Re: [GNC] Archive part of my data

2019-03-14 Thread David T. via gnucash-user
A quick search online yielded:https://github.com/fefe982/gnucash-XML-split I can't vouch for the reliability of the program.  David On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 2:54, Michael or Penny Novack wrote: On 3/14/2019 2:46 PM, Jonathan Heard wrote: > Good Morning, > > I have been using GnuCash for a

Re: [GNC] Archive part of my data

2019-03-14 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I use Sqlite (on MacOS) and the loading is the same. But the normal operations are quicker because there is no periodic save. (writes are instant) The biggest change in loading time I’ve found isn’t the file size, it is how many tabs I left open the last time I closed it. If you normally run wit

Re: [GNC] Archive part of my data

2019-03-14 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 3/14/2019 2:46 PM, Jonathan Heard wrote: Good Morning, I have been using GnuCash for a long time and the file containing my records goes back 10 years. Is there a way to snip off the first 5 years and hold in a separate (Archive) file? This would speed up the loading of my system. There is

Re: [GNC] Archive part of my data

2019-03-14 Thread David Carlson
As another user that has been using GnuCash for many years, I can comment that no, Gnucash does not have an easy way to split off a segment of history. This has been discussed often on this mail-list, and there have occasionally been suggestions regarding ways to accomplish an approximation to tha

Re: [GNC] Archive part of my data

2019-03-14 Thread davelist--- via gnucash-user
I don't think there is (it would have to add adjustments to starting balances effective the starting date), but I've started wondering if using one of the database formats would work better. I have data going back to 2002 so loading and saving is starting to get pretty slow. So can anyone answe

[GNC] Archive part of my data

2019-03-14 Thread Jonathan Heard
Good Morning, I have been using GnuCash for a long time and the file containing my records goes back 10 years. Is there a way to snip off the first 5 years and hold in a separate (Archive) file? This would speed up the loading of my system. There used to be a tool in the Old MS Money program to