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[GH-ISSUE #6482] [Bug]: overspent last month is wrong after deleting a category #72482
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Deleting a branch is permanent. Although the deleted branch may continue to exist for a short time before it actually gets removed, it CANNOT be undone in most cases. Continue?
Originally created by @cartoonnerie on GitHub (Dec 24, 2025).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/actualbudget/actual/issues/6482
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What happened?
I had 287,24€ arrived on a spending category (A) in october. In december I had a budget move from category A to another category B. I then deleted category A that had become irrelevant, and reassigned transactions from category A to my main income category.
Now I am in this weird situation with bot remaining budget and overbudgeted from december : see screenshot
If I hold to next month I no longer have money on to be budgeted december, but there is still "overspent from december" in january
I suspect that the 287,24€ are now overspent in the deleted category A that I cannot interact with, and now data is incorrect.
actual budget runs on v25.12.0, yunohost version
How can we reproduce the issue?
I suspect that, with two spending categories and one income category :
creates the bug
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What browsers are you seeing the problem on?
Firefox
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Linux
@youngcw commented on GitHub (Dec 24, 2025):
Try resetting your budget cache from the settings.
@cartoonnerie commented on GitHub (Dec 24, 2025):
Sorry I should have specified that. I did it and it did not fix the issue.
I also tried to "fix split transactions" but it did not work either and I don't really think it should have anyway, it seems to address something else.
@youngcw commented on GitHub (Dec 24, 2025):
I would have to see your budget to know for sure. Did you merge category A into something else? Likely your budget does show overspending somewhere. Check your hidden categories too.
@cartoonnerie commented on GitHub (Dec 24, 2025):
I did check hidden categories. The only one with a negative amount are rolling to next month and do not amount to 287,24€.
I did choose a category when I deleted category A, but it was a income category. I don't know if this could have messed things up. I realized I made a mistake describing the issue, I edit that right now.
If you need to see my budget, how can I send it relatively privately ?
@youngcw commented on GitHub (Dec 24, 2025):
You can DM me on discord
@e13h commented on GitHub (Jan 1, 2026):
I'm seeing a similar issue. Did there turn out to be a bug fix for this?
I was doing some end of year cleanup in my budget and deleted a few categories to consolidate into a single category and now I'm seeing that I overspent $160.59 last month but none of the categories are in the red.
I also tried clearing the cache and fixing split transactions to no effect. I'd be happy to DM my budget details if needed.
@cartoonnerie commented on GitHub (Jan 2, 2026):
Sorry I should have given news. My case resolved itself without any action that I noticed myself doing. So not very interesting to make an actual fix
@e13h commented on GitHub (Jan 2, 2026):
Interesting. The issue also resolved itself for me. I just edited a couple transactions (updated categories) and then the overspend discrepancy went away. Very strange!