[Kmymoney] Archive or delete?

[Andy Chung]

moreover afaik, to close the account one does not need to remove the
transactions.  as long as the balance is zero, one could close the account.

2015-05-25 23:28 GMT+08:00 Andy Chung <andy.chung at alumni.cuhk.net>:

> 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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cheers,

Andy
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