Preventing unbounded file growth

[David T.]

Indeed, I think the problem is overrated. My account file, which goes back 6 years, is 1.5MB compressed, and 18.3MB uncompressed. This file and all the logfiles, reports, pdf statements in support of this file all fit nicely in the 500MB secure partition I created for this purpose. NONE of this gets close to challenging the 80GB HDD my laptop originally came with, let alone the 320GB HDD I bought for $60 and installed last month.

Seriously--you don't have any photos, videos, or mp3s on your computer? Those files eat HDD magnitudes of order faster.

For the record, my data file has the following stats:

<gnc:count-data cd:type="commodity">60</gnc:count-data>
<gnc:count-data cd:type="account">345</gnc:count-data>
<gnc:count-data cd:type="transaction">9726</gnc:count-data>
<gnc:count-data cd:type="schedxaction">2</gnc:count-data>
<gnc:count-data cd:type="budget">4</gnc:count-data>
<gnc:count-data cd:type="gnc:GncInvoice">7</gnc:count-data>
<gnc:count-data cd:type="gnc:GncCustomer">2</gnc:count-data>
<gnc:count-data cd:type="gnc:GncEmployee">1</gnc:count-data>
<gnc:count-data cd:type="gnc:GncVendor">4</gnc:count-data>

David

--- On Fri, 4/16/10, M Prindle <mprindle at pobox.com> wrote:

> From: M Prindle <mprindle at pobox.com>
> Subject: Re: Preventing unbounded file growth
> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Date: Friday, April 16, 2010, 3:49 PM
> 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).
> > 
> > Personally, I like having all the history, but that's
> me :)
> > 
> > - James Duerr
> > 
> > E-mail: FireFlys_98 at yahoo.com
> > ---------------------
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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.
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