Thanks, but I meant that while I am entering later months, I don't want to be able to alter earlier months. Such an alteration happened once, in September 2012 while I was (I thought) entering November 2012, and it's only when the 30 November 2012 balance sheet didn't match my source database that I discovered it.
-- Stan Brown the_stan_br...@fastmail.fm http://BrownMath.com http://OakRoadSystems.com/ On Fri, Mar 23, 2018, at 2:47 PM, Mike or Penny Novack wrote: > Am I correct, you want to be able to look at your historical data but > not alter it? That's easy. After you have gotten the historical file to > your satisfaction, make a copy of the file to ROM (burn it to a DVD, > etc.) and delete the one in read/write memory. Now in the future, when > you want to look at your historical books, insert that DVD, open > gnucash, and tell gnucash to open the file (on the DVD) _______________________________________________ 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.