As another user that has been using GnuCash for many years, I can comment that no, Gnucash does not have an easy way to split off a segment of history. This has been discussed often on this mail-list, and there have occasionally been suggestions regarding ways to accomplish an approximation to that by various brute force methods. One caveat to to using strictly date oriented methods is that some information such as securities have history going back possibly years that needs to be retained for tax purposes.
There has also been discussion in another thread here regarding the relative merits of the database file formats, check that thread for details. In summary, opening the file takes about the same amount of time as the XML format, but there ar no intermediate pauses to write a backup file. Also, there are still some bugs unique to database formats that are deal-breakers for some users. David Carlson -- David Carlson _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
