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! >>> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. >>> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. >> -derek >> > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Derek Atkins 617-623-3745 de...@ihtfp.com www.ihtfp.com Computer and Internet Security Consultant _______________________________________________ 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.
