In one of the major updates, the Check & Repair was fixed and it is now blinding fast. If you blink, you'll miss it (really, it's that fast).
If I remember correctly, one of the developers said it was incorrectly making far more passes through the system that it needed to. On Mon, Dec 30, 2024 at 4:32 PM Greg Feneis <mfen...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks everyone. It seems like my upgrade journey was successful. > > The only odd thing is that after I installed 5.10, I started gnucash and > it loaded my file OK. Then I tried to run Check & Repair all. The command > is accepted from the Menu, but I see no activity in the lower left of the > window like I usually see when I run check & repair. Other than that. > Everything went so easy. > > > > > > Kind regards, > > Greg Feneis > > > > > On Mon, Dec 9, 2024 at 9:44 AM R Losey <rlo...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> On Sun, Dec 8, 2024 at 2:14 PM Robert Heller <hel...@deepsoft.com> wrote: >> >>> At Sun, 8 Dec 2024 10:35:09 -0800 Greg Feneis <mfen...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> > >>> > Hi Folks, >>> > >>> > 2.6.21 has served my simple business accounting needs for many years, >>> but >>> > I've had to change computers and it's probably a good time to get >>> current >>> > on GnuCash. >>> > >>> > Could someone remind me how to get from 2.6.21 to current? Since it's >>> a >>> > new computer, perhaps I should start by installing 2.6.21 so that the >>> next >>> > thing I install inspires an update? >>> >>> Yes, you need to install each major version in turn. Install 2.6.21, >>> open your >>> books and make sure everything is as it should be. Make a backup copy, >>> then >>> install the last of the 3. series. Open your data files, make sure >>> everthing >>> is ok, then save the file (this will update the data to 3.whatever). Make >>> another backup copy. Then install the last of the 4. series and open the >>> file >>> you saved from version 3. Make sure everything is ok, then save it again >>> and >>> make another backup. Now install the current 5. version. Open the just >>> saved >>> version and check for problems. Then save it, You should now be up to >>> date. >>> >> >> >> The above is a good summary, except I think it is recommended to also >> run the "Check & Repair All" after each major version update. (That item is >> found in the Actions->Check & Repair" menu) >> >> >> -- >> _________________________________ >> Richard Losey >> rlo...@gmail.com >> Micah 6:8 >> > -- _________________________________ Richard Losey rlo...@gmail.com Micah 6:8 _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
