[GNC] Max number of Accounts

[sunfish62 at yahoo.com]

Since everything use GUIDs behind the scenes, I believe that Stan is right. I haven't looked in a long time, but I seem to recall that my CoA had a few hundred accounts many years ago. And my data file is about 6mb compressed, going to 60mb uncompressed. I think our German users may have more to say; my recollection is that they use accounts much more aggressively than Americans do...

⁣David T. ​

On Dec 5, 2025, 10:52 PM, at 10:52 PM, "Stan Brown (using GC 4.14)" <stan+gc at fastmail.fm> wrote:
>On 2025-12-05 09:07, Christopher Treen wrote:
>> 
>> But my question is a simple one: Is there a MAXIMUM number of
>Accounts,
>> or file size? I currently have 53 parts with one Account per Part
>Number
>> to track stock levels. This WILL grow with time.
>> 
>> Thanks in advance, Chris
>
>Hi, Chris!  Welcome to GnuCash!
>
>There's no fixed maximum file size. Various people have mentioned sizes
>of several megabytes, with no noticeable degradation in performance.
>(My
>main data file is about 1.3 MB and includes all transactions since
>2017-12-31, about 11,000 of them.)
>
>I'll let someone speak to maximum number of accounts, but I'd lay long
>odds there is none. (The chart of accounts is stored in the same data
>file as the transactions, so there's no reason I can think of why it
>would need a fixed size limit.)
>
>Stan Brown
>Tehachapi, CA, USA
>https://BrownMath.com
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