Upgraded OS to Mountain Lion, downloaded latest GnuCash and RUNS CRIPPLINGLY SLOW

prl prl at ozemail.com.au
Sat Feb 2 01:52:53 EST 2013


On 2/02/13 14:50, John Ralls wrote:
> On Feb 1, 2013, at 9:45 AM, Emily Szabo <emilyszabo at ymail.com> wrote:
>
>> I have been using GnuCash for the entire 2012 accounting year and I just
>> upgraded my OS on my Mac from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion. I tried to open my
>> original version of GnuCash and I was given a message that that version was not
>> compatible, so I went to gnucash.org and downloaded the latest version (about
>> 10 days ago or so) and tried to open an existing GnuCash file, which it did
>> open. Unfortunately, the program runs INCREDIBLY SLOW and I can hardly navigate
>> it and I don't know how on earth I will be able to access all of my tax-related
>> data for last year. It is a nightmare and I am not a programmer by any means
>> and the GnuCash Wiki page is absolute Greek to me! Can anyone please tell me
>> what has gone wrong and how I might fix it? Please, I AM desperate. I can't
>> even tell you which version of GnuCash I am running because I can't get the
>> menu to drop down so I can locate it!
> You did drag it to the Applications folder, right? Don't try to run it out of the dmg.
>
> How much memory does your computer have? Mountain Lion's a bit more demanding that
> Snow Leopard was, and Gnucash loads the whole account file into memory.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
For comparison with Emily, I have a MacBook Pro 2.26GHz Intel Core 2 
Duo, with 4GB 1067MHz DDR3 memory and Mountain Lion 10.8.2. As I wrote 
earlier, I have no performance problems with GnuCash for my personal 
finances; compressed XML account file is about 0.5MB.

Peter


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