Yes, you can close the book and it will zero out income and expense accounts, but it does not remove any transactions and it will not reduce the size of the file. In fact, since it creates entries in all the expense and income accounts, the file will actually be larger.
Thank You, Gyle McCollam Gyle McCollam 609.680.2326 Mobile [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> email ________________________________ From: gnucash-user <[email protected]> on behalf of D. via gnucash-user <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2021 12:44 PM To: Glenn Fowler <[email protected]> Cc: Marc Lacroix <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [GNC] How to remove oldest transactions One might also read the wiki page on closing books at https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Closing_Books (Splitting a file at some point in time is essentially closing the books at that point). -------- Original Message -------- From: Glenn Fowler <[email protected]> Sent: Sat Dec 18 11:49:47 EST 2021 To: Marc Lacroix <[email protected]> Cc: GnuCash users group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [GNC] How to remove oldest transactions Please vote for that here: https://gnucash.uservoice.com/forums/101223-feature-request/suggestions/1973589-select-several-items-at-once-in-any-list On Sat, Dec 18, 2021 at 11:24 AM Marc Lacroix via gnucash-user < [email protected]> wrote: > I am using gnucash for many years, and the database is becoming huge. > > Is it possible to remove the oldest transaction? > > How? > > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > _______________________________________________ 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. _______________________________________________ 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. _______________________________________________ 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.
