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
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,
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
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
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
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
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
Marc --
First decide if you want to keep the old transactions in an archive file.
If yes, then you will have 2 files, one of the archived transactions and one
with the latest transactions. If you decide you do not want the old
transactions, then you can just delete the old ones from your current
