I would like to put in my two cents about the warn or autolock Resolved/reconciled Transactions. If and when Splasm puts the warning, etc in a new version, upon unchecking accidentally or otherwise a message should come up saying "It appears that you want to unresolve this item...yes? no?"
I want to tell you why I feel that the wording of this message is critical. In some apps like Quicken, the program has "modules" or statements which are dated when actual reconciliations were done to the bank and then stored as successfully completed reconciliations. CheckBook Pro has no such stored records. I can think of times when I might feel the need to uncheck the resolved checkmark on purpose to solve a confusion in my mind. For instance, not to get too complicated but this did happen to me: Every month my gym automatically drafts my account at the bank for $16,96. Usually, I enter a future amount of the $16.06 in the CheckBook and leave it unresolved so I am sure there is enough money so I don't forget that the autodraft is going to occur and then my account would bounce. Now last month, suddenly, the gym drafted my account for $33.92. I did not catch on immediately until I used Quick Filter and all my brainpower to figure out that November's autodraft had not occurred and that the gym was getting last month's payment as well all in this lump sum. In the mean time, I started experimenting with checking and unchecking past $16.96's in a binge of illogic and even thought that the gym had increased their fee as of December. The point is that I didn't know and CheckBook couldn't know that certain $16.96 amounts were part of previously successfully reconciled statement periods because CheckBook has no mechanism for having stored successes of reconcile sessions with the bank. CheckBook doesn't know whether when you checked an entry, you succeeded or not or if you were just goofing around like me. Therefore, a statement upon accidentally unchecking a resolved transaction should not say "you are about to uncheck a resolved transaction!" because this may not be true. All CheckBook should say is that "This entry appears to be resolved. Do you want to unresolve it? Yes-No?" or You are about to unresolve an entry. Do you really want to do this?"
Another time, I accidentally unchecked a lot of money for an entry. Luckily, it wasn't 2 items or 3 that I unchecked! When I looked through the register and even when I used Quick Finder to filter and search on a certain set of deposits (since the some that the balanced was off in reconcile seemed familiar to me), I still couldn't find any unchecked amount. Soon I discovered that actually I had unchecked an item just before specifying a date range in Quick Finder and forgot to put the Quick Finder back to All Dates. When I did put the Quick Finder back to All Dates, there suddenly appeared the unchecked deposit that threw things off which lay outside the specified date range of the filter.
However, once I thought that I had unchecked an amount of deposit, but no unchecked items could be found. What had happened is that by default when one changes an entry, the amount field of a transaction is automatically highlighted and while changing the Type, I accidentally hit zero and replaced a the sum of money for that entry from what it was to zero. The reconciled balance of course went crazy and I thought it was due to checkmarks. Perplexity set in because the balance when not in reconcile mode was also crazy. I used Quick Finder and saw a deposit for zero which could be so, did some arithmetic and guesstimated to amount I goofed on. If this didn't work I would have had to resort to going to my backups and restoring before the goof off event. To solve this problem I went into preferences and to ENTRY and made the Date instead of the amount be highlighted by default upon changing an entry.
Sorry to be so longwinded in these examples, but I am not an accountant as you can see. There should be a carefully, logically worded statement telling you that you are about to uncheck an entry but maybe there should be an ever present statement next to the QuickFinder window saying "Filter on" or "Unfiltered" so that you don't trick yourself into a problem while massaging the data in your checkbook. Also, maybe the factory default for highlighted field during a change should not be the amount of the entry because you can go into edit an entry to do some pretty clever stuff and accidentally throw the amount off by accidentally hitting the delete key thinking you are deleting a Description or something and lose your amount. The balance will be crazy when you finish the editing or change. Apparently I have covered three separate suggestions in this one post in response to the checkmark issue.
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