gnucash slowing as file size increases

John Morris johnjeff at editide.us
Thu Mar 3 12:11:03 EST 2016


Hi Anne,
  For what it's worth, I was in your same situation a little under two years ago, although I was moving from Snow Leopard to Yosemite. I imported over twenty years of past data and found the start times to be too long. I also found that generating reports took too long to be useful. This led me to finally get around to clearing out the old transactions: I saved a copy of the file as it was with the twenty years of data and then deleted all the transactions from before 2010. This gave me a reasonable (although certainly not zippy) start time and made report generation tolerable.

Best,
John

> On Mar 3, 2016, at 11:55 AM, Anne Judge <anne.judge at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> 
> I'd be really interested in hearing the experience of anyone who's tried both formats.
> 
> I'm just starting with GnuCash, after upgrading my Mac from Snow Leopard (10.6.8) to El Capitan (10.11) and thereby losing my old Quicken.  So far, so good.
> 
> But - in switching, I imported 19 years of transactions, and startup time is very slow.  If there's an easy way to speed this, I'd love to know about it!
> 
> Thanks,
> Anne



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