[GNC] Getting slow response and logged faults in 2.6.21 to 3.7-1 conversion

[John Ralls]

> On Sep 12, 2019, at 5:42 AM, Alton Brantley <alton.brantley at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Mac OS X 10.14.6, I’ve moved from Gnucash 2.6.21 to 3.7. All the data look fine, BUT
> 
> I get lots of beachballs as I move from one screen to the next, or even scroll within a register. Looking at the logs,
> I get lots of Gnucash process messages along the lines of 
> "found no value for key NSPersistentUIShowQuietSafeQuitStatus in CFPrefsSearchListSource<0x6000030bed80> 
>  (Domain: org.gnucash.Gnucash, Container: (null))”
> 
> So it seems that the program is not finding something it expects and is spending a lot of time in error or fault management. Any suggestions about
> how to give the program what it needs for the keys for which it’s finding no values?

That's a new one.
Google finds only one useful page about that, https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/1835 and after two years the Docker folks still haven't figured it out.

Neither string is present in MacOS.10.14.sdk nor turns up anything for me when I search Console.

Try using the spindump tool in /Applications/Utilities/ActivityMonitor (the gear icon) when GnuCash is beach-balling to get a snapshot of what's going on.

Regards,
John Ralls