Reducing File Size

Doug Pastorello spiderdad10 at comcast.net
Sun Jan 2 11:43:20 EST 2011


Mike,
I have a script that I use to remove old transactions/splits from the
Gnucash file. This will reduce the size of your database. See the
following thread;
http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2010-April/034407.html

	--Doug.

On Sun, 2011-01-02 at 10:29 -0600, Mike C. wrote:
> I have the same problem that several others have mentioned.  Since I
> converted over 15 years of Quicken data the Gnucash file is now 1845 KB
> after compression and takes a long time to load or to generate reports. 
> I would like to eliminate old data that is no longer needed without
> affecting the current account totals. 
> It seems like I can delete asset accounts that have a zero balance
> without causing a problem.  I have lots of accounts that are stock or
> bond purchases that have long since been sold.  Is there a problem with
> this action to reduce the data file size?
> The other accounts I would like to delete are the income accounts
> (dividend/interest/capital gains) associated with these stocks and
> bonds.  I know I can delete the accounts and move them to Total Income
> but that doesn't reduce the data.  Also doing a close books doesn't
> reduce the data detail.  I would like to eliminate the detail without
> affecting the total assets on the balance sheet.  Does anyone know of a
> way of accomplishing this?
> Thanks,
> Mike
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