'save off' last year's data ??

[Dave Peticolas]

Jeff Clark writes:
> Rob Browning wrote:
> > 
> > Thomas Spahni <tsp@lawbiz.ch> writes:
> > 
> > > So, what is the suggested work around? Start with a new filename
> > > and re-enter all accounts? Or -- is there any easy way to delete
> > > everything except the accounts from a copy?
> > 
> > Well, with the newer XML version data files, if you're handy with a
> > text editor, you could conceivably just make a copy of the file and
> > edit it to delete all of the <transaction> blocks.  That should
> > preserve your account hierarchy.
> > 
> > In the long run, we want to do something more like "closing the
> > books", which involves some accounting entries to roll up your income
> > and expenses for the year, etc.
> > 
> > --
> > Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930
> 
> I'm really looking forward to this particular feature.  My gnucash file
> has data from January of '98 and it's getting much too big: completion
> of a new transaction (based on a previous transaction) takes several
> seconds and it's getting tiresome.

Yes, 1.4.x is slow for this. The next version will be much faster.
In the meantime, you should be able to speed things up by unchecking
'show all transactions' in the Settings/Register dialog.

dave