Here in the US there is an incentive to remove records older than 7
years (in many cases 5 years). Some odd IRS regulation that they can go
back further if the information is available. So, if all the older
records are "missing" ...
On 12/17/25 22:05, R Losey wrote:
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
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