You don't need to archive data -- I have been using GnuCash for 9 years and have not cleared out old transactions. Others in this list have even more data.
As John pointed out, there was a bug in the Windows version that was making it sluggish. I used the latest stable build from the end of October, and the problem went away. On Tue, Nov 4, 2025 at 10:49 PM Haowen Liu <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all! > > I'm using GnuCash to manage my personal finance and I use one file per > year. Towards the end of the year, the most active account currently > have 950 transactions over the past year and GnuCash is visibly > struggling when I input transactions there. Is this to be expected? > Should I break up files more, e.g. biannually? > > I'm on Windows 11 and GnuCash 5.13. The file is stored as sqlite. I also > added the directory where I store the GnuCash sqlite file to antivirus > exception list just in case something is scanning it more often than > needed. > > Haowen > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > -- _________________________________ Richard Losey [email protected] Micah 6:8 _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
