and he had reconciled 5 months or so, and 
> then following those reconciled transaction, were 'c' and 'n' type 
> transaction, and then intermixed with those were some also 'y' 
> transactions.
>
> We're not sure how that happened.  Does importing set the 
> reconciliation status to 'y' at any time for any reason?

Yes, depending on which boxes you checked during the import.   Since 
most times you are importing from the "authenticating source", you want 
the import to go ahead and set the flag that this has been "cleared" at 
the source.

It may also find that you already had that transaction (such as a 
payment to the CC) and it will then simply Match&Clear rather than 
loading a whole new transaction.  By changing the check boxes you can 
change that behavior.

--Steve