ooops. i.e., the 12/31/04 reconciled balance...

We did this thread back in April--right about a month ago. See
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...e9077a5638440f.
FWIW, I still think it's reasonably logical to assume that telling Money to
archive transactions before date X should result in exactly that, whether
the transactions were reconciled or not. I don't archive, nor do I recommend
it. Way too much pain. No significant gain.

It seems like you have two choices:

1) What's wrong with changing the Account Beginning Balance in the Account
Details to reflect the transactions you added in that were not reflected in
the Beginning Balance after the archive--i.e., the 12/31/05 reconciled
balance? The "Balance this account" "Starting Balance" is nothing more than
the sum of the Account Beginning Balance and all Reconciled transactions. If
you want it to change, you have to play with one of these variables.

2) Un-archive. This wouldn't have been easy in April and it's one month
harder now. See http://umpmfaq.info/faqdb.php?q=29.

I doubt this answer will be any better on June 20th.

"Stephen Rybacki" <smr[at]yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Around the first of the year, I archive my Money 2003 file and it
messed up my checking account to the point where I have to change the
starting balance when I reconcile. It seems that Money archived all
transactions older than 1/1/2005, regardless of whether they were
reconciled yet or not! I could complain about that forever it ticks
me off so much.

I manually added back the transactions that were still outstanding and
if I fudge the starting balance each month, I am able to reconcile as
long as I take the "ignore differences" option when I am balanced by
my reckoning. My question is can I ever get the starting balance
fixed without mucking up my actual balance in my checking account, or
will I have to start a whole new file?

I still can't believe Money would archive unreconciled entries. That
seems like math 101 stuff to me.