Close book + new file

[Phil Longstaff]

On January 4, 2009 03:40:38 pm Roberto Hernandez wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm in the process of closing the books for 2008. As far as I know,
> the Tools -> Close Book only creates transactions that zero the Income
> and Expense accounts. This approach is fine, but the system becomes
> slower because all transactions from the previous year remain in the
> data file.
>
> Therefore, in order to avoid the performance hit, I believe the only
> solution is to start a new data file for 2009. It's either that or
> changing to a database backend instead of XML ;-) (any plans for
> that?)

Actually, yes.  A database backend has been written and is still being tested.  
No idea when it will be generally available.

Phil
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