I, too, wonder why one would want to delete some years; I have 9 years of GnuCash data and my save file is 2.8M -- in these days of terabyte drives, that's pretty insignificant.
On Wed, Dec 17, 2025 at 6:12 PM Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) < [email protected]> wrote: > On 2025-12-17 12:16, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > > 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) > > Indeed, I wondered about that too. The file is compressed, so deleting > 40% of it is unlikely to save anywhere close to a megabyte. And GC is > peppy at opening and saving, so the shortened file is unlikely to open > or save noticeably faster. > > An argument against doing the deletions is the need to create manual > transactions for opening balances of assets, liabilities, and equities, > as you noted. (I'm assuming the questioner's income and expenses have > zero balances at the beginning of a year.) > > 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. > -- _________________________________ 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.
