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Relative Speeds of Versions BobK 10-27-2006
Posted by aboutfinsoft@gmail.com on October 31, 2006, 9:27 pm
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 You can archive data in Quicken, but archiving does not split off old
transactions. See http://tinyurl.com/uuejj .

You want to do a year end copy to divide your data file. Details on
how to do it here:
http://tinyurl.com/shzqn

In my experience, some folks have huge Quicken data files and have no
issues with Quicken slowing down, while others swear Quicken is running
slower with a larger data file. I personally do a year end copy to
split off data so my data file only goes back 2 or 3 years. I simply
have no need for data past that time frame for my personal finance
needs.

As for the speed of Quicken 2007, it seems to run just as fast (or
slow, depends on your perspective) as it has the past two years.

Shelley Elmblad
About Financial Software
http://financialsoft.about.com

Jim Flaherty wrote:
> 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
>


Posted by Margaret Wilson on November 1, 2006, 8:26 am
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 aboutfinsoft@gmail.com wrote:

> In my experience, some folks have huge Quicken data files and have no
> issues with Quicken slowing down, while others swear Quicken is running
> slower with a larger data file. I personally do a year end copy to
> split off data so my data file only goes back 2 or 3 years. I simply
> have no need for data past that time frame for my personal finance
> needs.

> Jim Flaherty wrote:
>> 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.

Other things to consider in addition to processor speed and hard disk
fragmentation are (1) sufficient *free* disk space for hard drive
swapping, and most importantly, (2) sufficient RAM. If Quicken and/or
other apps are causing your computer to constantly access the hard disk,
then either running fewer apps simultaneously and/or adding more RAM
will be a big help. The more RAM your system has, the less disk
swapping your computer will have to do, and the faster your OS and apps
will run. If you're running low on hard disk space, there may not be
sufficient space to properly defrag, and if your available space is
really low, there won't be enough room to swap to the hard disk, slowing
things down even further. For Windows XP, IMNSHO, you need at least
512MB RAM, preferably 1GB. Necessary hard disk space depends on how many
apps you have installed and how much data you have.

I partition my main hard disk into C and D partitions, with C containing
the OS and apps, and D containing all data. I prefer, however, to use
separate hard drives, but now HDs are so large that it's a waste of
space for me to put C and D on separate drives. (For now, anyway.) I
like to have my C partition total size = twice the size of actual data
stored, so if I have, say, 7GBs of OS and apps, I like the C partition
to be ~14GB in size (wouldn't hurt to be 20GB IMO). Same goes for data
(D), you should have plenty of free space. If you really want to get
fancy, you can move the Windows page file to a separate hard disk, and
that will speed things up, too.

As I've said many times before, I upgrade QP every year (am currently
running) 2007, and Quicken is plenty fast for me. The only time it
really takes is starting up and showing the flash screen. But most, if
not all, apps take some time to start up and copy themselves into RAM.

Regards,

Margaret

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