Peachtree Manufacturing 2007

Posted by christoj879 on October 10, 2007, 6:11 pm

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Customer has Peachtree Manufacturing 2007 in a networked setup.

One of the machines that was also used by a worker holds the Peachtree
data that the other computers access (via Windows file sharing).

Worked fine until two new machines were put on the network, one
wireless (by adding an access point). Only one of the new machines
was set up with Peachtree, and this is via Virtual PC because Vista
won't work with Peachtree Manufacturing 2007.

The clients using Peachtree have recently complained that Peachtree
runs very slow. Upon inspection, it takes a very long time to move
through fields whilst creating invoices/sales orders, closing invoices
takes a long time, exiting the program takes a long time and sometimes
crashes, and it generally takes awhile to get fields to populate.
Sometimes it runs very fast with no problems, but then sometimes it
runs slow to bring up new windows or new data. Very weird. The long
time is from 5-10 seconds up to 30 seconds.

Tried everything on the machine holding the Peachtree data - removing
unneeded software, turning off antivirus, nothing so far has given
solid results. Also tried unplugging the wireless router as that was
the big material change to the network. Nope. Also, one of the hubs
on the network was replaced for a switch, now everything is switched
instead of being on a hub and a switch.

So, the software was installed on another machine (not used by anybody
currently) and the data was moved there, and the paths on the client
machines were changed to look there for the company data. Now one of
the networked clients (the one using the computer originally holding
the data - yes, the path was changed to the new server so they're not
accessing it from the hard drive) has no problems, things aren't slow
anymore, and if anybody uses that server itself they won't have a
problem because they're accessing the hard drive without going through
the network, but two other clients are still having the performance
issues noted above.

I tried turning off the Smart Data Entry options as outlined in the
Sage support, and I tried everything else listed above.

Any ideas?

Posted by christoj879 on October 10, 2007, 6:12 pm

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On Oct 10, 6:11 pm, christoj...@hotmail.com wrote:

> Customer has Peachtree Manufacturing 2007 in a networked setup.

> One of the machines that was also used by a worker holds the Peachtree

> data that the other computers access (via Windows file sharing).

> Worked fine until two new machines were put on the network, one

> wireless (by adding an access point). Only one of the new machines

> was set up with Peachtree, and this is via Virtual PC because Vista

> won't work with Peachtree Manufacturing 2007.

> The clients using Peachtree have recently complained that Peachtree

> runs very slow. Upon inspection, it takes a very long time to move

> through fields whilst creating invoices/sales orders, closing invoices

> takes a long time, exiting the program takes a long time and sometimes

> crashes, and it generally takes awhile to get fields to populate.

> Sometimes it runs very fast with no problems, but then sometimes it

> runs slow to bring up new windows or new data. Very weird. The long

> time is from 5-10 seconds up to 30 seconds.

> Tried everything on the machine holding the Peachtree data - removing

> unneeded software, turning off antivirus, nothing so far has given

> solid results. Also tried unplugging the wireless router as that was

> the big material change to the network. Nope. Also, one of the hubs

> on the network was replaced for a switch, now everything is switched

> instead of being on a hub and a switch.

> So, the software was installed on another machine (not used by anybody

> currently) and the data was moved there, and the paths on the client

> machines were changed to look there for the company data. Now one of

> the networked clients (the one using the computer originally holding

> the data - yes, the path was changed to the new server so they're not

> accessing it from the hard drive) has no problems, things aren't slow

> anymore, and if anybody uses that server itself they won't have a

> problem because they're accessing the hard drive without going through

> the network, but two other clients are still having the performance

> issues noted above.

> I tried turning off the Smart Data Entry options as outlined in the

> Sage support, and I tried everything else listed above.

> Any ideas?

Whoops, meant to make that title Peachtree Manufacturing 2007 Slow
Over Network :-)