Well, my computer reformatted, so I had to start over. But in almost two decades, I started over several times, and this last time is the only time this problem occurred. I can’t imagine that had anything to do with it.
I’m going to look at an old hard drive I saved from a couple computers back and see if I have an old installation file and see what it does if I do. Or what happens if I import old files from years back (if they are still there). I’ll let you know how it goes. Lisa Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 12, 2021, at 5:35 PM, David Carlson <david.carlson....@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Sub accounts under the same bank account are not the same as transfer s to > outside accounts. > > If I recall correctly, they must be of the same type as the parent account. > I think that should still work as before in reconciliations. Were you able > to import your table of accounts from an old file or did you start over, > possibly different somehow this time? > > > >> On Tue, Oct 12, 2021, 7:18 PM Lisa Reynoso <mrs.reyn...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Okay, first, I don’t know what version I had before. It was about 2 years >> ago that I downloaded it, and my hard drive was wiped, so I have no idea. >> >> Second, you completely misunderstood my problem. I understand the >> reconciliation process intricately; I’ve been using it for a decade and a >> half. I understand about clicking the “include sub accounts” box; it’s the >> sub account feature that turned me on to the program, since I was doing that >> on paper as my mother did; a computer was so much faster, since it did most >> of the math for me. I like math, but it gets tedious entering numbers in a >> calculator. But I digress. >> >> There are two basic examples to illustrate. I have a checking account, >> divided into various sub accounts, such as gas, groceries, clothing, school >> bill, etc. When I deposit a paycheck, I split the deposit into various >> accounts. Likewise when i purchase both food and toothpaste at the grocery >> store; toothpaste doesn’t come from the food budget. When I want to >> reconcile the checking, I used to be able to check one of those splits and >> have them all highlight. So if I checked the toothpaste transaction, the >> grocery charge would check as well. Of course the expense account wouldn’t >> reconcile; I wasn’t referring to that. >> >> But the other example is when I transfer money within the checking account >> from one sub account to another. Like my original gas to groceries (or vice >> versa) analogy. In that case, when I would check the credit, the debit would >> check automatically as well, and the balance on the reconciliation would not >> change, because no money actually entered or left the checking. It was just >> moved around within it. Now I have to check one and then scroll down to find >> the other. I make several dozen of these transactions every month, and it is >> tedious to have to check them both. >> >> I downloaded version 4.4 when this problem first made itself felt. I >> downloaded 3.11 today, and it still doesn’t do what it used to. I have >> Windows 10; I don’t know if an earlier version will work or not. >> >> Lisa >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> > On Oct 12, 2021, at 2:09 PM, davidcousen...@gmail.com wrote: >> > >> > Lisa >> > >> > It may help if you can tell us what the previous version was and which >> > version >> > you have now upgraded to. >> > >> > On the reconciliation setup dialog under the Ending Balance entry there is >> > a >> > checkbox "Include subaccounts" which AFAIK by default is not checked. Try >> > selecting that when starting the reconciliation and see if that restores >> > some of >> > the functionality you are used to. As far as I can tell once you have >> > selected >> > that option in the dialog for a given account it remains in force for >> > subsequent >> > reconciliations until you unselect it again but I am not completely sure >> > how >> > sticky that option is and whether it does set a flag in the account >> > structure. >> > >> > Any reconciliation process only acts on a single account and as such only >> > marks >> > the splits of a transaction into that that account. You do not reconcile a >> > whole >> > transaction unless you have individually reconciled all accounts that the >> > transaction has splits to. Splits to an account which has not been >> > reconciled >> > will generally be marked with a "n" ( and maybe a "c" in some cases) and >> > splits >> > to a reconciled account with a "y". If a previous version of GNuCash did >> > do this >> > then that behaviour was incorrect. I have been using GnuCash for a similar >> > period of time and I can't recall any version in which a whole transaction >> > not >> > just the split was reconciled. >> > >> > David Cousens >> > >> >> On Tue, 2021-10-12 at 12:29 -0700, Lisa Reynoso wrote: >> >> I've used GNU cash for years. Like, over 15 years. I used it before I was >> >> married, so it's definitely been more than 15 years. >> >> >> >> Anyway, I never upgrade except when I get a new computer, and then I >> >> install whatever is the latest, and transfer the files from the old >> >> version >> >> (or in my most recent case, I just started over, because the computer >> >> reformatted without my permission--yeah, that was a nightmare!). When this >> >> latest install happened, something had changed about how the >> >> reconciliation >> >> works. Always before when I had a transfer from one subaccount within an >> >> account to another, or if it was a split transaction, when I would check >> >> one box in the reconciliation window, all boxes pertaining to that >> >> transaction would check. For example, suppose I had extra gas money at the >> >> end of the month, but had overspent my grocery fund. I could transfer from >> >> the gas to the grocery subaccounts, and when I reconciled, I could check >> >> one box and it would mark them on both the credit and debit sides, without >> >> me having to hunt for the opposite transaction. Likewise, when I deposit a >> >> check, I usually divide it among various accounts, and all I had to do was >> >> click one of the subaccount deposits, and all the other deposits from the >> >> same check would be marked as well. Now, that's not the case. And I can't >> >> find an old enough version for Windows 10 that does that anymore. Anyone >> >> have any ideas? It now takes almost twice as long for me to reconcile, >> >> since I have a lot of subaccounts and do a lot of internal transferring >> >> within my checking account that doesn't show up on my bank statement. >> >> Having to look for the parallel transactions or figuring out which split >> >> transactions go together takes more time. I'm almost ready to try to find >> >> some other software, but I've used this for so long I really don't want to >> >> switch. >> >> >> >> Lisa >> >> >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> gnucash-user mailing list >> gnucash-user@gnucash.org >> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >> If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see >> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. >> ----- >> 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 To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. 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