[GNC] GC reconcile window problems

[John Ralls]

> On Dec 26, 2025, at 11:23 AM, ornd25 at tutanota.com wrote:
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>> I had hoped that you would understand my question to be broader than the dates example: I want you to examine the 9 unreconciled transactions in the account and see if there are any differences between the four that are presented and the five that are not.
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> As far as I can tell, there is no difference among the transactions compared to my previous practices. This, Case 1, is a savings account and nine of the transactions are scheduled, with numbers, debits and credits automatically posted to GC. In the case of interest payments the values may change and I do that manually. The other two transactions were direct payment of credit card bills without passing first through my checking account. In that case I credited the savings account and debited each credit card account.
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> I thought I had answered more on the difference question at one point, but I can't find it, so here is what I found. "It appears the system wants the first two debits and the first two credits (to make up the four in the Reconciliation Window). If it had wanted the first four transactions, per se, it would have chosen no debits but rather all four would be credits."

You did say that. It isn’t what I’m asking, nor did I ask about how you entered the transactions. I mean that you should look at the transactions in the register and compare what’s displayed. 

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>> You didn’t answer the question about sub accounts. ("Does the account you're trying to balance have sub accounts and some of the transactions are actually in the sub accounts?"
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> This particular savings account is is subordinate to Assets then Current Assets and is among other accounts within Current Assets, but has no sub accounts to this savings account.
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>> What are these two cases? Different accounts where the reconcile window is presenting only four transactions and there are more unreconciled ones? Please provide more detail.
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> Case 1 is a savings account and Case 2 is a checking account within Current Assets and neither has sub accounts.

Not the detail I was looking for. How many unreconciled debit and credit transactions are there in each account?
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>> Your use of the word “period” is causing confusion. A period is a set of contiguous dates with a beginning and an end. GnuCash’s reconcile process doesn’t work on a period even though your bank statement does. The window is supposed to display all unreconciled transactions—those with an ’n’ or a ‘c’ in the R(reconciled) column between the Account and left value column—regardless of date.
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> Specifically, the Case 1 statement reads, "Statement Period: 11/15/2025 to 12/15/2025." The Case 2 statement reads, "Statement Period 11/01/2025 through 11/30/2025”.

OK, but GnuCash only knows about the date of the last reconciliation and the date you tell it that is the end of the current reconciliation. Reconciliation is recorded on the date and to the ending balance you provide in the Reconcile Information Window. It doesn’t consider or even know about a period, regardless of what the bank printed on your statement.

> The reconciliation window should show any transactions that have not been reconciled, e.g., those with an "n" or "c". It does not.

Yeah, got that. We’re all trying to figure out why.
Fred Bone raised a very useful question. If there is space for only two rows in the debit and credit views, you can either expand the window vertically (assuming you have space on your screen) or you can place the pointer in one of the lists and scroll it. A scrollbar will appear if you place the pointer at the right edge of a transaction list.

Regards,
John Ralls