I think that John Ogden has a valid question which should be covered better somewhere in the manual.
The short answer, unfortunately, is that there is no way to split out old data to shrink the data file. Also, it is a fact that eventually your file may grow to the point where it taxes your computers' resources in one way or another, possibly hogging RAM or loading and saving slooooowly. It is not easy to design a routine to split a file because there are many cases of reports that would fail to give accurate results for some users if old data was removed. The most obvious would be capital gains for sales of stocks, but there are probably other things that could break. Various other users have found ways to work around this shortcoming for their individual use. It would be nice to hear from some of them and to include them in the help literature as well. My solution so far has been to buy a more powerful computer and use Ethernet instead of WiFi to attach to the data file. Yes, a file save through WiFi takes well over a minute for my data file which is now over 6MB compressed. David C On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 5:05 AM, Colin Law <clan...@gmail.com> wrote: > What do you mean by 'quite large'? I have 15 years of (personal) data > in mine and would not split it unless force to. It is great to be able > to so easily look back to see when and where I bought the dishwasher > (or whatever) and how much it cost. Mine is1.9 MBytes (compressed > xml). > > Colin > > On 14 June 2017 at 10:45, JOHN OGDEN <john.ogd...@btopenworld.com> wrote: > > I have been using GnuCash for over four years, and the file is becoming > quite large.I have searched the documentation but have failed to find any > instructions for separating the GnuCash accounts file (for all accounts) so > that I end up with two files, one for 'old' transactions and one for 'new' > transactions. I assume this to be a standard 'end-of-accounting-period' > action: where do I find it documented? John > > Revd Dr John Ogden 0118 969 6319 07746 621447 > > _______________________________________________ > > gnucash-user mailing list > > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > > ----- > > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.