[GNC] Removing old transactions

[R Losey]

Noted. You do what works well for you.

I keep it all in one file because GnuCash is designed to work like that --
per your own admission, it is a bit "niggly" to start afresh each year. I
assume you need to go into each account and adjust the opening balance?

On Thu, Dec 18, 2025 at 2:39 AM Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:

> 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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