[GNC] Incorrect Starting Balance in Reconcile Popup

[Adrien Monteleone]

Richard,

Have you removed all of those 'fake' entries when you went over it 
again? None of them should be there, assuming you aren't missing any 
real transactions. (or have duplicates)

That one un-reconciled item should have appeared on a statement 
somewhere, has it not? (or does the bank never show it clearing?) To get 
that settled, just re-reconcile with a closing balance that will allow 
it to be marked as 'reconciled'.

I wouldn't expect to be able to properly reconcile if my books are full 
of fake entries. But I'll hazard that if you delete all of the 
'correcting/fudging/fake' entries, and go back over it again carefully 
month by month, the first month you stumble on that isn't correct will 
reveal an error in an existing transaction.

These can be hard to spot, especially if digits are transposed or 
credits/debits are reversed. Be sure to turn on View > Transaction 
Journal when doing this sort of sleuthing so you can see *all* splits 
and particularly which accounts they are assigned to.

There are math tricks to tease some of those math out. You can probably 
find them online. I've seen a few discussed here on the list, sorry I 
don't recall off-hand. (though I think transposed digits is linked to 
being divisible by 9)

Best of luck.

Regards,
Adrien

On 12/8/25 12:11 PM, Richard via gnucash-user wrote:
> I have gone through all the items in that account for this year when I 
> started the account.
> 
> I find a single item un-reconciled until I get to the current month. The 
> box with 12457 does not allow any changes so there is no way to change 
> that. I have in the past gone thru this process to find an error and 
> having the balance column, I can change the entry dates to follow the 
> balances on the statement, checking each item against the bank 
> statement, ending with the New Balance.
> 
> Unfortunately there does not appear to be an obvious way to either 
> reconcile the individual item that I found, nor does checking it off in 
> the reconcile window do any good - just adds to the problem. Without 
> adding a balancing entry, _there is no way to finish reconciling_.
> 
> Again this whole morning I have gone through months worth of statements 
> and only found that one un-reconciled item.