Preventing unbounded file growth

[M Prindle]

On 4/16/2010 5:04 PM, FireFly wrote:
>> The reason for going to all this trouble is that unbounded
>> file growth can
>> get to be a nasty problem.  In traditional accounting,
>> you could just put
>> the books for past years into dead storage.
>>      
> This is where I'd question whether it IS a problem, sure it can be a nasty problem, I have some spreadsheets that rapidly expand (because I have to put daily data into them, and excel is a pig when it comes to file management/sizes in general) but my question would be, IS this a problem for anyone, what file sizes are you reaching, is it becoming some sort of problem (size of file too large, taking too long to do something, etc etc).
>
> I'm curious to know others file sizes, simply because I only use GnuCash for personal use, and what would you consider "too large" (assuming that everyone leaves on the compression).
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> Personally, I like having all the history, but that's me :)
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At this point I don't see much of an issue of the file sizes getting out 
of hand.  I started using GNUCash at the start of '09 so I now have 1.25 
years or so worth of data.  This includes several checking and savings 
account, plus all of our small business stuff.  The compressed file size 
is 183k.  In the future when the next stable version is released it will 
be database driven so the file size pretty much a moot point since the 
time to save and open pretty much goes away with the XML file.