Re: Quicken file size - should I reduce?

On 07/19/24 12:21 PM, JohnSmith wrote:
> John Pollard said
> 
>> On 07/18/24 9:31 AM, JohnSmith wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> My quicken data file is 118Meg.  Quicken is also starting to run a
>>> little slow (Via satallite internet).  I'm thinking about reducing
>>> the filesize to speed things up.  Any thought on this?
>>
>> I recommend against the typical approach to reduce the size of your
>> file; namely "Archiving" data.
>>
>> Your existing file is not that large - mine is 343mb and I have no
>> meaningful response time problems.
>>
>>
>> Quicken file size plays virtually no part in Quicken response time.
>> And I don't see how your Quicken file size coupled with your internet
>> connection speed could meaningfully affect anything except
>> online-backups.


> <Big Snip>
> 
> Thanks for comprehensive response John, it's greatly appreciated.  I
> think for the time being I'll just live with the odd delays.
> 
> Along these lines, are you sure Quicken does not ping sites repeatedly as
> it starts to download data?  I expected the <slow satellite> ping rate to
> perhaps be a delay factor.  Some of the delay seem to occur when simply
> starting a OSU.

I have no insights into whether Quicken pings anything - when 
downloading or otherwise.

But the size of your Quicken file doesn't have anything to do with 
downloading times.

However there now can be as many as 4 software entities involved in OSU 
downloads:
- the financial institution
- Intuit servers
- Quicken servers
- Quicken on your PC (qw.exe)

Those entities can be involved in the initial request to download to 
Quicken; and in the resulting data download (usually initiated by the 
financial institution - except for some "Express Web Connect downloads, 
where Intuit screen scrapes data from the financial institution web site).

In other words a download request/response may pass through Intuit and 
Quicken servers going upstream (the request) and coming back downstream 
(the response).

I doubt there is much you can do to improve download times.

If you're concern is just having to sit and wait for a download to 
complete, you could use Tools > Schedule Updates to schedule your 
updates to run when you're doing something else.