Re: Archiving
Gordon Alley <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.finance.moneydance.general |
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I'm on an iMac 2008 with 4GB of RAM, and I don't use encryption. My Backup preferences are set to keep 5 daily backups, and do an autosave every 5 minutes. It takes about 15 seconds to launch, from the time I click on the document shortcut icon in the Dock, until the MD home window appears in all its glory. I presume most of that time is spent reading and parsing the data file. I've never been aware of when backups or autosaves are happening. -Gordon On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 9:33 AM, Jerry Rubinow <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a large file also, going back to the early 1990s. However for me, > every time MD makes a backup in the background, the program freezes for 15 > or 20 seconds while it's writing and/or encrypting the file. Extremely > annoying. > > I'm on Windows with (obviously) encryption and autosave turned on. What is > everyone else running such that they're not getting these pauses? > > -Jerry > > On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Gordon Alley <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > I also agree. My MD data file goes back to 1998, and is at 25MB now. > Every > > now and then I need to go back and check for some old transaction. > > > > -Gordon > > > > On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Tjalco P. van der Meij <[email protected] > > >wrote: > > > > > Greetings, > > > > > > > > > On 25/01/2011 07:28, Edward Reid wrote: > > > > > >> At 1/24/2011 06:54 PM -0500, John B. Egger wrote: > > >> > > >>> Somebody MUST be using this function... or does everyone just let his > > >>> primary data file grow and grow? > > >>> > > >> I let mine grow. I see no point in trimming a personal financial > > >> record. > > >> > > > I agree and I also do not use the archiving function. My one doubt is, > > > whether the size of the file will eventually slow down the program. So > > far > > > that does not seem to be the case. My main .md file is 4 Mb which > > represents > > > more that ten years of bookkeeping. > > > It is the equivalent of 4 photographs so space is not a consideration. > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Regards, > > > Tjalco P. van der Meij\ > > > presently at: > > > Groenendijk 106 > > > 4587CZ Kloosterzande > > > the Netherlands > > > +31-114-851864 > -- Gordon Alley http://www.gordonalley.com http://facebook.com/gordonalley http://twitter.com/gordonalley http://www.linkedin.com/in/gordonalley