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

[Randy Orrison]

Hi,

On Sun, 21 Dec 2025, at 11:05 AM, sunfish62 at yahoo.com 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.

The transaction certainly exists... it's from one my accounts to my checking account, and I see both sides in the two bank statements for that date.  The savings account side of the transaction is reconciled in GnuCash, but the checking account is not.

> Perhaps this transaction belongs in another account in your finances? I've been known to have that happen, especially when auto fill kicks in.

No, it definitely belongs in my checking account.

> 
> 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.

How do I dereconcile multiple months of transactions?  It it just mark all of them individually as not reconciled?

> 
> You could just leave it there until you figure out what it is.

I'm trying to figure it out now :-)  It's long enough past the date that it should be clear.  I can try this in a copy of my file as a last

> 
> Or you could just delete the mystery transaction.

If I did that, I would then have a problem in my savings account.

Thanks for the suggestions though!

Randy

> 
> ⁣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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