Year's end, file size an issue?

[David T.]

The close books routine takes a long time to run.

--- On Fri, 1/29/10, Fred Bone <Fred.Bone at dial.pipex.com> wrote:

> From: Fred Bone <Fred.Bone at dial.pipex.com>
> Subject: Re: Year's end, file size an issue?
> To: "David T." <sunfish62 at yahoo.com>
> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Date: Friday, January 29, 2010, 8:29 AM
> On 28 January 2010 at 12:05, David T.
> said:
> 
> > Mike--
> > 
> > That is how I have solved the situation in the past.
> The main problem with
> > this (which I implied but did not outright state in my
> original reply) is
> > that there is no easy way to tell Gnucash to omit
> January first in
> > reports. You have to manually change the date each
> time. This is not
> > odious, but it is annoying. There is no "Previous Year
> Starting on January
> > 2nd" option for the date range. And yes, you can
> always save the report
> > with a January 2nd start date, but each year, you'd
> have to edit the date
> > anyway.
> > 
> > Additionally, the zeroing transactions completely
> throw off any
> > longer-term reports, which effectively eliminates the
> reason why you'd
> > keep multiple years' data in the first place--that is,
> to get longterm
> > trends on different accounts.
> 
> So why not just delete them temporarily?
> 
>