On 2025-04-26 21:26, [email protected] wrote: > Stan, > > Glad you worked this out. I'll note that it sounds as if you did all > this in the register, based on your talking about setting the field to "c."
You're right, I was in the register, in basic view. So I'd click the "n" on each line, then hit the Enter key. It went pretty quickly. > I'll note that if you were to use the Reconcile feature in GnuCash, you > would find an interface that simplifies the selection of transactions to > be reconciled. It would also make it easy to locate discrepancies of the > sort you mentioned. Maybe I wasn't clear enough. I did try the Reconcile interface initially; that's where I got the > $1,000 discrepancy. If you say it's easy to locate those discrepancies, I'll believe you, but I didn't have a clue how to do it. (I did check for Orphan or Imbalance entries, and there were none.) Maybe this is a deficiency in 4.14 that has been fixed in 5.x? > Finally, were you to complete that process, GnuCash > would set the Reconcile field to "y" for all those transactions, and the > program would prompt you before allowing you to edit any of them in the > future. It's an added assurance that past transactions stay the way you > want them. (Note that this can be overridden) Yes, I've picked up on that from reading the mailing list. I like the idea in principle, but in 7+ years with GC I've never accidentally edited a past transaction. Rightly or wrongly, I don't see what full reconciliation would buy me in the way I work. Not saying the features are valueless: I'm unusual in that I don't wait till the end of a statement period to reconcile. I get an alert from every bank account and credit card whenever there's a credit or debit, and I'm pretty rigid about entering the appropriate transactions. Here again, what _will_ help me is not cleared versus cleared. For most transactions, the notification from the bank or card company comes very promptly, and I enter the transaction and immediately mark it cleared. But sometimes a vendor delays communicating the purchase to the processor, and in such cases I enter the transaction leaving the status at the default n, then change it to c when I get the belated notice. (The same applies in my checking account, when I schedule a funds transfer or bill payment for a future date, or a vendor is slow to deposit my check.) > Should you wish to have that result, you can rather quickly take your > accounts now, click the Reconcile button, accept the defaults, and > (assuming the numbers actually match) Unfortunately that assumption was not met. My records match the banks, but the Reconcile screen isn't happy. I'd pursue it if I thought it worth my while, but for the admittedly unusual process that I follow, I think just cleared/not cleared is what I need. > click finish in the ensuing dialog > to change all transactions to "y." Then future reconciliations could be > done against statements on a regular basis. Above, I've tried to explain why per-statement reconciliation isn't as useful to me as it is to most people. Because I enter everything the same day, surprises at the end of the statement period are quite rare, and not hard to fix when they do occur. Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: 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.
