Data file too large

[Xavier Lagraula]

Hello all,

Thanks to your answer I now know why GnuCash 2.6.3 starts more slowly on my
Core i5 / 4Gio RAM / Win7 desktop than GnuCash 2.4.x on my Celeron / 2Gio
RAM / Crushbang Linux netbook. Quite impressive. This is a very low
priority question, because it is only asked out of curiosity, but why are
those checks so much slower on Windows?

Best regards,
  Xavier


2014-07-07 15:12 GMT+02:00 Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu>:

> 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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