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[Anthony Dardis]

That would be slick!

I use the Opera browser's embedded mail program, and that's a constant  
question: even though you *can* have 10 years of mail in the database, and  
you might really want it all, it would be nice to have less. The best  
archive suggestion I ever saw over there was pretty much the one Quicken  
uses (used?): it makes a copy of your state at the backup time, then  
closes out (deletes transactions older than a given date, sets starting  
balances, etc.). So "moving an archive time line" is a matter of opening  
an old file, which will have no effect on the current file. Looks like  
Quicken really ought to implement this suggestion too!


On Fri, 24 Dec 2010 13:48:40 -0500, Michelle Knight  
<michelle at msknight.com> wrote:

> I do find myself wishing that I could do as I do with some e-mail systems
> ...move an archive time line ... so that if I needed to adjust something  
> a
> couple of years ago, I can move the archive line back to that time  
> period,
> make the change, let everything re-calculate itself and then move the  
> archive
> line back forward again so there are only a certain number of items to  
> handle.