Peter, The roll back facility is already there and has been for years - it's called going back to a backup of your accounts file :-)
I'm assuming you're just using the bog standard xml data file here and are running on Windows. There is a preference under Preferences >> General that allows you to specify how many days to retain log/backup files which is defaulted to 30 days from memory, but you can set it to retain backups permanently and delete on an adhoc basis if you wish. So if you are using the xml backend Gnucash does this for you and on Windows at least keeps them in the same folder as your actual data file. Gnucash names them the same as your actual data file but includes a date and timestamp embedded in the name and they also have the usual .gnucash file suffix - e.g. if the actual data file was named "Gnucash_Data_From_2011_01_01.gnucash" the backups are named "Gnucash_Data_From_2011_01_01.gnucash.20240429182558.gnucash". You can open any of these backup files as a Gnucash data file. My suggestion would be to take a copy of your actual data file and put it somewhere safe before you do anything further and make a note of the date and time you did the reconciliation that you think was bad. Then open the backup file just prior to this date and time - hopefully whatever happened, occurred within your backup files window if you do have GnuCash setup to retain backups. If this backup file looks good to you, you can then choose to save this backup file as your actual data file name and start over - you need to do this last step of saving the backup file without the date and timestamp in the name, otherwise going forward you'll end up with some horrendous backup/log file names e.g. "Gnucash_Data_From_2011_01_01.gnucash.20240429182558.20240430054858.gnucash". This may mean re-entering/importing transactions from the date and time of the backup file - you could always export transactions from your actual data file to cover this period if that's an issue for you ? Hope this helps and you have a suitable backup file to go back to. Cheers David H. On Wed, 29 May 2024 at 23:34, Peter Cuthbert via gnucash-user <gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > > > Dear Everybody > > Many thanks for your responses to my Reconciliation problem. > > I have been examining my accounts and have managed to find part of the > problem. A £10K transfer out of the bank account to a new saving > account became 'flipped' from a payment to a receipt. Looking at the > details I set up for the savings a/c I made the wrong choices so that it > was shown as an outgoing not an incoming. That clearly accounts for the > £20k of difference but where the other odds and ends that dribbled it > down to 19K came from I have no idea. > > In exasperation I have looked at some of the other account programs that > are out there on the Internet but it looks as if they are keen to simply > import one's bank statement. I cannot see how they would cope with > credit card payements other than as a single lump DD. That is no use to > me as I use the credit card as a payments card and need to analyse the > statements. Thus it looks as if I will have to wind the reconciliation > back transaction by transaction and get GNUCash corrected. > > So final thought for the GNUCash programmers. Please consider a 'roll > back' facility so that one can correct mistakes. Indeed an 'opening > balance' entry request for Reconciliations would be useful with a > warning message that the value one has entered is not what the system > holds. If that happened one would not go ahead with the reconciliation, > but go back and look for obvious mistakes. > > Best wishes > > Pete > > ------ Original Message ------ > From: gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To: blake.hannaf...@gmail.com Cc: gnucash-user@gnucash.org > Sent: Tuesday, May 28th 2024, 21:40 > Subject: Re: [GNC] Reconciliation Roll Back (Peter Cuthbert) > Generally, I find that transactions ONLY get dereconciled due to an > action I have taken-- like changing some element of said transaction. > They don't just "get unreconciled"-- at least, not for me. > There was a short period of time where the app was very strict about > when a transaction was dereconciled, but that change was modified after > user feedback. I believe that recent versions only dereconcile a > transaction when you modify a material detail, like the amount or the > date. If you are having this as a longstanding problem, it would be > useful to everyone to figure out what is going on, so that the problem > can be addressed-- regardless of where the problem lies. Dereconciling > transactions is not a minor matter when it comes to accounting software. > David T. On May 28, 2024, 8:51 PM, at 8:51 PM, Blake Hannaford wrote: > >I find this has been a longstanding problem. Every once in a while, > >old >transactions get unreconciled. I always open GC the same way so > I'm >sure >I'm not opening backups. > >Blake Hannaford > >-- > >_______________________________________________ >gnucash-user mailing > list >gnucash-user@gnucash.org >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. > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing > list gnucash-user@gnucash.org 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. 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