Archiving Transactions?

[Russell Lear]

I'm a recent convert to gnucash from MSMoney.  It seems to be a tool that is 
probably more than I really need (but I'll use it anyway!).

My problem is that generating reports takes forever - where "forever" for the 
example Welcome report is really only 5 - 8 minutes but I get impatient at 
times.  Part of the problem is my machine (500MHz with 128MB RAM running Suse 
8.2 Linux).  And part of it is probably the amount of data I have accumulated 
over the years going back to 1995.

Is there a safe strategy for somehow archiving very old transactions without 
screwing up the accounts (Just deleting them seems like a real bad idea).  
Something to speed things up a little in the reports.

Or is there another approach entirely?  I'm reasonably fluent in Scheme, but I 
suspect all the hooks are there to do what I want without resorting to that.

Practice sprint meditation while reports are generated?  Play games?

I only got the help installed last night (thanks to a recent thread here), so 
there's a good chance a closer reading of the manual would answer my 
questions - but I don't see it.

Thanks,
Russell.

PS - for what it's worth, installing, converting to and learning gnucash (even 
without the Help documents) was surprisingly easy.  My compliments to the 
chefs!