Hi Jeff,

Did you take a copy of the database before you upgraded to version 4.9. If so 
you could take a copy of this backup and open that in version 4.9, which might 
tell you if the corruption existed before upgrading to version 4.9.

Do you have anyway of finding out which version you had before version 4.9? Was 
it another flatpack version, or was it the version as part of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS? 
That version might still be available on your machine, or you could re-install 
that version, which would allow you to look at any backup copy before upgrading 
to version 4.9 in that version to see if the corruption existed.

You could also look at any/all backup copy taken automatically by version 4.9 
to see if the corruption exists. This depends on how many days of backups/logs 
you have specified should be kept in the settings. This might show when the 
corruption first started.

If you can find a backup copy that isn't corrupted then you could start with 
that copy and then either manually enter all transactions since then, or use 
the log files created since then to re-apply a subset of transactions (I think 
I remember a thread somewhere that said you can be selective in which 
transactions to re-apply).


Alan A Holmes

-----Original Message-----
From: gnucash-user <gnucash-user-bounces+gnucash=alanaholmes.me...@gnucash.org> 
On Behalf Of Jeff
Sent: 03 February 2022 07:43
To: Gnucash userlist <gnucash-user@gnucash.org>
Subject: [GNC] How to handle multiple entries of multiply reconciled entries

How I did this is beyond me, somehow I confused GNC to let it happen or had a 
data corruption when the journal was improperly saved (power outage, GNC lost a 
poker game, thought it was Quirken, etc).  I use uncompressed XML on Ubuntu 
20.04LTS.

I have discovered multiple (dozens) of transactions that are duplicates in 
several registers but; reconciled to the wrong accounts.  I am not sure of the 
easiest and proper way to correct them.

Example of the simplest ones are:  using Check 101, Cash, salary.

01/01/10 chk 101 -> Cash -> chk 101 reconciled

01/01/10 chk 101 -> salary -> salary reconciled

These are posted as 2 entirely separate transactions, in the same register, but 
are supposed to be only one transaction:

01/01/10 chk 101 -> salary -> both reconciled

As a result my current balance is now off by off by over $4,000.

And the real kicker, is that these errors now go back 3 years in this journal.  
I know these errors did not exist prior to FlatPak 4.9, not sure which version 
I upgraded from to 4.9.  Plus they would have shown up when I did reports for 
taxes and income expense statements last year.

Suggestions, besides burning more midnight oil than this old man has left, 
other than to delete all of them and enter all of them correctly as I find 
them.  I'm in tax time crunch here.

--
--JEffrey Black M.B.A.

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