[GNC] GnuCash performance issue on larger accounts

[R Losey]

You don't need to archive data -- I have been using GnuCash for 9 years and
have not cleared out old transactions. Others in this list have even more
data.

As John pointed out, there was a bug in the Windows version that was making
it sluggish. I used the latest stable build from the end of October, and
the problem went away.

On Tue, Nov 4, 2025 at 10:49 PM Haowen Liu <liu.haowen.andy at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi all!
>
> I'm using GnuCash to manage my personal finance and I use one file per
> year. Towards the end of the year, the most active account currently
> have 950 transactions over the past year and GnuCash is visibly
> struggling when I input transactions there. Is this to be expected?
> Should I break up files more, e.g. biannually?
>
> I'm on Windows 11 and GnuCash 5.13. The file is stored as sqlite. I also
> added the directory where I store the GnuCash sqlite file to antivirus
> exception list just in case something is scanning it more often than
> needed.
>
> Haowen
>
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