Compressed transactions are recorded in {Journal/General/DOS NewViews Import/Compressed Transactions}. A summary debit and/or credit entry is posted to each account for each month prior to the "Begin Full Detail" date, and a balancing entry is posted to GENERAL account "COMPRESSED_TRANSACTIONS".
To decompress summary transactions, mark a block of transactions and issue the Tools>Script Evaluate command. A prompt window to select a script file name is presented. If you installed NV2 in c:/nv then select the script:
c:/nv/nv2.exe/object/newviews/journal/general/decompress_transactions.qw_script.
If you installed NV2 in another directory, substitute c:/nv with the appropriate directory.
Note the following:
Transactions should be decompressed "bottom up", meaning start with the most recent date and work backward.
This is a recommendation only. In general you may want to decompress specific periods.
You can only decompress when the database is opened locally.
Decompressing is not allowed when a database is opened with multi-user access through a server. Decompressing requires the undivided attention of the database for performance reasons and even if multi-user access were allowed, other users would be paused for the duration.
You can only decompress when the current user is ADMINISTRATOR.
This simply prevents ordinary users from performing a decompression.
You must turn the reconcile safety to Off in the user options for the ADMINISTRATOR.
Compressed transactions are reconciled and they are deleted after being decompressed. But you cannot delete reconciled transactions unless the reconcile safety is turned off.
NOTE: you should back-up your NV2 books prior each time you are doing any decompression. Although NV2 has an automatic crash recovery system, there are still circumstances under which your databases may be irretrievably lost unless you can restore them from a backup copy.