Re: Gnucash file is getting long!

On 2017-06-17 12:04, John Ralls wrote: > >> On Jun 17, 2017, at 10:22 AM, AC > > wrote: >> >> On 2017-06-17 00:07, Colin Law wrote: >>> On 17 June 2017 at 02:31, AC >> > wrote: On 2017-06-16

Re: Gnucash file is getting long!

Adam Funk writes: >> Not necessarily. The "default" backend would be SQLite, which is a DB >> that stores into a single file. So it will act like the current XML >> backend in terms of storage, but not necessarily the same with backup >> files. However no server is

Re: Gnucash file is getting long!

On 14 June 2017 at 12:33, David Carlson wrote: > ... > 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

Re: Gnucash file is getting long!

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

Re: Gnucash file is getting long!

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

Gnucash file is getting long!

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