Hi,
You are not the only one. Money fails with large files, especially when they
have a number of loans, it seems. It was discussed on this forum a few years
ago. This might be on purpose (to force you to migrate to a more expensive
program), or just bad design, and no will to improve it (Microsoft is so
poor, they can't afford to debug it). I'm still with Money 99, which works
at reasonable speed. When I moved to the 2000 version, I got what you
describe: 30 sec. to enter a transaction. I tried 2003 and I could't even
complete the upgrade of my file: it got stuck after half an hour of trying.
My file is 40Meg.
So my advice: stick to 1999 version if you have a large file. After all
subsequent improvements are mostly gimmicks, except perhaps for the "undo"
feature, which I'm missing very much.

As they say: if it ain't broken, don't fix.

Good luck
"Cal Learner-- MVP" <via_newsgroup[at]please.tnx> wrote in message
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In microsoft.public.money, Jo wrote:

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You have Money 2003??

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I've no answer, but I have the same problem. Archiving
doesn't help and I have the same long delays, on an even
faster computer (1.8 GHZ). I've been looking for an
answer for several years, with no luck. Money is also
the only program I seem to have this much trouble with.


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I upgraded from Money 2002 to 2004 and I thought that 2002 was significantly
faster than 2004. 2004 is almost unbearably slow. Whenever I go to enter a
scheduled transaction right now I click enter and then go do something else
like browse this newsgroup for a few minutes.

It really is rediculous.


"anonymous" <anonymous[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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The little graphs at the bottom of register displays also slows it down a
lot. Disable those to speed things up a bit.

YMMV

"anonymous" <anonymous[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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money 2003 is fast unless you have other things in
background working. then it gets slow.

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On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 07:19:05 -0800, "anonymous"
<anonymous[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

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2003 is NOT very fast...and brings other programs running to its
knees.


Have a nice week...

Trent

Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity!

change to Money 2003 or 2004...they are faster.
archive some data....


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Answers below.

"Mark Rez" <anonymous[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Don't bet on it.

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I don't know. Have you read http://www.bollar.org/msmoney/#Q4?

I've been working in Money 2002 for several years. It's
getting slower and slower. 10 - 20 seconds of
the "hourglass" to record a payment? 30 seconds to
accept a new downloaded transaction? Some entries take
over 60 seconds! I might as well go back to the pencil
and checkbook method!

I have 851 MHz with 30 GB hard drive. I defrag once a
month... It doesn't help. The most recent defrag
exercise tells me I have almost 50% of the hard drive
still available. I recently added 256MB to the original
128MB of RAM...no improvement. I have archived all but
the last three months of records...no improvement. This
can't be normal!

Every other program runs fine on this computer. Am I
missing something?