That's a good question and I think that could be an explanation
for the resurrection of the reconciled transactions which happened
quite awhile ago when I was new to GC.
But that doesn't explain how a transaction could become
reconciled on its own like the one that happened this month, which
tipped me over the edge to post about it.
On 2/23/2022 8:29 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:
Are you possibly opening up a backup file when you start GnuCash?
-derek
On Wed, February 23, 2022 10:23 am, Paul Kinzelman wrote:
The latter is certainly possible, but it's strange that this started with
gnucash, didn't happen with Quicken. But if nobody else has noticed
this, then maybe it is the latter. :-)
And I have NEVER connected it to my account, as you suggested,
I ALWAYS enter everything by hand.
Oh, and I'm using the Windows latest version.
A while ago, I remember seeing a number of transactions which were
marked as reconciled become unreconciled as well, and it balanced after
I checked them as reconciled again the next month.
The real kicker was the one item I noticed that came up reconciled
this month as tho I had done it last month. And I couldn't have done it
last month or else it would have been unbalanced. And the charge
was not on last month's statement.
But if nobody else has seen anything like this, maybe it is something
I'm doing. But it's strange that I never saw it with Quicken, thus my
post.
On 2/23/2022 7:51 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:
HI,
On Wed, February 23, 2022 9:35 am, Paul Kinzelman wrote:
I always balance my accounts every month. I used to use Quicken before
they went to a rental model. Credit cards always balanced every month
for me.
I've been using GC for several years now, and notice that I sometimes
can't
get cards to balance, I have to add an imbalance amount. Then this
month, I noticed that a charge that was on this month's statement
and not last month's statement was already marked as reconciled in GC.
Has anybody else noticed anything like this?
I don't even know how to track this kind of thing down, whether it's
a bug, or I'm just getting older and senile. :-)
without being rude, I would suggest the latter.
How are you entering your transactions?
I always enter them manually (I NEVER import), and when I have a problem
balancing I find it's *ALMOST ALWAYS* an error on my part (especially
with
my wife's card, because I don't get receipts from any online shopping
she
does). When entering I find I sometimes swap digits, which causes the
result to be off.
Every once in a while I have to cancel the reconcile and start over and
CAREFULLY watch the numbers to find where I entered something
incorrectly.
If you find you're off, then check again -- most likely something was
entered wrong. Either that or you modified an existing, reconciled
transaction (from the other side) which caused a break in that starting
balance.
Ideas?
TIA!
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