Data file too large

[Mike or Penny Novack]

Ian K wrote:

>For the same reason as the OP, because data loading is getting slow and will
>only get slower.
>I'm using a top-spec new PC but with 3.5 years of data (1.2MB compressed
>file) things are still slowing down (particularly on Windows).
>
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Try time vs space? After all, these days space is relatively cheap. Nor 
is this sort of data likely to have been highly compressible, at least 
not by general purpose* compression methods << how compressible data is 
depends on its entropy >>

At least as an experiment, if you can, try uncompressed data.

Michael D Novack

* A "custom compress" is another kettle of fish, can achieve much higher 
compression ratios by using "meta knowledge" about the data. These used 
to be my line of country, but I doubt the gnucash developers wrote a 
compression routine specific to (and able to take advantages of) gnucash 
data.