Closing books (was Re: Has anyone installed the GnucashEditor (view & edit GnuCash Files)?

[Andrew Sullivan]

On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 08:32:22AM -0500, David G. Hamblen wrote:
> The Close books function (at least in GC 2.4.7) creates a set of
> reversing entries with a name (eg "Closing Entry - 2010") and date
> (eg 12/31/10) of your choosing. It doesn't delete anything. 

Right, and that's what Ian K. was suggesting people did _not_ want.
What they apparently want is a way to trim old data prior to a certain
date, because that eliminates old data that then does not need to be
stored, loaded, and so on.

I suspect that a database back ends would be a better way to achieve
this, actually, but I get the desire.

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