Gnucash very slow after importing 13 yrs data from Quickbooks

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Quoting matthew-gnucash at newtoncomputing.co.uk:

> Having realised that loading gets slower the further through the
> file, I suddenly wondered if Gnucash uses the UUID in memory as
> keys in a hash. Whether this is true or not, changing my UUIDs to
> "echo $ordinal | md5sum" and everything runs fast again!

Yep, GnuCash uses the UUID as a key in a hash.

> Now all I need is a Perl version of the Gnucash UUID generator...
> (if anyone has one, please shout!)

Don't know about PERL per se, but fro the shell:

  uuidgen | sed -e 's/-//g'

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-derek

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