That is doable, but for the amount of effort required, is there some
overriding *need* to do so? (I have over a decade of transactions and
GnuCash does not care)
If you want to proceed, I'd recommend:
1. Make a copy of the file, rename maybe with the starting year of 2
years ago.
2. Rename the original to match with its starting year.
3. In the original file, delete everything *newer* than your cutoff date.
4. Make note of ALL balances.
5. In the copied file (your new file) delete all transactions before
your cutoff date. This could be done in the General Journal, or by doing
a Find by date and working through all of them, or in each account
separately.
6. Create new manual 'Opening Balance' transactions in any account that
had one from the original file in the new file.
7. From now on, create a new file each time you want to make this break
before entering any transactions after your cutoff. You may prefer to do
this annually if it is that critical to you, in which case, you'll want
to do the above steps several times as needed to create annual
historical files.
Regards,
Adrien
On 12/17/25 10:39 AM, Joseph Hesse wrote:
My gnucash file covers about 5 years worth of data. I want to delete
the first three years of transactions and keep the recent 2 years of
transactions. Are there any orderly ways of doing this rather than just
deleting transactions?
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