[GNC] Archiving transactions

[David Carlson]

Slowness to open and to save and close, and even to commit any transaction
edit has been a known problem for some time now.  Releases after about 3.4
or so are supposed to be much improved, but there may still be slowness if
there are a lot of account tabs to open or reports to recreate.  There was
also an issue if the account windows were rather large, if I recall
correctly.  GnuCash may still seem slow in release 3.7, but I have not
tried it personally yet, so I have no personal experience.

That said, it is possible to truncate history out of a file, but the
process is not automated and requires a combination of opening a new file
with the same account structure then manually setting all the  opening
balances and importing the data that you want to keep from exports from the
old file.

If you only have a few thousand transactions it is easier to fine tune your
work method to minimize the lags.

On Sat, Nov 16, 2019 at 12:14 PM M. Rizwan Muzzammil <m.rizwan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> New user of GNU cash here.
>
> My accounts have a large number of transactions in them.
>
> This seems to slow the program down, and it take a minute or so to open it
> each time.
>
> Would there be a way to archive older previous year transactions so that
> the program runs faster?
>
> Thanks very much in advance for any help.
>
> Rizwan
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David Carlson