[GNC] Removing old transactions

[Kalpesh Patel]

If you are just making use of bank and credit card accounts then it would
make sense to "reset" on yearly basis. However, if you are using trading and
assets accounts for tracking -- which has different tax treatments in states
- then they may need to be tracked until disposed of. Especially real
estate's which something span decades for calculating cost basis. Recreating
at the end of year for them IMHO is same as just keeping that data and
carrying forward.

GNC has ability to filter register so only limited dates of transactions are
displayed if that is what you want. Reports for multiple accounts can also
be limited in such fashion, and in COA you can also set Accounting Period to
narrow down the totals displayed in there as well. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> 
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2025 3:39 AM
To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: [GNC] Removing old transactions

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.

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Chris Green