Hi, On Sun, 21 Dec 2025, at 11:05 AM, [email protected] wrote: > If your starting and ending balances are correct without this transaction > included, then there's something wrong. Either the transaction doesn't really > exist, or another one of equal amount (which has itself been reconciled) > doesn't exist.
The transaction certainly exists... it's from one my accounts to my checking account, and I see both sides in the two bank statements for that date. The savings account side of the transaction is reconciled in GnuCash, but the checking account is not. > Perhaps this transaction belongs in another account in your finances? I've > been known to have that happen, especially when auto fill kicks in. No, it definitely belongs in my checking account. > > The only way to truly figure it all out is to dereconcile back to before the > transaction in question and re do everything again, very carefully. How do I dereconcile multiple months of transactions? It it just mark all of them individually as not reconciled? > > You could just leave it there until you figure out what it is. I'm trying to figure it out now :-) It's long enough past the date that it should be clear. I can try this in a copy of my file as a last > > Or you could just delete the mystery transaction. If I did that, I would then have a problem in my savings account. Thanks for the suggestions though! Randy > > David T. > > On Dec 21, 2025, 4:14 PM, at 4:14 PM, Randy Orrison <[email protected]> wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I have a transaction in my checking account from a couple months ago > >that I can't reconcile. It's showing as unreconciled in the register, > >but when I mark it as reconciled while doing reconciliation, the > >balance is off by the amount of that transaction. > > > >When I do reconciliation of statements on that account, the starting > >and ending balances are correct, but that one transaction - which has > >cleared through the bank and appeared on the statement for that month - > >can't be reconciled. > > > >I've looked to see if there's some other transaction on the wrong date > >for that amount, or perhaps it was entered into the wrong account, or > >anything else, but there's no explanation I can see other than that I > >accidentally marked it as unreconciled at some point and ignored the > >warning. > > > >Is there some way to just mark it as reconciled, to correct the error I > >made by marking it as unreconciled? > > > >Thanks, > > > >Randy > >_______________________________________________ > >gnucash-user mailing list > >[email protected] > >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 [email protected] 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.
