[GNC] GC reconcile window problems

[ornd25 at tutanota.com]

Sorry - first attempt didn't respond correctly:

Thank you, Jim - I appreciate your willingness to help. I'll certainly review section 2.9.4; even with nine years of accounts and thousands of reconcilliations over those years it's always a good idea to review the basics. Also, I can see that including my troubleshooting steps, and especially using the wrong terms, I introduced ambivalence into a rather simply-described problem.

>Or do you mean, of the many more than four 
un-reconciled transactions in the account, all of which you expected to 
appear in the Reconcile window, only four of them actually appeared?  If 
so, that requires more exploration.

This is indeed the case. If the Register has nine transactions that need to be reconciled, the Reconcile window shows only four. If there are three transactions that need to be reconciled, the Reconcile window shows three. This issue is not just limited to one account but affects all my accounts.






Dec 24, 2025, 18:03 by list+gnucash at jdlh.com:

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> Hello, John.
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> I'd like to try to help you with your reconciliation situation,      but I'm having a bit of difficulty figuring out from your      description what is happening and in what way it is a problem.
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> On 2025-12-24 12:04, John H. via      gnucash-user wrote:
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>> The GnuCash (v5.10, Mac 15.7.2) Reconcile window shows only a small subset (four) of transactions to be reconciled.It shows them accurately, and the Beginning and Ending Balance on the register are  also accurate.The only clue I noticed beginning the process was that the Reconcile window did not choose the proper month, December; it chose November 15 as default before I changed it to December 15.From that and from some GC mailing list archives, I thought the trouble might be that I saved a previous month (October or November 2025) to the wrong month.  I quit GnuCash and went back to reopen the session from a month ago (approximately), but it still showed the same error. Then I unreconciled October transactions, re-entered and re-reconciled to the proper month. It worked fine, but there were only three transactions in total.I then deleted November transactions, and re-entered them and attempted to reconcile them, but the window only shows the earliest four transactions of approximately eight.. That's the limit of my troubleshooting skills and I'd appreciate some guidance, please. Thanks.John H.
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> First, you might want to have another look at the 
>  GnuCash Tutorial and Guide > <https://gnucash.org/viewdoc.phtml?rev=5&lang=C&doc=guide> <https://gnucash.org/viewdoc.phtml?rev=5&lang=C&doc=guide>> ,      section 2.9.4. > Reconciliation> , 
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>  GnuCash Manual > <https://gnucash.org/viewdoc.phtml?rev=5&lang=C&doc=help> <https://gnucash.org/viewdoc.phtml?rev=5&lang=C&doc=help>> ,      section 5.8. > Reconciling an Account to a Statement> . 
>  Maybe the instructions there will help you understand what you are      seeing and what to do about it.
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> Second, I don't understand what you mean by "I saved a previous      month… to the wrong month." Reconciliation just changes entries in      a particular field of some transactions in an account. It doesn't      save something in one month or another month.
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> Third, you say, "the Reconcile window did not choose the proper      month, December; it chose November 15 as default before I changed      it to December 15."  I think what you mean is, when the Reconcile      Window opened, the Statement Date field initially contained      November 15, but you wanted to reconcile a statement dated      December 15. That in itself is not a problem. GnuCash guesses the      date to fill in to the Statement Date field by adding a month or      some other offset  to the Statement Date you used when you last      reconciled that account. Sometimes GnuCash guesses wrong.  But,      maybe this means you reconciled an October 15 statement, but did      not yet reconcile the November 15 statement before starting on the      December 15 statement?  
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> The Reconciliation function in GnuCash is not month-by-month. It      always shows a starting balance equal to the sum of all reconciled      transactions in that account since the beginning of time. The      proper way to reconcile is period by period, in chronological      order. You can skip around — I've done it — but it takes      particular gymnastics to work around GnuCash's methods.
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> You say, that the "Reconcile window shows only a small subset      (four) of transactions to be reconciled." I can read that two      ways, and I'm not sure what you mean.  Do you mean, the Reconcile      window only showed four transactions of the many more in the      account? If so, that may be GnuCash working as designed. Only the      un-reconciled transactions appear in the Reconcile window.  Or do      you mean, of the many more than four un-reconciled transactions in      the account, all of which you expected to appear in the Reconcile      window, only four of them actually appeared?  If so, that requires      more exploration.
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> I hope this helps.  Happy holidays,
>       —Jim DeLaHunt
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