Are there plans for performance improvements in Quicken?
I have 2000 transactions with no category assignments. Payee contains ABC and replaces category ABC category.
By mistake, I left the screen on a credit card account with many of those transactions that I wanted to recategorize. How else do I know the transactions that need adjustment?
Quicken Class Business & Personal started the replacement, but after about 10 minutes, it just slowed the i7 8core computer down to crawl and I had to kill the process. Even Task Manager was very slow to appear and refreshing anything on the screen took many seconds. CPU was only at 20% and memory was only 30% out of 16GB.
Not sure what happened, but the software doesn't scale well on mass transactions if you leave it on an account.
You'd think it's a simple update query based on the selected IDs, but it painstakingly goes through each transaction then refreshes the screen each time with the replaced category and repeats.
In the find & replace screen, it goes through the highlighting process where it selects each row individually as it scroll down the entire list of transactions. If you want to sort the find and replace screen by Cat so you can custom select the missing categories, you have to wait for all the records to be selected, clear all, sort by cat, select the records you want to change, and then wait forall the rows you selected one by one.
If you don't refresh the screen, until the find & replace is done, would this process go faster?
You don't notice the inefficiency as much when its like 50 or 200 transactions, but 2000, it really shows how bad the flow is. If only keep two years of transactions (its a lot of rows, but nothing a basic database with proper indexing can't handle) but it does show on sluggish Quicken can be. I'd like for some refinement so the software works better.
