Hello,

I am a new user of Skrooge; actually I am still testing it. I come from GNUCash and I always thought that there the file size was too big: my data (for over the last 8 years) made a file of more than 20M.

But when I've imported all the info into Skrooge, I've gotten a file of ... 91M !!!!!

Is it normal? can Skrooge deal with such a big file really? Will it make the software work too slow? Is there any easy way to archive the old data so the use could be faster?

Thanks a lot in advance.
Jesus M

JesusM wrote:Hello,

I am a new user of Skrooge; actually I am still testing it. I come from GNUCash and I always thought that there the file size was too big: my data (for over the last 8 years) made a file of more than 20M.

But when I've imported all the info into Skrooge, I've gotten a file of ... 91M !!!!!
Is it normal?

Yes this is normal because Skrooge is able to do undo/redo.
So, all this history is stored in the document.
You can reduce the size by removing the history. (See "Clean history" function).

JesusM wrote:can Skrooge deal with such a big file really?

Yes. Skrooge is based on a sqlite database.
91M is not so big for a database.

JesusM wrote:Will it make the software work too slow?

No. Do you have performance issue?

JesusM wrote:Is there any easy way to archive the old data so the use could be faster?

Sorry, I don't understand this question.

JesusM wrote:Thanks a lot in advance.
Jesus M

smankowski wrote:Yes this is normal because Skrooge is able to do undo/redo.
So, all this history is stored in the document.
You can reduce the size by removing the history. (See "Clean history" function).

JesusM wrote:can Skrooge deal with such a big file really?

Yes. Skrooge is based on a sqlite database.
91M is not so big for a database.

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No. Do you have performance issue?

Not yet, but as I said, I am just testing by now.

smankowski wrote:

JesusM wrote:Is there any easy way to archive the old data so the use could be faster?

Sorry, I don't understand this question.

Saving old data, i.e. previous years, on separate files, so the actual data Skrooge has to deal with is the current one.

But if you say that it can use big files, and that 91M is not a *big* file indeed, I thing that won't be any problem.

Thanks again