Reconciled Transactions changed back to Cleared - at least two different accounts

Phil Burton

One Checking account and one Line of Credit.  Many transactions, going back over two years, suddenly got their reconcile status changed.

I just noticed this issue today because I am reconciling accounts against monthly statements.  I did not notice this issue when I reconciled these accounts a month ago.

Any ways to prevent this from happening again?

Tom Young

I'm not sure if this will do the trick, but it might. 

1. Periodically, like maybe every month, protect historical transactions by File > Set passwords to modify transactions...  You can still modify past transactions if you need to, you just need to enter the password to do so.
2. Do Edit > Preferences > Notify and make sure "Before changing reconciled transactions" is checked.

Even before doing that though I'd advise File > File Operations > Copy... and then using the copied file File > File Operations > Validate and Repair...

What you've described should not happen and I assume it's not "user error" but it could be some sort of data corruption if the file itself.