I've been with Quicken for more than 20 years, and the size of my database has become HUGE (over 250,000KB). For more than 10 of these years, I've noticed a gradual degradation of how long it takes to save a transaction — to edit a transaction, it now takes 3-4 seconds; multiply that by a huge number of transactions per month, and there is a large amount of time just sitting and waiting. I have nearly 50 accounts, and tons of checks written, credit card transactions and investments. So instead of saving me time, Quicken is now costing me considerable time. I am very SURPRISED and DISAPPOINTED that Quicken does not come up with solutions for its most faithful (oldest) users, who are the ones who will have these large numbers.
When I call Support, Quicken suggests archiving older data, but if I do that, I can no longer access the cost basis for stock transactions as well as when I had older transactions (unless I restore an archive, which is totally cumbersome — the opposite of what Quicken is supposed to be). I a, "begging" Quicken to come up with a solution that is seamless and will work for its larger database customers.
BTW, I have a very fast computer with a lot of memory (16GB RAM, 350 GB free on the hard drive). I am using Quicken R54.16 and am on the current Build.
Are any others experiencing this problem? Can Quicken respond to address this issue and offer a future upgrade/solution without my having to go through a whole bunch of needless steps?
