[GNC] screwed up my cash acount

[bullish bob bagley]

ok mark,

how do you make a backup in gnucash?  extremely new to it.  Thank you

On 1/13/25 11:22 AM, Mark at Lorimark 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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