My data files are getting large since I have used Qucken since 1/1/2002. If I archive my data, I don't see how I can do searches (e.g., what did I pay this merchant over the past 4 years). I would also like to do reports over multiple years. I don't see how to do this with archiving. It seems that once I do an archive operation, the data is gone into a separate file. How can I solve my large file problem and sill be able to do the reports and searching that I just described?
TIA.
Dick Snyder
You can't.
And what is your "large file problem"?
Many people have files greater than 30 Mb. Is yours even larger?
Most of us don't archive. We keep all data on file, so we can run the reports you talk about.
That's one reason many of us never use archiving.... Mine is closing on
25MB with data going back to 1993 and earlier. Many are reporting over 30MB.Regards, Hank Arnold
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I guess with the three answers I have received I know my answer - live with it! Thanks. The predecessor product I had before Quicken bought them out was Checkfree. You could archive data in Checkfree so your files could remain small but still run reports and do searches across the archives and active file. This has been a step backward but I guess that is my tough luck.
At that size, if it's slowing down, it something else.... I'm running XP Pro on a Dell 8200 w/512MB and it's just fine.
You might want to investigate further. See what programs are being automatically loaded and whether you have spy/malware installed. Also, try doing a disk cleanup and defrag...
Regards, Hank Arnold
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Also be on the lookout for a very large price history file (QDATA.QPH).
And possible price history corruption, which can also slow things down.
You can't find/fix price history corruption with Validate, but you can usually find and fix it by renaming QDATA.QPH (Quicken will create a new, empty, price history file next time you run it), then seeing if Quicken still acts sluggishly. If renaming the .qph file causes no improvement, just rename it back.
If there was price history corruption, you can recover most of the prices by: Quicken price history download, Yahoo (et. al.) .csv price file download(s), and manual re-entry.
Thanks for the suggestion on defrag. I only had 15% free on my hard drive due to a HUGE 11GB file from my video camera that was buried in an obscure place. Got rid of it and moved my iTunes files to a second hard drive I have in my computer and now C: is only 50% utilized. I expect that will make a big difference. (nothing funny was being automatically loaded BTW).
Dick
Don't expect a *huge* difference.... Assuming you are using NTFS, it's a lot less susceptible to fragmentation than FAT or FAT32.
Regards, Hank Arnold
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