I'm using Quicken Classic for Windows. Issue seems to have started in last couple of months but unclear if tied to an update. Here is generally what occurred. I reconcile my checking account every month and download transactions via direct connect with my bank. At end of April 2024, everything reconciled. In May, I had a series of transactions as follows. I deposited a check for $3850 early in the month. Two weeks later, I transferred the money ($3850) to an outside account. By mistake I hit transfer twice so on May 14th $7700 of money actually transferred out. Realizing my error, I decided to wait a week for transfers to clear. Then I transferred $3850 from the external account back into regular checking account.
When I went to reconcile first of June, my Quicken account kept showing a balance of $3850 less than my bank statement. I re-downloaded several times. I confirmed balance with my bank. I confirmed all transactions of this amount appeared correctly in register, but no matter what I did, it did not reconcile. I even deleted all four May transactions of $3850 and then reconciled again. Quicken register still showed balance $3850 less than my bank.
I tried unmarking all of May transactions and re-reconciling but no change. In the end, the only thing that worked was to modify the quicken registers opening balance, which oddly appeared as -$3050 way back in year 2009. So I updated that to read as $800, thus changing 15 years worth of balances by $3850. I reconciled again and everything came out even as expected.
Anyone else experience this. Did my opening balance somehow get modified?
