[GNC] How to find the transaction entered one minute ago

[sunfish62 at yahoo.com]

Michael, 

As I understood it, the GnuCash "General Ledger" shows all transactions in one register. Perhaps I have that terminology wrong... That would make it possible to see all entries, including the lost transaction, presumably. However, if the OP had entered a transaction and backdated it to 2012, it wouldn't show in that GnuCash "General Ledger," because that particular view defaults to showing the last 30 days. 

And what I meant by the date issue is that GnuCash will only show the last 30 days of transactions in the GL based on the user's supplied date (the "transaction date," if you will), rather than the date the user actually entered the transaction into the register. So that 2012 transaction that OP entered one minute ago wouldn't show up in that view. 

⁣David T. ​

On Jun 1, 2025, 4:44 PM, at 4:44 PM, Michael or Penny Novack via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
>On 5/31/2025 11:13 AM, sunfish62--- via gnucash-user wrote:
>> I guess the general ledger would only be useful for transactions that
>have a transaction date (rather than the entry date) in recent memory.
>
>Just to clarify ----- terminology.
>
>In double entry bookkeeping, "general ledger" refers to the ENTIRE 
>"ledger" (all the accounts). Called "general" because in the old days 
>there were often subsets and subsidiary books. Back then transactions 
>were first entered in the "journal" and them posted to the "ledger". 
>With gnucash, we only enter "journal style" when the transaction
>affects 
>more than two accounts, but even then posting is automatic and the 
>journal itself virtual.
>
>In other words, gnucash IS "general ledger" << how I would use the term
>>>
>
>Michael D Novack
>
>PS: What do you mean "only entry date"? Do you mean transactions
>without 
>a financial date? << Bookkeeping is not "real time". When a transaction
>
>is entered  is data, but not bookkeeping/financial data. In the same 
>sense that the facts you are keeping books using the application
>gnucash 
>running on an XYZ computer under operating system  qrs are all data but
>
>have no bookkeeping significance >>
>
>
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