[GNC] Accidentally unreconclied a transaction - how to mark reconciled again?

[Doug]

I have had this happen a few times over the years. What I do is to not panic, & clear the transaction at the next reconcile.

 If you reconcile everything but that transaction, the balance should be the unreconciled transaction, so just tick it & 
finish the reconcile. You can even use the last reconcile (where everything was already reconciled), which should be sitting 
at the unreconciled amount. Again tick & proceed. 
 Usually when I have an issue like this it is related to a transaction I have duplicated. I use these duplicated transactions 
for boiler plate splits, where I massage the amounts because the amounts vary a bit period to period (such as a variable 
monthly payment I may split to different accounts). I have had cases where I have reconciled the original amount, but need 
to manage the splits: delete the original reconciled transaction, then fix the replacement transaction at the next reconcile.

Hope that was clear! It works for me anyway.

Merry Christmas to those who partake,
Doug (Old user!)


On Sun, 21 Dec 2025 16:35:26 +0530
sunfish62--- via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:

> If your starting and ending balances are correct without this transaction included, then there's something wrong. Either the transaction doesn't really exist, or another one of equal amount (which has itself been reconciled) doesn't exist. 
> 
> Perhaps this transaction belongs in another account in your finances? I've been known to have that happen, especially when auto fill kicks in. 
> 
> The only way to truly figure it all out is to dereconcile back to before the transaction in question and re do everything again, very carefully. 
> 
> You could just leave it there until you figure out what it is. 
> 
> Or you could just delete the mystery transaction. 
> 
> ⁣David T.​
> 
> On Dec 21, 2025, 4:14 PM, at 4:14 PM, Randy Orrison <randy at orrison.com> wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I have a transaction in my checking account from a couple months ago
> >that I can't reconcile.  It's showing as unreconciled in the register,
> >but when I mark it as reconciled while doing reconciliation, the
> >balance is off by the amount of that transaction.  
> >
> >When I do reconciliation of statements on that account, the starting
> >and ending balances are correct, but that one transaction - which has
> >cleared through the bank and appeared on the statement for that month -
> >can't be reconciled.
> >
> >I've looked to see if there's some other transaction on the wrong date
> >for that amount, or perhaps it was entered into the wrong account, or
> >anything else, but there's no explanation I can see other than that I
> >accidentally marked it as unreconciled at some point and ignored the
> >warning.
> >
> >Is there some way to just mark it as reconciled, to correct the error I
> >made by marking it as unreconciled?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Randy
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