Upgraded OS to Mountain Lion, downloaded latest GnuCash and RUNS CRIPPLINGLY SLOW

[John Ralls]

On Feb 1, 2013, at 9:45 AM, Emily Szabo <emilyszabo at ymail.com> wrote:

> I have been using GnuCash for the entire 2012 accounting year and I just
> upgraded my OS on my Mac from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion. I tried to open my
> original version of GnuCash and I was given a message that that version was not
> compatible, so I went to gnucash.org and downloaded the latest version (about
> 10 days ago or so) and tried to open an existing GnuCash file, which it did
> open. Unfortunately, the program runs INCREDIBLY SLOW and I can hardly navigate
> it and I don't know how on earth I will be able to access all of my tax-related
> data for last year. It is a nightmare and I am not a programmer by any means
> and the GnuCash Wiki page is absolute Greek to me! Can anyone please tell me
> what has gone wrong and how I might fix it? Please, I AM desperate. I can't
> even tell you which version of GnuCash I am running because I can't get the
> menu to drop down so I can locate it!

You did drag it to the Applications folder, right? Don't try to run it out of the dmg.

How much memory does your computer have? Mountain Lion's a bit more demanding that 
Snow Leopard was, and Gnucash loads the whole account file into memory.

Regards,
John Ralls