[GNC] Importing causes 'y' in reconciliation?

[Mark at Lorimark]

Hi Steve, yes but this seems like it's setting the R to 'y' which is 
really odd to me.  I can see setting it to 'c', but not 'y'.

Thank you for your reply.

~mark petryk
~w:http://www.lorimarksolutions.com

On 8/1/24 14:01, Stephen M. Butler wrote:
> 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
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