[GNC] Removing old transactions

Chris Green cl at isbd.net
Thu Dec 18 03:39:04 EST 2025


On Thu, Dec 18, 2025 at 12:05:50AM -0600, R Losey wrote:
> 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.
> 
Yes, but why keep it all in one file?  Much easier **conceptually**
(for me anyway) to keep each year in a separate GnuCash database. 

It also means that you can go to the files/database for a particular
year and, without having to change dates or anything, you can look at
that year's figures.

-- 
Chris Green


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