unreconciliating balances from 2 months back

mjbarr3

how do I go back and change a reconciliation from 2 months ago. Seem I made a mistake on the July recon and now its effecting my current balance. Can you help ?

Sherlock

Generally, the easiest way to undo a change in a Quicken file is to restore a backup of the Quicken file saved before the change was made.

The only way reconciliation should change the current balance is if you edited the amount of a transaction or accepted an adjustment transaction.

Note: If you reset the transactions' Cleared (aka Clr) field from Reconciled (R) to Cleared (c) or Uncleared, and the transactions become available to be reconciled again.

Sherlock

Generally, the easiest way to undo a change in a Quicken file is to restore a backup of the Quicken file saved before the change was made.

The only way reconciliation should change the current balance is if you edited the amount of a transaction or accepted an adjustment transaction.

Note: If you reset the transactions' Cleared (aka Clr) field from Reconciled (R) to Cleared (c) or Uncleared, and the transactions become available to be reconciled again.

mjbarr3

Thanks for the reply Sherlock, I just entered a reverse transaction in the same amount to get my balance closer to what my bank says and my comfort zone. I must have accepted a bal adjust, but I can't / don't now why. But I'll keep looking and resolve this b4 my next reconciliation.

Sherlock

mjbarr3 said:

Thanks for the reply Sherlock, I just entered a reverse transaction in the same amount to get my balance closer to what my bank says and my comfort zone. I must have accepted a bal adjust, but I can't / don't now why. But I'll keep looking and resolve this b4 my next reconciliation.

To determine the source of the change, I suggest you compare the running balance of the account register in the current Quicken file with the running balance of the account register from a Quicken file backup saved when the account was previously reconciled.  One way to accomplish this is to print the registers to text files.