[Kmymoney] Archive or delete?

Andy Chung andy.chung at alumni.cuhk.net
Mon May 25 15:28:05 UTC 2015


Doesn't configure Kmymoney - general - filter tab - Do not show closed
account, solve the problem?

2015-05-25 23:18 GMT+08:00 Michael Berger <idest at online.de>:

>  On 05/25/2015 04:38 PM, Footer wrote:
>
>  Greetings Users/Developers of KMyMoney,
>
>  First off, let me say that I've been using KMyMoney for nearly 10 years
> and I enjoy this program very much.  So THANK YOU to all of those involved
> in creating/maintaining this wonderful program.  I'm currently running
> KMyMoney 4.6.4 on KDE 4.13.3 (Kubuntu 14.04.2 LTS).
>
>  In all that time, I have of course, had several car loans, mortgage
> refinances, credit card accounts that have come and gone, checking/savings
> accounts that have come and gone, etc.
>
>  What I've been doing is just closing closed accounts and paid off loans
> which leaves the data in KMyMoney and draws a line through the various
> closed accounts in the Accounts --> List view (both Liability and Asset).
>
>  So my question is, how does everyone handle their closed accounts?  I
> don't mind leaving the data/accounts in KMyMoney, my data file is only
> around 700KB and it loads very fast, but I would like to clean up the views
> and get rid of some of these old accounts.  I know I have to remove all the
> transactions before I can truly delete an account, but I'm thinking I'd
> like to archive the old data to keep it around ... for posterity if nothing
> else?  :-)
>
>  I would appreciate any suggestions or thoughts on what other folks are
> doing with old closed accounts.  Sorry for the long explanation and thanks
> for reading!
>
>  Terry (extremely happy and long term KMyMoney user!)
>
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>  Terry, this is an ongoing issue. If I recall correctly there is - up to
> now - no way of having a "new start" after one, or two, or x years and
> start a new accounting year/period (or something) without loosing past
> records.
> Though, in my opinion as well, this is not satisfactory to some of us.
>
> Nevertheless, and even without that feature in question, KMM is by far the
> best I've ever come across!
> Many thanks and compliments to all developers and helpers!
>
> Michael
>
> PS: and who knows? ;-)
>
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cheers,

Andy
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