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Relative Speeds of Versions BobK 10-27-2006
Posted by BobK on October 27, 2006, 12:17 am
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 I went from Q01 to Q03 and was generally appalled by how SLOW the "then
new" program was (about 3-5x; mainly program startup, but other
operations also).

It has stopped me from even thinking about further upgrades since
nothing in the newer versions has caught my eye.

Just curious, anybody have any feedback on how the response of the
versions has been since '03? How fast/slow is '07?

Posted by Jay Levitt on October 27, 2006, 11:42 am
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 On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 04:17:40 GMT, BobK wrote:

> Just curious, anybody have any feedback on how the response of the
> versions has been since '03? How fast/slow is '07?

It got much better in, I think, '04 - fastest it had ever been, after
occasionally taking 30 seconds to enter a transaction. I haven't seen it
significantly change speed through '07, and I've got some pretty hefty
files going back 10 years.

Jay Levitt

Posted by Jim Flaherty on October 27, 2006, 3:09 pm
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I just upgraded to 07 and noticed that during the upgrade it converted over
100K items. I've got 10 years of data and I've found quicken to be slower
and slower each year.

Especially startup, entering transactions and drilling down on security
detail (over 30 seconds on a 2+Ghz cpu). It flails the disk for an
incredible amount of time so I suspect that quicken is inefficient on
database access if the database is large (my .QDF file is 21MB).

Is there anyway to archive old data and get the database size down or known
tips for speeding things up?

Note: I also keep finances for another family member (QDF files is 800KB)
and everything from a performance perspective on this same system is
instantaneous.

Thanks,

Jim


> On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 04:17:40 GMT, BobK wrote:
>
>> Just curious, anybody have any feedback on how the response of the
>> versions has been since '03? How fast/slow is '07?
>
> It got much better in, I think, '04 - fastest it had ever been, after
> occasionally taking 30 seconds to enter a transaction. I haven't seen it
> significantly change speed through '07, and I've got some pretty hefty
> files going back 10 years.
>
> Jay Levitt



Posted by Dick on October 27, 2006, 4:54 pm
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I'm running Q07 with QDF file of 15MB file and I'm not having any speed
problems. I suggest you try doing a disk defrag if you haven't already
tried it.

>I just upgraded to 07 and noticed that during the upgrade it converted over
>100K items. I've got 10 years of data and I've found quicken to be slower
>and slower each year.
>
> Especially startup, entering transactions and drilling down on security
> detail (over 30 seconds on a 2+Ghz cpu). It flails the disk for an
> incredible amount of time so I suspect that quicken is inefficient on
> database access if the database is large (my .QDF file is 21MB).
>
> Is there anyway to archive old data and get the database size down or
> known tips for speeding things up?
>
> Note: I also keep finances for another family member (QDF files is 800KB)
> and everything from a performance perspective on this same system is
> instantaneous.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jim
>
>
>> On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 04:17:40 GMT, BobK wrote:
>>
>>> Just curious, anybody have any feedback on how the response of the
>>> versions has been since '03? How fast/slow is '07?
>>
>> It got much better in, I think, '04 - fastest it had ever been, after
>> occasionally taking 30 seconds to enter a transaction. I haven't seen it
>> significantly change speed through '07, and I've got some pretty hefty
>> files going back 10 years.
>>
>> Jay Levitt
>
>



Posted by Bernie on October 28, 2006, 12:26 am
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Same here. Quicken 2007P, 11 years worth of data, 22MB+ qdf file, and
Q2007 opens faster than any previous release!

But yes, there is a way to archive historical data. Check Help.

On 10/27/2006 3:54 PM, Dick wrote:
> I'm running Q07 with QDF file of 15MB file and I'm not having any speed
> problems. I suggest you try doing a disk defrag if you haven't already
> tried it.
>
>> I just upgraded to 07 and noticed that during the upgrade it converted over
>> 100K items. I've got 10 years of data and I've found quicken to be slower
>> and slower each year.
>>
>> Especially startup, entering transactions and drilling down on security
>> detail (over 30 seconds on a 2+Ghz cpu). It flails the disk for an
>> incredible amount of time so I suspect that quicken is inefficient on
>> database access if the database is large (my .QDF file is 21MB).
>>
>> Is there anyway to archive old data and get the database size down or
>> known tips for speeding things up?
>>
>> Note: I also keep finances for another family member (QDF files is 800KB)
>> and everything from a performance perspective on this same system is
>> instantaneous.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jim
>>
>>
>>> On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 04:17:40 GMT, BobK wrote:
>>>
>>>> Just curious, anybody have any feedback on how the response of the
>>>> versions has been since '03? How fast/slow is '07?
>>> It got much better in, I think, '04 - fastest it had ever been, after
>>> occasionally taking 30 seconds to enter a transaction. I haven't seen it
>>> significantly change speed through '07, and I've got some pretty hefty
>>> files going back 10 years.
>>>
>>> Jay Levitt
>>
>
>

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