[GNC] Partial use of reconciliation

[Kalpesh Patel]

Be careful with the import process as mentioned below because if the matcher has NOT been trained before then you can end up with needing to manually match every one of them, and more such as accounts, which is likely to be more burdensome in effort  than other ways accomplishing it. 

Bulk checking boxes is available as another long time user has mentioned -- which is to use ctrl-A combo in the reconcile window or alternate on Windowz (might work on other OS but not sure) is to click left mouse on the first transaction in the range to select it, scroll down to last one to be selected and then while holding down the shift key c lick the left mouse again to select the range. Then press space to toggle the check box for all selected items in the matcher window. This has worked great when I perform year-end (re-)recon.

-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen M. Butler <kg7je at arrl.net> 
Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2025 3:58 PM
To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: [GNC] Partial use of reconciliation

On 4/24/25 11:36, Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) wrote:
> I've never used reconciliation because I get real-time transactions 
> from all my credit cards and my bank, so if there's something wrong I 
> deal with it before the statement arrives.
>
> But recently I realized there's one _piece_ of reconciliation I'd like 
> to use in my bank accounts: cleared (c) versus not cleared (n). I 
> think it would be useful to get a list of uncleared checks, deposits, 
> and transfers from time to time which I can do with a filter.
>
> But ... I've got over 7 years of data in my book, so clearing all 
> those items individually would be quite a job. I know I can filter by 
> date as well as not-cleared status, but I wonder if there's any 
> shortcut to clearing a lot of transactions at once.
>
> For instance, it looks like I can treat everything before this year as 
> a single statement and just bulk-reconcile it; that would leave me 
> only this year's transactions (about 100 of them) to mark as cleared. 
> Any reason not to take that approach, or is there a better way?
When I import a downloaded file (at least with OFX) it will mark the transaction as cleared as it loads new entries AND it will mark as cleared any matched entries.

Are you able to download a file to import and then ensure that that only the Match/Clear flags are marked for the import process?

That will keep you from having to manually mark all those transactions as cleared viz the GUI.