Slow startup on OSX

[David Reiser]

On Nov 11, 2007, at 5:09 PM, Adrian Simmons wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> I've finally decided to ask about something that's been bugging me  
> for a
> while. Firstlu in tiger and now in leopard.
>
> Gnucash often taks a really long time to launch, by that I mean  
> several
> minutes. The startup splash/message reports 'reading file' and today
> 'writing file' for far longer than anything else.
>
> I do have a several years of transactions in my accounts file, is that
> likely to be the issue, or perhaps a messed up report?

Do you have reports coming up when you launch? Any reports that are  
open in your default state will have to be regenerated on launch. With  
several years of data, that could be slowing you down. You should get  
a chance to test that on the next version. Someone figured out how to  
streamline report generation significantly.

gzip on the mac seems to work excruciatingly slowly -- that's probably  
what's slowing you down on writing the file. I've turned off  
compression of my data files because I hate waiting for the  
compression to work. Disk space is cheap. :-)

Dave
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David Reiser
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