reports problem

[fred smith]

> fred smith writes:
> > Gentlemen:
> > 
> > Last night my wife was trying to produce some reports for the year 2000.
> > She selected the desired report and its options and when or shortly
> > after selecting the "export" button gnucash would appear to hang. If
> > we went to 'top' it would show gnucash at 95-99% of the CPU and it would
> > go on like that for minutes at a time, until we killed the process.
> > BTW this is (ISTR) 1.4.6.
> > 
> > Suggestions? (other than update which I already know is a good idea! ;^)
> 
> Could you tell us which report you ran and which options you
> selected?
> 
> thanks,
> dave
Dave:
Turns out I was wrong, it is 1.4.1, so maybe an upgrade will fix it?

Anyhow, she chose the transaction report, and in the options menu
chose starting date 7/1/2000 and ending date 12/31/2000. under sorting
set "transfer from/to (w/subtotal)" as primary key. She says that then
it hung "half the time". I personally saw it hang a couple of times and
it remained stuck for several minutes with high CPU usage in top. Also,
the gnucash windows did not redraw when obscured/unobscured, so I think
it was off in the weeds somewhere.

Fred


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