Re: Account balance is right, but there's a missing transaction in MM+ by Steve
Steve
Fri Apr 25 12:48:13 CDT 2008
"Tom" <tomh5480@live.com> wrote on 25 Apr 2008 in group
microsoft.public.money:
> "Steve" <respond@online.newsgroup> wrote in message
> news:Xns9A8B582709663184365720018436572@207.46.248.16...
>> "Tom" <tomh5480@live.com> wrote on 25 Apr 2008 in group
>> microsoft.public.money:
>>
>>> "Steve" <respond@online.newsgroup> wrote in message
>>> news:Xns9A8B4F58C8C6184365720018436572@207.46.248.16...
>>>>
>>>> Check your view settings. Maybe you're hiding reconciled
>>>> transactions, and that one is accidentally reconciled.
>>>
>>> View settings: Sort by date, All dates, All transactions, Top Line
>>> Only.
>>>
>>>> Look at the opening balance. Has it been adjusted by $100?
>>>
>>> It looks like it has been, if I factor in .02 (2 cent) transaction,
>>> which is also missing. What can I do about that?
>>
>> 1. From Windows Explorer, make a copy of your data file. Give it an
>> obvious name like "Copy of my money file to figure out bad
>> balance.mny" so you won't confuse it with the real thing later. Put
>> it on your desktop so you can find it easily.
>> 2. Double-click the copy you made to open it.
>> 3. Adjust the starting balance of your problem account by $100.02.
>> 4. Add the missing transactions.
>> 5. Check the current balance on the account.
>> 6. Go back and adjust the starting balance the other direction,
>> because everyone always does it backwards the first time. :)
>>
>> Once you prove to yourself that it's working, open your _real_ Money
>> file and repeat the process on live data.
> Thanks, Steve. Adjusting the beginning balance and manually adding
> the missing entries did it.
>
> Still, I wonder why the two entries failed to show in MM+. Two
> possibilities come to mind:
>
> 1. MM+ figured they were duplicates and just dropped them; if so,
> that's kind of wrong - I should be given the option of deleting the
> duplicates. I don't know if this is the case, because I have other
> identical transactions which are reflected in register line items.
> For example, Dollar Tree double-billed me on 2 separate transactions,
> and both billings showed up for both transactions.
>
> 2. Whatever method MM+ is using to retrieve transactions from
> Woodforest National Bank is wonky; maybe Woodforest is deciding those
> entries are duplicates and not supplying them to MM+ (whether in a
> file, HTML/XML stream, whatever). I don't know if this is the case
> since all transactions are displayed on the website (but that may be
> a wholly separate process from the transaction retrieval that MM+
> uses).
>
> In any case, thanks again Steve.
As far as I know, Money doesn't try to edit your transactions. I make
multiple $40 deposits because that's a common bill to some of my
clients. Money has never tried to combine them. It sometimes _does_ get
confused about which downloaded transaction goes with which manually
entered transaction, but there's only so much it can do. I don't want
Money making assumptions.
Don't forget about the nut that holds the wheel. That's the case for my
problems about half the time.
--
Steve B.
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