First, I'll say there was no actual data loss, just loss of more time
than I'm happy losing over the past two days.
On 30 June, I saved and backed up my data file, and began my end of
month reconciliation of my investment accounts. Yesterday, I had
completed reconciliation of one account. I thought I had saved, but in
retrospect (i.e., looking at available files) obviously not, and that
was my fault.
Today, I completed reconciliation of a second account, and again
(unusually) neglected to save the file.
I then started on a third account. These are all investment accounts,
and my broker sends two transactions for a dividend reinvestment. In
the Investment account, I convert one to a reinvestment transaction.
The other transaction only appears as a deposit in the brokerage
account. In this case, I reconciled the investment account first, and
then went to the brokerage account. I reconciled the account before I
deleted three of those "extra" transactions, which left me with an
incorrect balance, too large by the sum of those three transactions.
When I saw this, I deleted those three transactions, and only then
noticed the "wrong" reconciled balance.
OK - I figured I could undo several steps, going back to right before I
did the reconciliation. Well, I did undelete those three transactions,
but at that point, the "undelete" button appeared disabled. I could
push it, and the window re-displayed, but nothing changed. Multiple
further presses did not remove the "now wrong" reconciliation banner
from the ledger.
Is reconciliation not able to be undone, or have I discovered an actual
bug?
Unfortunately, I neglected to save a copy of the file in it's "bad"
state, although I can probably recreate it if necessary.
Any thoughts?
Thanks.
Jack
