[GNC] screwed up my cash acount

[Steve Butler]

#2.  Take smaller steps with #1 at major milestones.

On Mon, Jan 13, 2025, 09:23 Mark at Lorimark <mark at lorimarksolutions.com>
wrote:

> 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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