Data file too large

[Derek Atkins]

Ian K <ik522000 at yahoo.co.uk> writes:

> 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).

Slowness on Windows OS is due to extra data sanity checking that happens
every time you open GnuCash.  Said checks are much faster on Linux.  It
is unfortunate we have to do this, but the alternative is data
corruption.  You can thank Microsoft. ;)

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-derek

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