On 10 Feb 2005 13:31:10 -0000, Manfred Acker
<AckerManfred515[at]carpal.plarnck.org> wrote:

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Not particularly.

It'll take about 15 sec to start the program and bring up my modified home
page, which is a somewhat customized Normal display. It takes about eight
seconds to bring up the portfolio display, and I have about 50 positions shown.
Other operations, such as posting transactions, take less than one second.

I have a Dell 8200 that's a few years old. It has a 2GHz P4 CPU, 512MB RAM,
and I'm presently running Windows XP Pro SP2. I have IDE disc drives and am
using the NTFS file system.


--ron

On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 21:09:52 -0500, in microsoft.public.money you wrote:

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You have a large file. Do you have any performance problems with your
computer. Is it slow! What is your computer speed?

On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 07:42:38 -0000, "Bob Peel MVP"
<Bob_Peel[at]kiandraNOSPAM.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:

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I'm not sure how long I've been using Money -- probably ten years or so.

My .mny file is 87MB.


--ron

I wish that were true, Bob.


"I have a theory that the .mny file size grows until it reaches a plateau
and doesn't grow much after that."

--
Michael Gordon
MVP


"Bob Peel MVP" <Bob_Peel[at]kiandraNOSPAM.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
news:uGcfHHbDFHA.1280[at]TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
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Anybody seriously using M98+ for more than a year or two has a file as large
or larger than 4MB. Next time you talk to him, ask what documented
constraint/limitation this exceeds. (Answer: none. You don't need to tell
him the question is a test.) What a crock. It probably got you off the call,
though.

"Ann Scharpf" <AnnScharpf[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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IMHO the support rep is talking from the place where the sun doesn't shine!

My Money file dating back to '95 is 12mb and there are others with much
bigger files. Although I haven't studied it properly, I have a theory that
the .mny file size grows until it reaches a plateau and doesn't grow much
after that. As far as I can see version changes seem to have more effect on
file sizes. The known killer is stock quotes, so maybe you want to prune
stocks that you no longer hold and haven't held for a long time.
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Regards
Bob Peel,
Microsoft MVP - Money

For UK tips & fixes see
http://support.microsoft.com/default...d=fh;EN-GB;mny.
For wishes or suggestions see
http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp
or for UK wishes http://www.microsoft.com/uk/support/money/feedback

I do not respond to any emails that I have not specifically asked for.

"Ann Scharpf" <AnnScharpf[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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In early 2003 I experienced file corruption problems and an MS support rep
helped me to run the salvage program on my .mny file. He told me that my
problem resulted from the .mny file's growing too large. It was about 4 meg,
which he said was too big. He recommended that I archive every year.

I just looked at my file. Haven't archived since the beginning of 2003, so
I archived. The .mny file only shrunk from 3.9 to 3.5 meg. Started to look
here and read the FAQ page. I see tht some of you recommend against
archiving, so I renamed the archive file back to my primary name.

My question is ... do I need to be concerned about the size of my .mny file?
If yes, how do I shrink the size of the current data file?

Thanks for any help you can give me.
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Ann Scharpf