David, Thank you for your comments. It sounds like this is widespread behavior. I would point out that 2.6.18 did work properly for several days after I installed it. Then something happened. I wonder if it was some Windows update or such that caused the change.
For me 2.4.15 works without the delay. If just does not have the report editing features I like to use. Seems like you have to rename a report to make changes and save it as custom. Closing all the reports just moves the delay to when you try to render a report manually after loading the file. So it's not really faster assuming you want at least one report. On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 2:59 PM, David Carlson <david.carlson....@gmail.com> wrote: > Steve, > > As far as I know, what you are describing has been the way GnuCash works > on Windows for the entire life of the 2.6 series as well as the 2.4 series > releases. > > I am currently using various releases from 2.6.12 on to release 2.6 16 in > Windows and Linux and I see the same with files saved in compressed > .gnucash format. I understand that behavior is a little different for > other formats and OS's but that there will not be a substantial improvement > in the 2.6 series or even in the upcoming 2.8 series, but I could be wrong > about that. > > As you have noticed, closing all reports before closing the data file > helps minimize this. > > David C > > On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 8:53 AM, Steve Goings <jsgoi...@novagraph.com> > wrote: > >> I've been using 2.6.18 on Windows 10 for some weeks with no problems until >> recently. >> >> Now, startup gets very slow as Gnucash renders the first report that was >> displayed in the last session. It takes about 30 seconds to render that >> first report. Then the other reports render quickly, as expected. >> >> When I close all the reports and then close Gnucash, restart happens >> quickly as expected. Then when I try to run any report, there is again >> about a 30 second delay to render that first report, no matter what it is. >> After that, other reports are rendered quickly. >> >> I have created a new Gnucash file, with the basic accounts, and no data, >> and get the same delay when rendering any of the standard reports the >> first >> time. >> >> I have removed and reinstalled Gnucash 2.6.18, to no avail. When I look at >> the Windows task manager, nothing seems to be eating CPU cycles or doing >> anything to slow down the system. >> >> I also have the latest Mac version of Gnucash running on a MacBook Pro, >> and >> it does not have this problem on the same data file and reports. >> >> Seeing this long delay after seeing none earlier has made me worry about >> some problem in the installation on Windows. I have tried clearing out all >> the Gnucash support files, such as I can find and reinstalling. None of >> this helps. >> >> Is this long delay on Windows for the first report rendering expected >> behavior now? If anyone has some ideas I would be grateful. >> >> In the meantime, I have gone back to 2.4.15 on Windows, and it works >> without any of the delays, but I would prefer to use the newer release if >> possible. >> >> I tried the development release, and it would not even run on my system. >> >> Thanks in advance for any advice or suggestions. I did report a bug on >> this, >> >> SG >> _______________________________________________ >> gnucash-user mailing list >> gnucash-user@gnucash.org >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >> ----- >> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. >> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. >> > > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.