I've suddenly found my checking account doesn't reconcile. Somehow, I'm missing $25.32 worth of debits. I assume that I deleted a/some reconciled transaction(s) either accidentally or by ignorance since my last reconcile. My question is: can deleting a category or a tracker delete the transactions in that category or with that tracker assigned, or will deleting the category/tracker simply modify the transaction to contain a blank field?

I know I'd tried to clean up some bogus categories lately. Like "Food > Groceries'" (see that extra punctuation caused by fatfingering the <Enter> key? It was bugging me that I'd put those in, and wanted to clean up things. I also had some trackers that were no longer needed, since I'd changed my scheme of using them, and I did the same deleting those. Did this cause my pain? Or must I have simply hit <Delete> accidentally sometime?

I'm pretty sure I need to add a fake transaction to make the account reconcile, and that's ok, since it's not so huge to really throw off my spending analysis, but I'd like to know for the future if I was "doing it wrong".

(Also, in unrelated news, I discovered a duplicate un-reconciled transaction in my search. It was a check that the payee had deposited more than 30 days after I'd written it. So when I went to merge with downloaded transaction, it didn't show up -- my filter only goes 30 days deep most of the time, and there's no exception for un-reconciled transactions like Skrooge had previously. I still miss this capability.)

rbruce wrote:I've suddenly found my checking account doesn't reconcile. Somehow, I'm missing $25.32 worth of debits. I assume that I deleted a/some reconciled transaction(s) either accidentally or by ignorance since my last reconcile. My question is: can deleting a category or a tracker delete the transactions in that category or with that tracker assigned, or will deleting the category/tracker simply modify the transaction to contain a blank field?

No, if you delete/reorganize categories, trackers or payees, the corresponding transactions will be updated but NOT deleted.

rbruce wrote:I know I'd tried to clean up some bogus categories lately. Like "Food > Groceries'" (see that extra punctuation caused by fatfingering the <Enter> key? It was bugging me that I'd put those in, and wanted to clean up things. I also had some trackers that were no longer needed, since I'd changed my scheme of using them, and I did the same deleting those. Did this cause my pain? Or must I have simply hit <Delete> accidentally sometime?

I'm pretty sure I need to add a fake transaction to make the account reconcile, and that's ok, since it's not so huge to really throw off my spending analysis, but I'd like to know for the future if I was "doing it wrong".

If your account is no more reconciliated, this could be due to:
1-Click on delete. But on a "checked" operations, you should have a confirmation panel.
2-Manual check of an operation (CTRL+right click on the check box of an operation)
3-Modification of "checked" operations with "Search and process"

My prognostic: 2

rbruce wrote:(Also, in unrelated news, I discovered a duplicate un-reconciled transaction in my search. It was a check that the payee had deposited more than 30 days after I'd written it. So when I went to merge with downloaded transaction, it didn't show up -- my filter only goes 30 days deep most of the time, and there's no exception for un-reconciled transactions like Skrooge had previously. I still miss this capability.)

smankowski wrote:If your account is no more reconciliated, this could be due to:
1-Click on delete. But on a "checked" operations, you should have a confirmation panel.
2-Manual check of an operation (CTRL+right click on the check box of an operation)
3-Modification of "checked" operations with "Search and process"

My prognostic: 2

Thanks.

I'm glad the problem wasn't due to my misunderstanding of a feature. Sadly, I still can't figure out exactly where I made the error, but that's really beyond the scope of what Skrooge can help me with. Too bad my bank only lets me download the last 90 days of transactions, or I would just re-import everything and find the discrepancy I did try looking at my 2.5 years of paper statements with no success. It is, of course, possible I deleted 2 or more transactions totaling the amount of the error (rather than a single one in the exact amount).

Thanks again for the reassurance that I can clean categories and trackers without breaking anything.