On Monday, March 23rd, 2026 at 21:26, Mark at Lorimark
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> So, looking at one of my registers, I see a few hundred transactions up
> a reconciliation 'Y' is now a 'N'... I must have accidentality clicked
> on the column and cleared the reconciliation.
>
> How can I get the 'Y' reapplied without having to go through all the
> reconciliation steps all over again?
How easy do you find it to use a text editor?
Let's have a look at what changes, in the GnuCash XMK file, after a
reconciliation is performed
For each transaction that got reconciled, this is the diff
13789c13912,13915
< <split:reconciled-state>c</split:reconciled-state>
---
> <split:reconciled-state>y</split:reconciled-state>
> <split:reconcile-date>
> <ts:date>2026-03-24 15:59:59 +0000</ts:date>
> </split:reconcile-date>
So the "c" got changed to a "y" and a three-line stanza got
added that contains the date of the reconciliation
Now let's see what happens if we unreconcile a single TXN,
the diff in the file is even smaller - can you guess why?
13912c13912
< <split:reconciled-state>y</split:reconciled-state>
---
> <split:reconciled-state>n</split:reconciled-state>
So all that's happened is that a "y" got changed to an "n"
Better still, if we look at the file, starting from the
state line
<split:reconciled-state>n</split:reconciled-state>
<split:reconcile-date>
<ts:date>2026-03-24 15:59:59 +0000</ts:date>
</split:reconcile-date>
we see that the stanza containing the date we did the
reconciliation on is STILL IN THE FILE, even though
the TXN is marked as not being reconciled now.
Isn't GnuCash's XML storage format wonderful!
Just make sure you make a backup before you start to
edit things, and give it a try.
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