So I'm in a bit of a pickle here. Here's what happened:
1) I accidentally connected my checking account a second time when adding a new one (I chose the start date of the new account, this will become important later). This created a new account and disconnected the bank account from the original.
2) Based on some bad advice somewhere else in this forum, I merged the two accounts and made the new account the surviving one.
3) I deleted duplicate transactions, including the opening balance that came in from the different start date.
All is well, except that all my reconciliations were lost. I would do those again (begrudgingly), but the beginning balance shown on the reconcile page is the deleted one from the new start date, and doesn't match anything that's now in the chart of accounts. It also doesn't match anything I can find in my bank statements.
The old beginning balance is still in the chart of accounts, so I'd like to start reconciling from that date and that balance. But how do I do that?
Overall I'm pretty frustrated that QBO didn't do anything to prevent this problem in the first place. It can't be that hard to notice that I'm trying to connect a bank account that's already connected! But if I can just re-reconcile, it won't take that long the second time.
