[GNC] Reconciliation Roll Back (Peter Cuthbert)

[Peter Cuthbert]

Dear Everybody
 
Many thanks for your responses to my Reconciliation problem.
 
I have been examining my accounts and have managed to find part of the 
problem.  A £10K transfer out of the bank account to a new saving 
account became 'flipped' from a payment to a receipt.  Looking at the 
details I set up for the savings a/c I made the wrong choices so that it 
was shown as an outgoing not an incoming.  That clearly accounts for the 
£20k of difference but where the other odds and ends that dribbled it 
down to 19K came from I have no idea.
 
In exasperation I have looked at some of the other account programs that 
are out there on the Internet but it looks as if they are keen to simply 
import one's bank statement.  I cannot see how they would cope with 
credit card payements other than as a single lump DD.  That is no use to 
me as I use the credit card as a payments card and need to analyse the 
statements.  Thus it looks as if I will have to wind the reconciliation 
back transaction by transaction and get GNUCash corrected.
 
So final thought for the GNUCash programmers.  Please consider a 'roll 
back' facility so that one can correct mistakes.  Indeed an 'opening 
balance' entry request for Reconciliations would be useful with a 
warning message that the value one has entered is not what the system 
holds.  If that happened one would not go ahead with the reconciliation, 
but go back and look for obvious mistakes.
 
Best wishes
 
Pete
 
------ Original Message ------
From: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
To: blake.hannaford at gmail.com Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Sent: Tuesday, May 28th 2024, 21:40
Subject: Re: [GNC] Reconciliation Roll Back (Peter Cuthbert)
Generally, I find that transactions ONLY get dereconciled due to an 
action I have taken-- like changing some element of said transaction. 
They don't just "get unreconciled"-- at least, not for me. 
There was a short period of time where the app was very strict about 
when a transaction was dereconciled, but that change was modified after 
user feedback. I believe that recent versions only dereconcile a 
transaction when you modify a material detail, like the amount or the 
date. If you are having this as a longstanding problem, it would be 
useful to everyone to figure out what is going on, so that the problem 
can be addressed-- regardless of where the problem lies. Dereconciling 
transactions is not a minor matter when it comes to accounting software. 
⁣David T. ​ On May 28, 2024, 8:51 PM, at 8:51 PM, Blake Hannaford wrote: 
>I find this has been a longstanding problem. Every once in a while, 
>old >transactions get unreconciled. I always open GC the same way so 
I'm >sure >I'm not opening backups. > >Blake Hannaford > >-- 
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