Both previous replies were on target-- but, I do wonder how you finished the first reconciliation, since GnuCash won't activate the finish button until the Difference value is zero. If the transaction was wrong, the balance would be non-zero?
David T. On Jun 25, 2023, 12:26 PM, at 12:26 PM, "Maf. King" <m...@chilwell.net> wrote: >Hi Gregory, > >welcome to the list and Gnucash. > > >Just ignore that the starting balance is wrong, go through the >reconcilliation >as normal aiming for the correct ending balance. > >should sort itself out. >HTH, >Maf > > >On Thursday, 22 June 2023 01:08:01 BST Gregory Donavon wrote: >> I hope you can help me unwind an error I made after not following >one of >> the steps in a busybee post video on youtube: I transposed a couple >of >> numbers on one transaction, this resulted in there being a difference >of a >> few dollars. Rather than hitting "postpone," I hit "finished" with >the plan >> of coming back later to figure out the location of the error. When I >> changed the transposed entry to the correct amount, that didn't >correct the >> problem because when I went back in to reconcile , the starting >balance was >> wrong and I could not change it or bring up the original >reconciliation >> page. Is there anything I can do - this is my first month using >gnucash. >> Any suggestions you have for reversing the transactions would be >> appreciated. >> >> Thanks for your help, >> Gregory Donavon >> _______________________________________________ >> 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. _______________________________________________ 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.
