Since everything use GUIDs behind the scenes, I believe that Stan is right. I haven't looked in a long time, but I seem to recall that my CoA had a few hundred accounts many years ago. And my data file is about 6mb compressed, going to 60mb uncompressed. I think our German users may have more to say; my recollection is that they use accounts much more aggressively than Americans do...
David T. On Dec 5, 2025, 10:52 PM, at 10:52 PM, "Stan Brown (using GC 4.14)" <[email protected]> wrote: >On 2025-12-05 09:07, Christopher Treen wrote: >> >> But my question is a simple one: Is there a MAXIMUM number of >Accounts, >> or file size? I currently have 53 parts with one Account per Part >Number >> to track stock levels. This WILL grow with time. >> >> Thanks in advance, Chris > >Hi, Chris! Welcome to GnuCash! > >There's no fixed maximum file size. Various people have mentioned sizes >of several megabytes, with no noticeable degradation in performance. >(My >main data file is about 1.3 MB and includes all transactions since >2017-12-31, about 11,000 of them.) > >I'll let someone speak to maximum number of accounts, but I'd lay long >odds there is none. (The chart of accounts is stored in the same data >file as the transactions, so there's no reason I can think of why it >would need a fixed size limit.) > >Stan Brown >Tehachapi, CA, USA >https://BrownMath.com >_______________________________________________ >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.
