Still unable to split off the old years transaction from the gnucash file using jGnucashEditor-bin-2.0.26

[Colin Law]

On 26 April 2012 08:53, Vivek Agrawal <vickymnit at gmail.com> wrote:
> Colin, Yes you are right at that point.
> But the point I am making here, is that what is the benefit of loading the
> file of larger size when you do not require the content of whole at the same
> point of time. The optimal way is to load only that part which requires
> changes. This part can be selected by user.
> In another way, we can think it as, some organizations generally keep the
> last 1 or 5 or 10 financial year transactions (depending on their business
> requirement). The previous transactions (i.e. before 1 or 5 or 10 years) are
> saved in archived. This also enables them to keep the earlier records safe
> and untouchable. Also, if required those files can be opened separately to
> make sure those transactions are still accessible. So, I was thinking if
> this could be implemented in some way in GnuCash also.

What is the benefit of not loading the whole file, apart from a few
seconds when loading/saving?
Eventually I believe it is planned that when using the database format
rather than the xml version it will only load data as it needs it, so
then the fact that the old data is still there will not matter at all.

Colin

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> Regards,
> Vivek Agrawal
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> On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
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>> On 26 April 2012 05:29, Vivek Agrawal <vickymnit at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Thanks for the reply.
>> > So do we have similar option in GNUcash only i.e. functionality of
>> > splitting off the old years transactions from the gnucash file?
>> > I'm asking this because the file is growing in size and I have to keep
>> > the
>> > whole file while the old transactions are irrelevant for me.
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>> Usually this is not an issue as over the years the power of your PC
>> will increase much quicker than the size of the file.
>> For example in the years that I have been using gnucash the file has
>> grown to a couple of Megabytes whilst my hard disk has grown from 10GB
>> to 400GB and my PC has quadrupled in speed.
>>
>> Colin L.
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