Reducing File Size

[Mike C.]

Thanks for your response to my issue but I am afraid I don't understand
how to use it.  I don't speak Linux.  I downloaded your attachment that
is called attachment.bin, not gcCull.pl.  Now I don't know what to do
with it to install in in Perl and then how do I run it?  I am not
familiar with gunzip as it is a Linux zip program.  I have a Windows zip
function but I am not sure why the data file needs to be zipped.
Does your script zero all the income and expense accounts and put the
new in equity and leave the stock and mutual fund asset accounts without
change?  It would be great if that is the case.  Then I could delete the
unneeded stock asset accounts.
Hope you can help this Linus illiterate **Windows user.
Mike

On 1/2/2011 10:43 AM, Doug Pastorello wrote:
> 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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