I run into such issues once in every one or two blue moons. The starting balance is off. I’ve reconciled successfully the previous month, but something somehow (dis)appeared in the meantime. I assume it disappeared, although the symptoms could be generated by something appearing.
I hope it’s more than a year old, and live with it. Meaning I do a balance adjustment and move on. It’s disturbing, but the size of my file is such that I have no reasonable means of tracking down whatever may have happened. Possible that it’s user error, but unlikely. Possible that it results from one of the periodic crashes I experience, or power failures, that appear to be fully recovered from at the time. Pretty much impossible to reproduce. If it is due to user error, that would be an argument in favour of the ability to mark old transactions as read-only. Yes I’m very aware that “read-only” can be worked around. But when it’s about protecting one from oneself, that kind of read-only could be useful. If it’s due to bit rot/power glitches/crash recovery, not so much. > On Apr 12, 2022, at 6:09 AM, Liz <ed...@billiau.net> wrote: > > On Mon, 11 Apr 2022 14:36:41 -0700 (PDT) > Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> wrote: > >> Every now and then one of my bank accounts doesn't reconcile because >> what the bank shows differs from what GnuCash shows. The amounts are >> significant. What puzzles me is that the previous month's balances >> (bank and GC) match and so do all the transactions. But, the end of >> month balances don't match. > > Rich when I get into a mess, I do very small increments on the > reconcile. For example, just choosing a date about 10 transactions > down, or one week, and then I will go through very slowly, doing small > chunks. > Assume this is one month, and I am doing weekly... > I find the bank's ending balance for 7th of month, put 7th of correct > month and the balance from the bank statement into the reconcile > dialogue, and check off that week's items from the bank statement. When > the residual is zero, I mark finished, and move forward to the 14th. > (Procedure loops) > > By looking at such a small number of transactions it is possible to > find whatever the errors are. > I too have been on Gnucash for a couple of decades, but still found 4 > errors in one file this March, payments not entered as received, and > digit transposition. > > I hope you find what is happening and let us know. > > liz > _______________________________________________ > 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. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
