Bug 133364

Summary:	split and merge money files
Product:	[Applications] kmymoney	Reporter:	Oliver Grimm <logistikka>
Component:	general	Assignee:	KMyMoney Devel Mailing List <kmymoney-devel>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	ajg02, onet.cristian, ostroffjh, stst
Priority:	NOR
Version:	git (master)
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Debian testing
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=378076
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Description Oliver Grimm 2006-09-01 09:41:54 UTC

Version:           0.8.4 (using KDE KDE 3.5.4)
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages
OS:                Linux

Since I am using KMyMoney now for quite some time I got the impression that saving and loading the money file takes increasingly more time. Because of this and other reasons it would be very helpful if KMymoney would provide a simple tool for splitting and merging its money files. I propose to add an item to the file menu like "manage money file" that allows to [1] split the currently loaded file based on some date range and [2] add another kmy-file before or after the current file.

To get some more ideas what could be done for managing kmy-files have a look at what pdftk can do for PDF files.

Comment 1 Tony B 2006-09-01 11:29:25 UTC

Item 1 is on our 'todo' list, but the developer (me!) doesn't have a great deal of time available at present. Item 2, if implemented, would be restricted to merging a previously split file back into it's original.

Comment 2 Oliver Grimm 2006-09-01 12:56:13 UTC

great. For [2] I see your point that it doesn't make much sense to merge files with different institutions, payees, etc. It might be a good idea though to allow importing/exporting parts of the list of transactions into CSV or ODS, thus making it easier to split/merge the list manually.

Comment 3 Tony B 2006-09-01 17:03:19 UTC

I'm not sure what ODS is, but if you build KMM from CVS HEAD, have a RDBMS and know a bit of SQL, you can currently get some of your data indirectly into CSV format by using "Save As Database". Note, at present it may not be a good idea to use the RDB as your main storage method, since it is still experimental, and also quite slow (it just treats the RDB as a sequential file).

Comment 4 Cristian Oneț 2014-08-20 20:26:28 UTC

Moving this wish to kmymoney4.

Comment 5 Christian David 2015-02-01 20:30:05 UTC

*** Bug 185571 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Andrew Goodbody 2015-05-02 17:26:32 UTC

I have been using kmymoney for a number of years and it is now taking significant time to enter or edit transactions. I went looking for the archiving function only to find it does not exist. This is getting to be quite a problem for me.

Comment 7 Jack 2021-10-27 17:15:25 UTC

"see also" added - not quite a duplicate, but related.