Re: HELP! I need to undo my last reconciliation!

At 6/26/2011 11:18 PM -0400, Andy Pastuszak wrote:
>My wife was reconciling an account and accidentally clicked on done.
>Is there any way to undo a reconciliation.

Does she really need to undo it, or just to complete it? If the 
latter, simply reconcile again. Enter the same target balance as 
before. The txns she already marked will not show in the 
reconciliation window, but that doesn't matter as long as they are 
all in the statement. The Beginning Balance won't match the statement 
because of the txns already cleared, but just ignore that. If she had 
marked a txn in error, then edit it in the register to change the 
cleared status to "Uncleared".

By way of explanation, we as users think of reconciling statements, 
but MD only tracks reconciled txns. MD helps to reconcile a statement 
by letting you enter a target balance and then mark off txns as 
cleared, but hitting Done only commits the Cleared flag (changes it 
from Reconciling to Cleared on the txns you marked). MD does not 
track statements.

If she really does need to back out the Cleared status changes, the 
only ways I see to do it are 1) see if there's a backup from just 
before the reconcile action, or 2) find the txns in the register 
which got marked Cleared and change their status to Uncleared.

Edward