[GNC] Easy way to delete old transactions

[Fred Tydeman]

I have been keeping the books for three separate related entities in the
same file.
I have decided it would be better to have each entity in its own file.
So, one idea is to copy the large file 3 times, to three different names.
Then delete the accounts and transactions of 2 entities, keeping the third.
Do that three times so each file ends up with just the data for one entity.
I have around 1915 accounts, so that might be too much work.

I believe I first tried: Export Transactions to CSV (for a subset of
accounts),
then Import Transactions from CSV
but I got lots of errors about missing items (perhaps securities).
(could be I did that wrong).

I am open to suggestions.


On Sat, May 6, 2023 at 12:43 PM Glenn Fowler <gfowler1 at outlook.com> wrote:

> You can bulk delete but know your records will be off like Gyle mentioned:
>
> https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2021-December/098934.html
>
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> On Sat, May 6, 2023, 4:40 AM Gyle McCollam <gmccollam at live.com> wrote:
>
>> You can't do that,  it will screw up your records.  The only thing you
>> can do is start a new set of books with the initial balances being the
>> current book's balances.
>>
>>
>>
>> Sent from Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
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>>
>>
>> -------- Original message --------
>> From: Fred Tydeman <tydeman.fred at gmail.com>
>> Date: 5/6/23 3:07 AM (GMT-05:00)
>> To: Gnucash Users <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
>> Subject: [GNC] Easy way to delete old transactions
>>
>> Is there an easy way to delete all transactions in all accounts before a
>> certain date?
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