I have been using GnuCash for a couple of months now and I have a couple of suggestions. First is performance related. I dumped about 12 years of Quicken data into GnuCash. The datafile is now over 10 megabytes, without the daily stock data, and it takes a long time (several minutes) for the GnuCash screen to appear, or to save and exit. I am sure the size of the data is the reason for the sluggishness. Given that history I would suggest some mechanism to trim the data. Perhaps a tool that would trim all data from selected accounts prior to some specified date. Even better trim the data dumping it into a file named <datFileName>.pre.<specifiedDate> (or something) then create some mechanism to open and read a previous file if requested.
Another way to approach this problem would be to export data from a specified date into a new file, which leads into the second recommendation. An export tool that is useful. An export tool, dare I make the comparison, like Quickens that allows selecting account(s) and dates, or possibly all accounts for a given date. Also it would be nice to export data into a format that other programs could use. You can Import data from Quicken format so it would be nice if you could export in a Quicken format as well. Personally, I think it should handle importing/exporting into Microsoft Money format as well (but that is another issue). I guess that's all -brian _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
