Year end, import/export

[marcus.wolschon at googlemail.com]

On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:23:06 -0800 (PST), gnucash at ew.ewheeler.org wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, John R. Carter, Sr. wrote:
>> Export the Chart of Accounts:
>> File > Export > Export accounts
>>
>> The new file has no transactions in it. You then have to enter the
>> beginning
>> balances for all accounts. This could be a real hassle if you have a lot
>> of
>> stocks you want to track, a lot of scheduled transactions you want to 
>> preserve, and maybe a few other issues I can't think of right now.
> 
> Exactly.  I am trying to create an empty book for 2009 and preserve all
of 
> the customers and scheduled transactions.  Since one currently 
> cannot export scheduled transactions nor customers, I would like to:
>    1.  Copy the 2008 file to a 2009 file.
>    2.  Delete all transactions from the 2009 file
>    3.  Place beginning balances for appropriate accounts.
> 
> So, is there a way to take an existing book and delete all transactions? 
> Can I delete everything in the General Ledger?


This is the same as the "Close book + new file" -thread.
You can use my tool (jGnucashEditor with the included Splitter-Plugin)
or the perl-script to delete transactions prior to a given date.

Marcus