[GNC] Removing old transactions

[R Losey]

I, too, wonder why one would want to delete some years; I have 9 years of
GnuCash data and my save file is 2.8M -- in these days of terabyte drives,
that's pretty insignificant.

On Wed, Dec 17, 2025 at 6:12 PM Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) <
stan+gc at fastmail.fm> wrote:

> On 2025-12-17 12:16, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
> > That is doable, but for the amount of effort required, is there some
> > overriding *need* to do so? (I have over a decade of transactions and
> > GnuCash does not care)
>
> Indeed, I wondered about that too. The file is compressed, so deleting
> 40% of it is unlikely to save anywhere close to a megabyte. And GC is
> peppy at opening and saving, so the shortened file is unlikely to open
> or save noticeably faster.
>
> An argument against doing the deletions is the need to create manual
> transactions for opening balances of assets, liabilities, and equities,
> as you noted. (I'm assuming the questioner's income and expenses have
> zero balances at the beginning of a year.)
>
> Stan Brown
> Tehachapi, CA, USA
> https://BrownMath.com
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