[GNC] screwed up my cash acount

[Mark at Lorimark]

I have had to do this from time to time when trying to reconcile 
transactions and trying to reconcile accounts.  I too have 'fooled 
around so much' and made a mess of things.  I have reconciled a whole 
year's worth of transactions only to find I just butchered two accounts.

I've adopted two principles to mitigate problems;

1. back-up my file before attempting a big operation like reconciliation 
or importing
2. well, there isn't a #2

The back-up is king.

~mark petryk
~w:http://www.lorimarksolutions.com

On 1/13/25 11:16, Richard Danielson wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> GC 5.9 on a mac mini using sonoma 14.6.1.  I made a futile attempt to 
> balance my cash starting with the credit line account and then going to 
> cash.  Used the bank statements to guide my entries.  The problem was 
> that there was an entry in the credit line statement which didn't show 
> up on the cash statement.  I fooled around so much that I had to change 
> a whole month of cash entries from reconciled to not reconciled.  Then I 
> tried several techniques to change the cash entries to match the bank 
> statement.  Now I have a garbage cash list and none of the entries I 
> made to fix things are not showing up in my general journal or my cash 
> statement.
> 
> The only thing I can see to do now is to go back to an earlier backup of 
> GC and re-enter the bank statement entries and forget about the credit 
> line statement.  Any comments?  Thanks.
> 
> Rick
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