[GNC] Reconciliation Roll Back

[Maf. King]

On Tuesday, 28 May 2024 09:49:05 BST Peter Cuthbert via gnucash-user wrote:

>   The reason I suspect
> is that the opening balance that it picked up seemed way too high but I
> know of no way to make sure that the opening balance is the correct one.

Only by visual inspection - if you completed the reconcile of last month's 
statement, then the reconciled balance in GC should match the end balance of 
that statement  which should match the opening balance of the current 
statement which should match what GC suggests as the starting balance.

If the opening balances don't match but the previous reconciled balances did 
then something slightly odd has happened.  Maybe you inadvertently modified 
some reconciled txns and they lost their "reconcied" status.   maybe you 
accidently started using a backup file at some point (look for lots of numbers 
in the filename)


>  Additionally I noticed that a good handful of transactions that were
> reconciled in last months task now showed up as unreconciled.

That would certainly throw off the starting balance.

>  
> I am at a loss as to how to rescure this problem.  What would be nice
> would be to be able to 'roll back' the erroneous reconciliation and
> probably the previous one and then begin again.  Unless, of course you
> > know a better way to get out of this hole.

Try a reconcile to the new statement ending balance - ignore the "start".  
Also look at the unreconciled transactions from previous months - if they all 
check off OK and you hit the  new statement end balance  then you are good to 
go.

If you really want to roll back the previous reconciles, then you can only do 
that manually by clicking on each of the "Y" in the reconciled transactions 
status.

As always, take a back-up copey of the file before you start digging and maybe 
get in a worse mess!

HTH,
Maf.
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