[GNC] Help breaking up a file

[David Carlson]

Eric,

GnuCash is known to be slow to open, but there are some tricks to make it
faster.  One is to just leave it open until you close down your computer.
Another is to close all reports before closing GnuCash.  I think keeping
the file on  a local SSD would help, tho I cannot verify by personal
experience.  Lastly, when release 3.3 or so comes out, it should finally be
getting back some of the speed that it has lost in recent years.

Hopefully, it will also get back some of the speed in saves, too as they
are also painfully slow.

David C

On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 12:23 AM Eric Jensen <ericj79 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I apparently looked at the file size wrong. It is actually only 1.38 MB.
> That is compressed. It does take about 23 seconds to open the file though
> from a local drive. I am also using gnucash 2.6.19
> I agree that it is nice to have all the historical data available. But I
> don't like waiting so long for it to open every time. And I don't find
> myself looking up things older than 3 year very often
>
> On Mon, Aug 27, 2018, 5:00 AM Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Wow, that is a lot of personal data, mine goes back to 2001 and is
> > only 2MB.  Is that the default file type (XML) and have you specified
> > Compress files in Preferences > General?
> >
> > In my opinion it is best to keep all the data in one file, then you
> > have immediate access to all the history.  So far for me the PC power
> > has kept pace with the file size so I have not noticed much difference
> > over the years.  On Ubuntu mine takes 7 seconds to load the program
> > and another 13 to load the user data.  That is fetching the data over
> > my local network from a Pi file server so would likely be much quicker
> > if the file was on the PC.  I am using 2.6.19
> >
> > What operating system are you using and what do you mean by 'noticeably
> > slow'?
> >
> > Colin
> > On Mon, 27 Aug 2018 at 09:39, Eric Jensen <ericj79 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > I have been using gnucash to track my personal finances since 2011. I
> > have just
> > > continued using the same file over the years. At this point it is over
> > 45MB and
> > > it is noticeably slow when opening it. I realize now that I should
> > probably use
> > > a new file for each year. Is there any way for me to break up my
> current
> > file
> > > into yearly chunks? I tried exporting all transactions for a year in
> CSV
> > format
> > > and then importing them into a new file that I had created exporting
> the
> > > accounts, but that seemed to have a lot of errors. Does anyone have a
> > simple way
> > > to accomplish this?
> > > ----
> > > Thanks,
> > > Eric
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