Re: [GNC] How to remove oldest transactions

2021-12-18 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/18/2021 3:16 PM, D. wrote: Thank you Michael for stepping in. You've summarized the process to which I was alluding. I'll note that deleting old transactions using a keyboard shortcut is going to throw the balances off for every account that the deleted transactions touched, so you'll e

Re: [GNC] How to remove oldest transactions

2021-12-18 Thread D. via gnucash-user
recting balance transactions all over the place anyhow. Original Message From: Michael or Penny Novack Sent: Sat Dec 18 15:03:37 EST 2021 To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: Re: [GNC] How to remove oldest transactions On 12/18/2021 1:40 PM, Gyle McCollam wrote: > Yes,

Re: [GNC] How to remove oldest transactions

2021-12-18 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/18/2021 1:40 PM, Gyle McCollam wrote: Yes, you can close the book and it will zero out income and expense accounts, but it does not remove any transactions and it will not reduce the size of the file. In fact, since it creates entries in all the expense and income accounts, the file wil

Re: [GNC] How to remove oldest transactions

2021-12-18 Thread Glenn Fowler
Thank you Ken, adding a key combination in accelerator-map works as expected and deletes about 2 a second. I think this would be the best option at the moment until there is a multi-select option as starting a new book would require opening the archived one for transaction history and is less conve

Re: [GNC] How to remove oldest transactions

2021-12-18 Thread Gyle McCollam
acroix ; gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: Re: [GNC] How to remove oldest transactions One might also read the wiki page on closing books at https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Closing_Books (Splitting a file at some point in time is essentially closing the books at that point). Original M

Re: [GNC] How to remove oldest transactions

2021-12-18 Thread D. via gnucash-user
Cc: GnuCash users group Subject: Re: [GNC] How to remove oldest transactions Please vote for that here: https://gnucash.uservoice.com/forums/101223-feature-request/suggestions/1973589-select-several-items-at-once-in-any-list On Sat, Dec 18, 2021 at 11:24 AM Marc Lacroix via gnucash-user

Re: [GNC] How to remove oldest transactions

2021-12-18 Thread Glenn Fowler
Please vote for that here: https://gnucash.uservoice.com/forums/101223-feature-request/suggestions/1973589-select-several-items-at-once-in-any-list On Sat, Dec 18, 2021 at 11:24 AM Marc Lacroix via gnucash-user < gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > I am using gnucash for many years, and the datab

Re: [GNC] How to remove oldest transactions

2021-12-18 Thread pyz01
nd all transaction from a particular start date to now. Ken -Original Message- From: gnucash-user On Behalf Of Marc Lacroix via gnucash-user Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2021 8:24 AM To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: [GNC] How to remove oldest transactions I am using gnucash for many y

[GNC] How to remove oldest transactions

2021-12-18 Thread Marc Lacroix via gnucash-user
I am using gnucash for many years, and the database is becoming huge. Is it possible to remove the oldest transaction? How? ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists