[moneydance] Archiving old transactions

[kevin r. marhsall]

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 11:23:57AM -0700, William Morton wrote:
> Is there a way to split out older transactions in a Moneydance database
> into an "archive" file, to keep the file size of the current database
> from growing forever?   I'm not to the point I'm needing it yet but I
> have about 3.5 years of transactions and am wondering if there's
> a way to manage it so that only that last 2 years of data are in the
> main file.   I wouldn't want to completely lose access to the older
> data, though.....


That's one of the things i love about moneydance, i've got every financial transaction i've ever made for the past six years in there and my file is still only 1.3 megs in total.

I haven't needed it yet, even after those six years, but check out "Archive" under the "File" menu.

/KRM