Feature suggestion: bulk deletion of transactions

[Louis Mandelstam]

Hi,

I've seen a couple of requests for copying the account set to a new file 
without transactions, so that one can start a new year.

Personally, I don't like to break my accounting into years, but prefer to 
keep the last 12 months available.  So at any point in time, transactions 
going back as far back as (say) 12 months would be available.

So, how about a facility for bulk deleting all transactions in all 
accounts before a certain date, and simply replacing them all with 
"Carrier over" balances?   This would address both my preference for just 
zapping old transactions without starting a new set of account, while also 
working nicely for people who want to start a new year:  you'd simply copy 
your account set file to a new year and delete the previous year's 
transactions from it, leaving you with the correct set up accounts with 
opening balances already in them.

Perhaps one could optionally have such a deletion fail if it finds any 
non-reconciled transactions within the period to be deleted.  It may also 
be helpful to delete transactions from a specified date onwards, in case 
someone e.g. needs to split a file into more than one file covered 
sub-periods.

Comments?



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Louis Mandelstam                  System Administrator, InfoSat (Pty) Ltd