Preventing unbounded file growth

[Mike C.]

It is an issue for me only because of the time it takes to load.  Up to 
45 seconds.  I have over 15 years of history imported from Quicken last 
year and the file size is 1.4M compressed.
Mike

On 4/16/2010 5:49 PM, M Prindle wrote:
> 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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