Caution - Quicken 08 is a memory HOG

Tom:

I don't see this as a real issue. I'm running a 3 1/2 year old Pentium 4, 3 GHz, 1 MB RAM. My main Quicken file is 24MB, transactions going back to 1986. Quicken opens on one account with 6,000 transactions. Clicking on my other account with 8,000 transactions is instantaneous. (maybe a 0.5 sec delay)

Just running Quicken, I go from 400MB available memory down to 280MB if I click on 50 accounts. My main file has >180 accounts. After clicking on the 12th account or so, there is a noticeable lag opening further accounts. I would just close Quicken and restart if I need to access more than a dozen accounts.

In my situation going from 400MB to 280MB by deliberately doing something un-natural is not a problem.

Your situation may be different, but I don't think a blanket condemnation of Quicken 2008 if fair.

Bob

I noticed that it takes Quicken 08 several seconds to go from account to account when reconciling downloaded transactions - I have about 50 accounts.

I ran an experiment comparing the 06 amd 08 verions (still running 06 on another PC). Ran both with the Task Manager running. Quicken 08 starts up using 50 Megs of memory. When I click thru the accounts it grows rapidly. When I clicked thru all 50 accounts it hit over 600 Megs.

Did the same with 06 version. Starts up using 28 Megs. I opened EVERY one of my 50 accounts - only used 46 Megs of RAM.

Apparently the new version must suck in EVERY transaction when clicking on the account.

I think I will stick with Quicken 06.

A whole 1 MB of RAM! Man that's hot! ;-)

Sometimes I don't get you guys. "I have all my data for 20 years! My Quicken Database is 50 Megs. I have thousands of accounts and transactions, non of which I'll ever refer to in my life. I like keeping everything because organizing shit's too difficult and time consuming for me. Why the hell is Quicken so damn slow!". Geeze. Clean up for crying out loud! Geeze!