[GNC] GNUcash is using 538MB

[Murugan Muruganandam]

I understand that the space you are mentioning is the directory and not the individual file. if so, at times the 30 days delete is not going through, you can look at your file directly and safely remove the older files to reduce the size



Saludos Cordiales


Murugan

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From: gnucash-user <gnucash-user-bounces+m.muruganandam=hotmail.com at gnucash.org> on behalf of Ed Love <ed65love at gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2022 9:12 AM
To: David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
Cc: Gnucash Users <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Subject: Re: [GNC] GNUcash is using 538MB

Great questions, thanks! I've got data since about 2010, for just me.

No securities at all, average transaction description maybe 15
characters, and I have no idea how to compress XML.

I've checked settings, and it says I'm compressing files, and backing up
data for 30 days.

What else do I need to check? Maybe there's a section in the doco on
keeping disk space down?

I looked, but didn't find it. I'm hoping there's a simple setting or two
that will help.

Thanks again!

     Ed

On 15 Dec 2022 7:58 pm, David Carlson wrote:
> Maybe you have a lot of security price history.  Maybe you are not
> storing your data in compressed XML form. Maybe you just give every
> transaction a lengthy description.  Maybe you have thirty years of
> history  in your file.
>
> I can go on.....
>
> On Thu, Dec 15, 2022, 5:28 AM Ed <ed65love at gmail.com
> <mailto:ed65love at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     How can this be?! I'm using version 4.11 under w10.
>
>     This seems WAY over the top to me, hard to believe.
>
>     I'm only recording my own expenses, nothing fancy!
>
>     How can I reduce this space usage. I've searched for answers, but
>     found
>     nothing.
>
>     Thanks in advance!
>
>          Ed
>
>     p.s. apart from that, it's a great program :)
>
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