[GNC] Removing old transactions

[Chris Green]

On Thu, Dec 18, 2025 at 05:33:41PM -0800, Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2025 at 2:39 AM Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Have you tried it?  I did just now, with a GC file that contained
> nothing later than 2017, and Balance Sheet, Cash Flow, and Profit and
> Loss all default to the current years. So if you're talking about
> "look[ing] at that year's figures" in reports, you'll still have to
> "change dates".
> 
> I'm in 4.14, so it's possible that report defaults are different in 5.x,
> but I'd be surprised.
> 
However once you have set a particular set of files (or one database
file) such that you see the whole year it stays that way because it's
spearate from all the other years.

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Chris Green