Quicken for mac slow to open
I recently converted over to Quicken for the Mac 2017. When I attempt to start Quicken it takes over 6 minutes before the application is available to use. This only seems to happen once each day. If I close the application after waiting the long 6 minutes and re-open the application, it starts up in a few seconds.
Has anyone seen this issue and have a work-around for it? This is pretty annoying.
I took a look in one of the log files and it looks like I'm getting some timeouts attempting to
access the quotes and histquotes pages. These timeouts seem to account for at least
4 minutes of the delay.
Has anyone seen this issue and have a work-around for it? This is pretty annoying.
I took a look in one of the log files and it looks like I'm getting some timeouts attempting to
access the quotes and histquotes pages. These timeouts seem to account for at least
4 minutes of the delay.
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You can always go into Preferences:General, and remove the checkmark from the "automatically download quotes" and see if this speeds up your launch. It should, as it will now only check for quotes when you update all your accounts (versus startup/every 15 minutes).
Recently my version of Mac 2017 started to take a long time to open. Same symptoms as you have described. Have you come across a solution to the problem yet? Would appreciate any advice you can provide.
Thanks, Dick
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From the time I click the Quicken icon to the time the program is usable is nearly 2 minutes. I see this in the console.log:
5/12/17 7:10:25.656 PM Quicken 2017[87736]: Requesting new bank list.5/12/17 7:10:26.223 PM Quicken 2017[87736]: We received 14780 records in the bank list.
5/12/17 7:12:08.314 PM Quicken 2017[87736]: We received 14777 records in the bank list.
About 15 seconds later the Quicken window actually appears and I get the "Updating 203 securities" dialog, which takes another 30 seconds to complete.
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But so far, there is no comment from Quicken, no hint about the source of the problem and no fix proposed. Are we all just barking into space?
I agree that Quicken has been very silent on this issue. It would be helpful if they would describe a useful set of system requirements that would solve this problem.
Quicken upon launch has to read through the entire data file to build account balances and other data it needs in RAM, so a slow spinning hard drive is *much* slower to launch with a large Quicken data file than a fast solid state or fusion drive. I would guess that this is a large part of the speed-up you've experienced.
Of course, replacing a 5 or 7 year-old Mac with a new one also means a much faster processor, RAM and other components, so all the faster hardware helps Quicken's startup -- but the type of hard drive makes the most significant difference.
Years ago I maxed out the RAM to 8 GB and replaced the old hard drive with a 500 GB solid state drive (SSD).
I'd venture to guess that my almost 9 year old MacBook is almost as fast as the newest ones.
The SSD made a huge difference in loading all software on it.
I also have an 2010 Airbook with solid state drive and it also takes me 3-5 minutes to open a file! Why that long??
I don't know, and no one here really does, why Quicken takes as long as it does to launch for users with large data files. It appears Quicken must read through all the records in the database to build its running balances for accounts and other data it builds on the fly each time it's launched. Only a Quicken engineer could answer definitively -- and they almost never are let loose to read and respond here.
I can speculate, though. The reason an immediate relaunch is fast on your iMac could be due to your hard drive. The 2015 3.2 GHz iMacs had a choice between a fusion drive and a 7200 RPM hard drive. I'm guessing you have the fusion drive. When you launch Quicken the first time, as it reads your data file, some of your data is being moved from the rotating hard drive portion of your drive onto the solid state portion. If you quit and relaunch quickly, some of your data is still on the solid state memory, so it's read much faster. If you use some other programs in between Quicken launches, your data file is relocated back to the lower-speed rotating disk.
Why is the much older Macbook Air is about the same speed as the newer iMac? The Air has a much, much slower processor, memory and bus -- but it has a solid state drive which helps Quicken immensely. The newer iMac is faster all around -- except it probably has a much slower spinning hard drive or fusion drive.