I haven't archived my data since I imported all data from Quicken from early nineties when I moved over to GNC in 2017. All transactions is in a single XML file. My compressed data file is just slightly bigger than 4.1MB and I don’t see any performance issues. I am also on Windows 11 but running latest 4 series of GNC.
-----Original Message----- From: Doug <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2025 3:32 PM To: R Losey <[email protected]> Cc: Haowen Liu <[email protected]>; [email protected] Subject: Re: [GNC] GnuCash performance issue on larger accounts My files go back 20+ years, & the file is 3.1M, but I do not run a complicated business. btw, thanks to all the developers! I am an old, old user (now retired). On Wed, 5 Nov 2025 12:08:10 -0600 R Losey <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. _______________________________________________ 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.
