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
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