[GNC] Archiving transactions

[M. Rizwan Muzzammil]

Thanks for your reply.

I don't usually keep reports open so I do not believe it is a reason. Also
I recall on an occasion where a report tab, that was kept open, took time
to reload on activating the tab. So i assume that time was saved on
opening. Will check later today.

Slowness is perhaps due to transaction volume. I don't have an exact count
but I guess it is near to the 500,000 mark.

I was mainly searching for an automatic method to truncate. If there is
none I guess I will have to do it manually as you suggest.


On Sun, Nov 17, 2019, 5:17 AM David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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