
Worked, GnuCash still doesn't support concurrent access to the accountingĭata, wiping out what would otherwise be one of the big advantages of Overall, the database back-end mechanism feels too unstable to trust in a That version proved crash-prone in general. Version of GnuCash crashed when asked to read an SQLite file. Noticeable improvement in startup or save speed. Worked, at the cost of expanding the storage used to 17MB and with no Attempts to use thisįeature with PostgreSQL proved fruitless saving a file to aĭatabase yielded the helpful information that the server "experienced anĮrror or encountered bad or corrupt data". Relational database manager rather than an XML file. GnuCash has had, for some years, the ability to store its data in a Starting GnuCash with that file takes aboutĢ0 seconds on a reasonably modern laptop.

Was a 1.8MB XML file containing the company's accounting data since theīeginning of 2016. That is not a straightforward task, but it can be done see this article for the gory details. The first order of business is importing existing data into the system. Those business features solid enough to allow the program to serve as a GnuCash has beenĪround for many years and is known primarily as a personal-finance tool,īut it has acquired some business features as well. QuickBooks is a familiar waypoint: the GnuCash application.

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