[GNC] Why I create a new datafile each year for GnuCash

[Adrien Monteleone]

Still there.

A date entry would indeed be so much more useful.

Regards,
Adrien


> On Oct 21, 2019 w43d294, at 9:01 AM, Stan Brown <the_stan_brown at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> 
> On 2019-10-21 09:40, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> James Thorpe <James at fusionsystems.co.za> writes:
>>> 
>>> a) Fear of corrupting previous year's transactions
>>> 
>>> Once my financials are done for the year and reported on, I do not
>>> wish to inadvertently enter or modify a historical transaction that
>>> will result in the same reports producing different results. It is
>>> easy in GnuCash to enter a transaction with a date for a previous
>>> financial year or, mistakenly change the date of an existing
>>> transaction without noticing it.
> 
> You can avoid that by File » Properties.
> 
> Unfortunately, you have to update that property every ... single ...
> day, because "day threshold for read-only transactions" doesn't let you
> enter a date, only a number of days offset. So if you calculate that
> today is the 294th day of the year, and set the threshold to 294 so that
> none of last year's transactions can be altered, when you open your GC
> file tomorrow it will allow alterations of Jan. 1 this year; the next
> day Jan. 1 and 2; and so on.
> 
> That rather odd design choice is in 2.6.x; I don't know whether it's in 3.x.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Stan Brown