Still unable to split off the old years transaction from the gnucash file using jGnucashEditor-bin-2.0.26

[Vivek Agrawal]

Colin, Yes you are right at that point.
But the point I am making here, is that what is the benefit of loading the
file of larger size when you do not require the content of whole at the
same point of time. The optimal way is to load only that part which
requires changes. This part can be selected by user.
In another way, we can think it as, some organizations generally keep the
last 1 or 5 or 10 financial year transactions (depending on their business
requirement). The previous transactions (i.e. before 1 or 5 or 10 years)
are saved in archived. This also enables them to keep the earlier records
safe and untouchable. Also, if required those files can be opened
separately to make sure those transactions are still accessible. So, I was
thinking if this could be implemented in some way in GnuCash also.


Regards,
Vivek Agrawal



On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On 26 April 2012 05:29, Vivek Agrawal <vickymnit at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Thanks for the reply.
> > So do we have similar option in GNUcash only i.e. functionality of
> > splitting off the old years transactions from the gnucash file?
> > I'm asking this because the file is growing in size and I have to keep
> the
> > whole file while the old transactions are irrelevant for me.
>
> Usually this is not an issue as over the years the power of your PC
> will increase much quicker than the size of the file.
> For example in the years that I have been using gnucash the file has
> grown to a couple of Megabytes whilst my hard disk has grown from 10GB
> to 400GB and my PC has quadrupled in speed.
>
> Colin L.
>