I apparently looked at the file size wrong. It is actually only 1.38 MB. That is compressed. It does take about 23 seconds to open the file though from a local drive. I am also using gnucash 2.6.19 I agree that it is nice to have all the historical data available. But I don't like waiting so long for it to open every time. And I don't find myself looking up things older than 3 year very often
On Mon, Aug 27, 2018, 5:00 AM Colin Law <clan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Wow, that is a lot of personal data, mine goes back to 2001 and is > only 2MB. Is that the default file type (XML) and have you specified > Compress files in Preferences > General? > > In my opinion it is best to keep all the data in one file, then you > have immediate access to all the history. So far for me the PC power > has kept pace with the file size so I have not noticed much difference > over the years. On Ubuntu mine takes 7 seconds to load the program > and another 13 to load the user data. That is fetching the data over > my local network from a Pi file server so would likely be much quicker > if the file was on the PC. I am using 2.6.19 > > What operating system are you using and what do you mean by 'noticeably > slow'? > > Colin > On Mon, 27 Aug 2018 at 09:39, Eric Jensen <eric...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I have been using gnucash to track my personal finances since 2011. I > have just > > continued using the same file over the years. At this point it is over > 45MB and > > it is noticeably slow when opening it. I realize now that I should > probably use > > a new file for each year. Is there any way for me to break up my current > file > > into yearly chunks? I tried exporting all transactions for a year in CSV > format > > and then importing them into a new file that I had created exporting the > > accounts, but that seemed to have a lot of errors. Does anyone have a > simple way > > to accomplish this? > > ---- > > Thanks, > > Eric > > _______________________________________________ > > gnucash-user mailing list > > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > > ----- > > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > -- Thanks, Eric _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
