I tried that, but the reconcile window starting balance stayed fixed. -----Original Message----- From: gnucash-user [mailto:gnucash-user-bounces+c.pagan=sbcglobal....@gnucash.org] On Behalf Of Ronal B Morse Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2017 4:08 PM To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: Re: Cannot edit opening balance
Is there some reason you couldn't just change the opening balance in the register to the correct amount, then performing the reconcile? RBM On 12/12/2017 10:52 AM, Carmelo Pagán wrote: > I thank everyone for their feedback. > > I resolved it the painful way of creating a new file, downloading my > transactions (Thanks to Bruno Acklin's posting of the settings I needed), > then establishing the opening balances before reconciling the first time. > Fortunately, I am relatively new to GnuCash, so I only had to go through six > months' worth of transactions. > > Lesson learned. > > Carmelo Pagan > > -----Original Message----- > From: gnucash-user > [mailto:gnucash-user-bounces+c.pagan=sbcglobal....@gnucash.org] On > Behalf Of John Ralls > Sent: Monday, December 11, 2017 6:53 PM > To: DaveC49 <davidcous...@bigpond.com> > Cc: gnucash-user@gnucash.org > Subject: Re: Cannot edit opening balance > > > >> On Dec 11, 2017, at 2:51 PM, DaveC49 <davidcous...@bigpond.com> wrote: >> >> John, >> >> That is exactly what the Opening Balance dialog actually does in >> Gnucash (it creates those entries) and once the entries have been >> created they are easily edited either from the Opening Balances >> register or from the register for the account for which you set the >> opening balance, just as you can edit any other transaction. > Yes, Dave, I know. But the OP said that he didn’t use the Opening Balance tab > of the new account dialog, he created an Opening Balance transaction by hand > afterwards. Since he didn’t use the dialog it’s possible he made a mistake > and I instructed him how he might check for one and repair it if he needs to. > > Regards, > John Ralls > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
