[GNC] Archive part of my data

[David Carlson]

As another user that has been using GnuCash for many years, I can comment
that no, Gnucash does not have an easy way to split off a segment of
history.  This has been discussed often on this mail-list, and there have
occasionally been suggestions regarding ways to accomplish an approximation
to that by various brute force methods.  One caveat to to using strictly
date oriented methods is that some information such as securities have
history going back possibly years that needs to be retained for tax
purposes.

There has also been discussion in another thread here regarding the
relative merits of the database file formats, check that thread for
details.  In summary, opening the file takes about the same amount of time
as the XML format, but there ar no intermediate pauses to write a backup
file.  Also, there are still some bugs unique to database formats that are
deal-breakers for some users.

David Carlson
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David Carlson