There are plans to support "accounting periods", so you would only
load the most recent "accounting period", and would have to do something
"special" to see previous periods. However thank functionality is not
complete.
-derek
Brian Francois <hesperia@pacbell.net> writes:
> I have been using GnuCash for a couple of months now and I have a couple
> of suggestions. First is performance related. I dumped about 12 years
> of Quicken data into GnuCash. The datafile is now over 10 megabytes,
> without the daily stock data, and it takes a long time (several minutes)
> for the GnuCash screen to appear, or to save and exit. I am sure the
> size of the data is the reason for the sluggishness. Given that history
> I would suggest some mechanism to trim the data. Perhaps a tool that
> would trim all data from selected accounts prior to some specified
> date. Even better trim the data dumping it into a file named
> <datFileName>.pre.<specifiedDate> (or something) then create some
> mechanism to open and read a previous file if requested.
>
> Another way to approach this problem would be to export data from a
> specified date into a new file, which leads into the second
> recommendation. An export tool that is useful. An export tool, dare I
> make the comparison, like Quickens that allows selecting account(s) and
> dates, or possibly all accounts for a given date. Also it would be nice
> to export data into a format that other programs could use. You can
> Import data from Quicken format so it would be nice if you could export
> in a Quicken format as well. Personally, I think it should handle
> importing/exporting into Microsoft Money format as well (but that is
> another issue).
>
> I guess that's all
> -brian
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