Please Provide Method of Aborting Find and Replace

Timothy Frank

It is possible to unintentionally start a "faulty" Find and Replace, which once started, will continue scanning the file for tens of thousands of entries. A person has to wait a long period of time for such a faulty Find and Replace to terminate. Can you please provide a method of aborting a Find and Replace operation? Perhaps an "Abort" button?

Robert Affleck

Very much needed! Any find over 100(?) or 1000 results should be abortable.

gjs

I vote for this… I just accidentally ran a find/replace on short common word and it took 10 minutes to complete. While it is listing the 13,000+ entries it found, Quicken can not be used for anything else.

Thanks

jhg

This is desperately needed, since there's a bug where the search parameters can silently change when reopening the Find/Replace dialog. In my case "Amount" changed by itself to "Payee" and then the condition (a number) was always true so it tried to find every transaction in the database… took 15 minutes to finish with no way to stop it.

Jim_Harman

If the find can't be stopped once it has started listing the results, maybe there could be a confirmation if there are more than 100 or so matches:

"8,765 matches found. Continue?"

or something like that. Getting the count of matches should be much faster than listing them all.

heisescott

I just closed the account register window. I use "pop-up registers (preferences → Register → Register appearance → Use pop-up registers), so I can see multiple registers at the same time, I didn't even have to shut down quicken. My search that was taking forever was for about 600 transactions. I had to do them 150 transactions at a time, in 4 passes

LMillsap1

Please! Please! Please! Provide an "Abort" or "Confirm" buttons.

One faulty keystroke or one too few or incorrect search parameters and you can be doomed to 5 or 10 minutes of waiting for thousands of entries to display, then have to redo the search again anyway to get just what you needed in the first place. Even the ability to just close the Find window and abandon whatever is going on would be helpful.

Chris_QPW

Note if Quicken's performance on this was better it wouldn't be such an issue, but in fact Quicken is doing it wrong, and that causes all the problems.

I can guarantee you that Quicken's database can find thousands of transactions in seconds.

So, why does find a few hundred take so long?

It is the natural of GUI lists. In every GUI I have even used back to Unix in the 1980s till today has terrible performing lists. Whereas you have databases that can retrieve millions of records per second, if you put more than even a few hundred items into a GUI list it will drag down the performance to a standstill.

But you say, "I don't see that in Excel or what not!"

That is because long ago they created a "workaround" for this problem.

If you think about it, the only items in a list that "matter" at any given moment are the ones you can see.

So, what is done is you read the items from the database into memory (very fast) (if there isn't enough memory you just fetch directly from the database for just what you need for a given window of data), and then you have GUI code fetch only what is needed for displaying the list to the user at any given time as they scroll around.

This is a bit harder to implement than just writing code that dumps all the items into the list, but once you exceed say hundred or so items in a GUI list the performance goes way down and it is very much required.

Quicken is dumping all of the transactions it finds into the Find and Replace dialog list.

Want proof of this? Quicken's non-investment registers are setup properly to do this "virtual windowing". So, go to All Transactions on the Account Bar.

Select All Dates.

For me, that is 43,042 transactions. How long do you think it takes to display that? (a second or two)