Hello John, About the below. When you open the backup file from two weeks ago and you see the two duplicated transactions, enable the option to see splits on both transactions to see if something else was added to the transaction that might have created that extra 11,000 appearing when you delete one of them. What I am trying to say is that generally in my case what I do sometimes is duplicate transactions to go faster in my bookkeeping entries and if I duplicate a transaction with splits in it my bank will balance but the extra splits might be creating ghosts entries that you might not notice until something else looks weird or breaks (Orphan or Imbalance accounts for example). Also check the suggestions other people have offered
Hi, > I have been using GnuCash for many years. I am not a sophisticated > user, and primarily use it to keep track of my checking account. I > reconcile monthly, and once every few years I’m off by a few cents or > dollars. Today I reconciled the account and I was off by 70.10. I > unchecked every entry and stared at it for a while. I think I may have > exited reconciling, but not completed. There were many c’s in the > reconcile column. I stared at the reconciliation for a while and found > that there were two entries for 70.10. I deleted one, and repeated the > reconciliation. I am not off by over $11,000. I keep track of my > Accounts.gnucash file with git, so I can recover the previous version from > 2 weeks ago. When I open that file, I see no c’s in the reconcile column. > When I repeat the reconciliation process, I am still getting an $11,000 > error. It seems something is being remembered. I found some on-line > threads that suggest that the previous balance is not correct, and that > makes sense, but I don’t want to do something like that without some > understanding of what happened. > Can anybody tell me what might have happened and point me to a > resource on how to fix it? Thank you, John. I hope this helps. Regards, Maria Inmaculada de la Torre Ruiz On Mon, 30 Sept 2024 at 18:46, John Dzielski <johnedziel...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I have been using GnuCash for many years. I am not a sophisticated > user, and primarily use it to keep track of my checking account. I > reconcile monthly, and once every few years I’m off by a few cents or > dollars. Today I reconciled the account and I was off by 70.10. I > unchecked every entry and stared at it for a while. I think I may have > exited reconciling, but not completed. There were many c’s in the > reconcile column. I stared at the reconciliation for a while and found > that there were two entries for 70.10. I deleted one, and repeated the > reconciliation. I am not off by over $11,000. I keep track of my > Accounts.gnucash file with git, so I can recover the previous version from > 2 weeks ago. When I open that file, I see no c’s in the reconcile column. > When I repeat the reconciliation process, I am still getting an $11,000 > error. It seems something is being remembered. I found some on-line > threads that suggest that the previous balance is not correct, and that > makes sense, but I don’t want to do something like that without some > understanding of what happened. > Can anybody tell me what might have happened and point me to a > resource on how to fix it? Thank you, John. > _______________________________________________ > 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. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
