Noted. You do what works well for you. I keep it all in one file because GnuCash is designed to work like that -- per your own admission, it is a bit "niggly" to start afresh each year. I assume you need to go into each account and adjust the opening balance?
On Thu, Dec 18, 2025 at 2:39 AM Chris Green <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 18, 2025 at 12:05:50AM -0600, 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. > > > Yes, but why keep it all in one file? Much easier **conceptually** > (for me anyway) to keep each year in a separate GnuCash database. > > It also means that you can go to the files/database for a particular > year and, without having to change dates or anything, you can look at > that year's figures. > > -- > Chris Green > _______________________________________________ > 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.
