Slow startup of Gnucash

[Dave Peticolas]

Carol Champagne writes:
> Hi,
> 
> I imported several years' worth of Quicken data, approx. 9K
> transactions, to Gnucash, and I noticed that it takes several minutes
> now to load Gnucash.  Twice while it was attempting to load this
> morning, I received this error message:  "Gnucash. No response to the
> Save Yourself command.  The program may be slow, stopped or broken.  You
> may wait for it to respond or remove it."  After I hit "Cancel" each
> time, the program eventually loaded.
> 
> There are other places where large amounts of data cause Gnucash to
> appear hung.   Is this expected, or should I report these other
> instances as I find them?

If you aren't at least seeing an hourglass mouse cursor to indicate a
long-running operation, then you should report them.

thanks,
dave