David Carlson wrote:
"I think keeping the file on a local SSD would help, tho I cannot verify by
personal
experience."
I have two laptops, one with a spinny drive and the other with an SSD. In
2.6.19, it seems to take each of them pretty close to a minute to open program
+ data file. (The dat
Eric,
Years ago, I made a script to remove transactions from the gnucash xml
file for the purpose of reducing file size and speeding start-up. It is
kind of crude, but allows for the deletion of transactions based on a
date range. Here is a link to the posting;
https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/g
Eric,
GnuCash is known to be slow to open, but there are some tricks to make it
faster. One is to just leave it open until you close down your computer.
Another is to close all reports before closing GnuCash. I think keeping
the file on a local SSD would help, tho I cannot verify by personal
ex
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 f
On 08/27/2018 06:36 AM, David Cousens wrote:
> Eric,
>
> What version of Gnucash are you currently using and on what operating
> system?
>
> If it is 3.2, you can export the transactions using the default export
> format to a csv file and import them using the same default format. The
> format is
Eric,
What version of Gnucash are you currently using and on what operating
system?
If it is 3.2, you can export the transactions using the default export
format to a csv file and import them using the same default format. The
format is selectable in the setup assistants for both export (here j
On 8/27/2018 4:59 AM, Colin Law 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 immedi
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 fo
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
