How do I find my past reconcile history?

Braun

I reconciled my checking account with no problem (I do it manually) for the month prior. Today I opened Quicken and it auto updated to a new revision. When I went to reconcile last month, it is putting my starting or prior balance into my cleared balance so when I select my transactions, my cleared balance increases and the difference is way off. I don't see a reconcile history feature as I have read in the discussions so I can go back and verify that my past month reconciliation was good. (Although I am pretty sure it is as I am very diligent when doing them. Could it be a bug in the new update?)

[Deleted User]

@braun, I don't know if this will help, but you can always print out prior reconciliation reports by going into Reports->Banking->Reconciliation.  When you do this, make sure you are in the account register that you want the report for.

Chris_QPW

Quicken Windows doesn't maintain a reconcile history (Quicken Mac actually has that feature though).

And one has to understand something about the reconcile report.  It is created from the current data, even if you are reporting for a previous time period.

What this means is say you reconciled last month with no problems, and today Quicken (or you) mess up and change a transaction in that past history the report is going to be with the messed-up transaction(s), not what those transactions looked like back when you reconciled in the past.

If you really need to see what the transactions/balances looked like back then you will need to open up a backup from that date.

Braun

@Damian Thanks for leading me to that report, it will be helpful to know that is there. I used the report to check my last reconciliation and it showed it was balanced.

@Chris_QPW Thanks for feed back. I did not make any changes to transactions in the past as there was no need to since I already reconciled them. I did take your advice and restored a copy of one of my backups before I did last months reconciliation. I redid that reconciliation and it balanced out fine. I then reopened my current file and verified all the transactions from my prior month statement matched and they did - so no changes were made as I thought. I decided to try one more time and this time everything balanced out (5th time doing it). The only thing I can think of is that when I opened Quicken yesterday it did an update and went right into opening my file. Maybe something got messed up there and when I reopened my current file after I closed it to open my backup copy, it set things straight????

In any case thanks for the help.

Chris_QPW

Notice above I stated "Quicken (or you)".  There have been reports of Quicken messing up prior transactions especially opening balances when using Express Web Connect and/or sync to Mobile/Web.  As such you have to be on the lookout for that kind of problem when strange things like this happens, not just what you might mess up.