using 1.9 for the first time sucks

[Derek Atkins]

Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb at becket.net> writes:

> So I start 1.9.1, and after I navigate the startup screens, I select
> File>Open>Open and open my gnucash accounts file.
>
> I now must sit and wait while the damn thing starts rendering one of
> every report I ever requested in 1.8.
>
> This is obnoxious and foul.

This is also a known issue...  :(
Part of the problem is that gnucash-1.8 was bad about only saving
"open" reports -- it saved ALL the reports it's ever known about,
and the "open" reports were saved in the MDI file.   We don't read
the MDI file in 1.9 -- perhaps we should.

> Thomas

-derek

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