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I'm glad that you got GnuCash working to your satisfaction. Regards, John Ralls > On Sep 13, 2019, at 2:46 PM, Alton Brantley <alton.brant...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks for the input, John > > I had moved my 2.6.21 to another folder, named Gnucash 2.6.21 and had run it > from there. Then I installed 3.7-1 into a new folder named Gnucash, and ran > it from there. That’s when it was sluggish and seemed not to be reading the > stored options incorrectly. > > I bit the bullet and deleted the Gnucash 2.6.21 folder and the older working > version and its subsidiary files stored in the “.app” bundle, rebooted my > machine, and ran the 3.7 version. It ran slow the first time I ran it loading > the data file. I then immediately exited the program back to Finder, and then > re-ran it. It came up much faster and the beachballs are gone. > > I suspect (but cannot verify or prove) that in some way the execution of the > program was being cross-linked with some components of the older version, > perhaps even symbolically or by a text parameter, and then having problems > running correctly. > > I do know for a fact that a lot of the software status is stored in the > “Defaults” space, the preference database. Deleting the older app may well > have made those text references fail, and therefore made the Defaults space > delete them, so that the second execution used either no info, and so found > them in its “.app” tree, and then loaded them into Defaults. > > Thanks again for taking a look at this. > > Alton > >> On Sep 12, 2019, at 2:16 PM, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: >> >> >> >>> On Sep 12, 2019, at 5:42 AM, Alton Brantley <alton.brant...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> On Mac OS X 10.14.6, I’ve moved from Gnucash 2.6.21 to 3.7. All the data >>> look fine, BUT >>> >>> I get lots of beachballs as I move from one screen to the next, or even >>> scroll within a register. Looking at the logs, >>> I get lots of Gnucash process messages along the lines of >>> "found no value for key NSPersistentUIShowQuietSafeQuitStatus in >>> CFPrefsSearchListSource<0x6000030bed80> >>> (Domain: org.gnucash.Gnucash, Container: (null))” >>> >>> So it seems that the program is not finding something it expects and is >>> spending a lot of time in error or fault management. Any suggestions about >>> how to give the program what it needs for the keys for which it’s finding >>> no values? >> >> That's a new one. >> Google finds only one useful page about that, >> https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/1835 and after two years the Docker >> folks still haven't figured it out. >> >> Neither string is present in MacOS.10.14.sdk nor turns up anything for me >> when I search Console. >> >> Try using the spindump tool in /Applications/Utilities/ActivityMonitor (the >> gear icon) when GnuCash is beach-balling to get a snapshot of what's going >> on. >> >> Regards, >> John Ralls >> > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
