How long will data be saved?

[flabbygums]

I just started using Mint yesterday. Unfortunately Mint could only import the last 30 days of my primary bank account - I realize this is normal..and actually fine since it's only the end of March 2008 and I can manually add the first 3 months of this year separately (with excel, not using Mint).

My question is, come next month I'm assuming April data will be added, then May, then June etc... so by next March I will have a year of data, correct? How about 2009 or 2010?

How long will Mint store this data for me? Are there data limits?
Perhaps you could enable me to store all this data locally instead of on Mint servers?

Thanks!

[mac22]

I am wondering if you ever got a response on this. I am wondering the same thing.
Thanks!

[SkippyFlipjack]

Mint adds however much data the financial institution will give. PayPal had transactions going back six months; Fidelity had just a few days. Each night or when you click "update", Mint.com grabs any new transactions from the financial institution and stores them. I'm pretty sure they hold all data indefinitely; I haven't read anything to the contrary. I think it would be pretty silly of them to limit data storage to one year or even five years; it would keep people from using the site, and storing data this small is cheap.

I believe they don't currently allow data export. I hope they change this; after spending a lot of time editing and recategorizing transactions, it would be nice to be able to export that info for use in excel or wherever.

[eric1985]

I have data back for 1 full year now, and growing!

[da bum]

Very cool, eric1985!

Did you feel like mint is slowing down when you search or filter transactions? I always wondered if this would be an issue as you get more data.

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I have data back for 1 full year now, and growing!

[eric1985]

I have not noticed that. It is nice to look back month by month and compare spending. It gives me more of a spending thermometer. I also realized that I have spent far too much money in that last 12 months.

[uberzoop]

eric1985,

So if I'm on my transaction tab and at the bottom I have this option to "export all 244 transactions"

http://i40.tinypic.com/ogwi1h.png

Four years from now, it might say download all 2,300 transactions? Any long term users around to confirm this?

And can you switch year to year in your trends graphs?

Couple more theads on long term Mint.com data storage:
http://forums.mint.com/showthread.php?t=6073
http://forums.mint.com/showthread.php?t=4603