sql version

[David T.]

Oh yeah! Now I remember! 

That's what screwed up the cost basis on my stock and mutual fund accounts. I split my Quicken data file (at Intuit's recommendation), and now the cost basis on all those older accounts is screwed up.

Personally, I'd rather have the data there, and a robust reporting system that can allow me to quickly and easily generate all the snapshots I need. I sure wish I hadn't split the files back in the day.

Frankly, if you think about it, creating a report that covers the time period in question *is* moving the slider. And while it certainly is a little more difficult in Gnucash than simply moving a slider, it can be done.

Cheers,
David

--- On Fri, 12/24/10, Anthony Dardis <adardis at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Anthony Dardis <adardis at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: sql version
> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org, "Michelle Knight" <michelle at msknight.com>
> Date: Friday, December 24, 2010, 11:03 AM
> 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.
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