Year's end, file size an issue?

[Fred Bone]

On 27 January 2010 at 13:01, David T. said:

> Frankly, from my own experience, closing the books for my personal
> purposes is only very marginally useful. 
> 
> Using the included close books feature creates a couple of transactions
> that zeroes out the income and expense accounts. Unfortunately, you then
> have to avoid those records whenever you run any reports, and this is a
> hassle that never goes away.

OK, but not exactly difficult. Just open Equity:YearEnd:2009, re-date the 
(two) transactions to 2010, run the report, and either re-date them back 
again or just re-open the file without saving.