What do you do when Quicken just becomes too slow to use?

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Serious question!  I have ~95 accounts (both open and closed) in my Quicken file and transactions that date back to 2007 or so.  I dunno if there's a way to count every transaction but I probably have about 100k or so.  At this point, doing my daily update takes around 10 minutes to complete, but then almost an hour to review & accept every transaction.  I've been trading options recently so I know that doesn't help.  Just switching between accounts takes 15-20 seconds.  Clicking "accept" on each SELL transaction in my investment account takes almost a minute.  The whole "lot selection" rigmarole takes even longer.  I have some accounts I update manually and I dread having to put in dividend reinvestment items as I know it'll be a multi-hour affair.  I have a fast Windows 10 PC with a ton of RAM and a SSD.

What do people do when using this software becomes unusable?  Just start over with a fresh file?

spalt · Answer

Had no idea that was even possible!  Thanks!  I've tried it with one account so far and it doesn't seem that much faster but I suppose will give it some time.

There's no way to clean up the security list, right?  I have almost 500 on mine.....

miklk · Answer

Try to Archive your investment accounts (Keeps current holdings in account and creates a new archived account with older EX-holdings)

If that doesn't correct it enough, I would do a file copy, Create a Copy BUT you will need to re-enable all online accounts downloads etc.. (This does a record by record Copy so does fix many datafile problems)