On Thu, Dec 18, 2025 at 05:33:41PM -0800, Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) wrote: > On Thu, Dec 18, 2025 at 2:39 AM Chris Green <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. > > Have you tried it? I did just now, with a GC file that contained > nothing later than 2017, and Balance Sheet, Cash Flow, and Profit and > Loss all default to the current years. So if you're talking about > "look[ing] at that year's figures" in reports, you'll still have to > "change dates". > > I'm in 4.14, so it's possible that report defaults are different in 5.x, > but I'd be surprised. > However once you have set a particular set of files (or one database file) such that you see the whole year it stays that way because it's spearate from all the other years.
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