[GNC] Sluggish after 5.13

[John Ralls]

I think that’s an info message you get when running GnuCash with the —debug flag: It’s just reporting that it couldn’t open your XML file with the sqlite3 backend.

To make sure I just tested the latest build with a SQLite3 file and it opened without complaint (and without any messages since I didn’t tell it —debug).

Regards,
John Ralls

> On Oct 27, 2025, at 5:25 PM, Xe Roy <xeroy at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I tried the latest stable version and see this when I start the program:
> 
> No suitable backend was found for [sqlite3.gnucash file]
> 
> 
> On 10/27/2025 1:02 PM, John Ralls wrote:
>> This was reported in https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=799670. Users there have reported that recent nightly builds from https://code.gnucash.org/builds/win32/stable/ don’t have the problem.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>> 
>> 
>>> On Oct 27, 2025, at 10:55 AM, Xe Roy <xeroy at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Windows 11
>>> 
>>> On 10/27/2025 12:33 PM, R Losey wrote:
>>>> I am glad I'm not alone! Please proved the operating system you are using.
>>>> 
>>>> I upgraded to 5.13 on a Windows 10 machine. There have been no problems as far as the crashes that have been reported, but I have noticed that the whole program seems very sluggish (the load/save seems about the same, but just data entry seem "sluggish")
>>>> 
>>>> I am using compressed XML to stare my data (I think this is the default). While I don't think the storage option is the issue (as I understand it, SQLite store the data as it is being entered, and XML writes the data out either via AutoSave or when the user Saves the data).
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Mon, Oct 27, 2025 at 12:19 PM Xe Roy <xeroy at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>    GnuCash has become extremely sluggish after upgrading to 5.13
>>>> 
>>>>    I use SQLite3.
>>>> 
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