Close book + new file

[marcus.wolschon at googlemail.com]

On Sun, 04 Jan 2009 15:37:35 -0600, Mark <snark at pobox.com> wrote:
> The issue I have with the script is that it does not handle non-currency
> transactions.  I.e: stocks.  I also use gnucash in a less-than-proper
> accounting manner in that I always have all assets on the books,
> regardless of when they were purchased.  My interest in purging is
> getting rid of non-interesting transactions.  In other words, the exact
> amount I paid for my electricity bill in January of 1995 is really no
> longer interesting to me, but the price I paid for a share of stock in
> 1995 is still interesting to me and the price I paid for all utilities
> over the past 5 years is still interesting.

There is a third-party tool here:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jgnucashlib/jGnucashEditor-bin-2.0.13.zip?modtime=1229543006&big_mirror=0
that contains a plugin to split a gnucash-file at a given date.
It works with non-currency -transactions and keeps stock-quotes
intact.
https://apps.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/jgnucashlib/index.php?title=SplitterToolPlugin

It does not selectively keep transactions that are before the split-data
(default is the first of january of the current year) as you wanted but
seems to work better then the perl-script regarding multiple currencies
and stocks.

Marcus