Slowness to open and to save and close, and even to commit any transaction edit has been a known problem for some time now. Releases after about 3.4 or so are supposed to be much improved, but there may still be slowness if there are a lot of account tabs to open or reports to recreate. There was also an issue if the account windows were rather large, if I recall correctly. GnuCash may still seem slow in release 3.7, but I have not tried it personally yet, so I have no personal experience.
That said, it is possible to truncate history out of a file, but the process is not automated and requires a combination of opening a new file with the same account structure then manually setting all the opening balances and importing the data that you want to keep from exports from the old file. If you only have a few thousand transactions it is easier to fine tune your work method to minimize the lags. On Sat, Nov 16, 2019 at 12:14 PM M. Rizwan Muzzammil <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > New user of GNU cash here. > > My accounts have a large number of transactions in them. > > This seems to slow the program down, and it take a minute or so to open it > each time. > > Would there be a way to archive older previous year transactions so that > the program runs faster? > > Thanks very much in advance for any help. > > Rizwan > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] > 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. > -- David Carlson _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] 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.
