[GNC] Revising an old Gnucash file

[Phyllis Bruce]

Tom, I only have personal accounts and have several download options at most of them.

Your idea of keeping a copy 0 safe and editing copy 1 seems reasonable but with 15 years of data do you have an effective way to get rid of unwanted transactions?  How many years do you want to reformat and why?  I’m asking because I often get ideas about what I’d like to do  before thinking through the ramifications.  Just spent several hundred $$$ trying to save my unstable Money database.  Finally found a good backup that only lost 2021.  I’ll keep that one for legacy and move forward with GnuCash.

Best of luck to you!
Po

> On Jul 19, 2022, at 4:41 PM, Tom Browder <tom.browder at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2022 at 15:52 Phyllis Bruce <pobruce46 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Tom, best wishes!  I had to abandon Microsoft Money after 30 years.  I suggest you do as I did, even though you've been using GC.
> 
> Thanks, Po. I'm too lazy to start over again, but I'm sure your method
> is probably the best (and maybe less work in the long run!).  One
> problem is that I don't think my banks support either QIF or OFX for
> personal accounts, but I'll check it out.
> 
> I may also change my mind a bit and do a combo: (1) save a copy of the
> existing file, (2) delete obsolete accounts, and (3) reorg/update the
> leftover accounts.
> 
> -Tom
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