[GNC] Max number of Accounts

[Cam Ellison]

On 2025-12-05 09:36, sunfish62--- via gnucash-user wrote:
> 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

The maximum GUID for an account is 32 hex characters. That's a very big 
number, and you're not going to reach it in your lifetime.

Nothing to worry about.

Cheers

Cam