[moneydance] MD freezes then unfreezes

[Gordon Alley]

I haven't had this problem.
Have you tried copying your MD data file to a local drive and using it there
for a few sessions, to see if the problem occurs only when your file is
residing on .mac?

-Gordon

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 8:09 PM, John Lin <john.lin at grasshopperasia.com>wrote:

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> ive tried to post this to "Get Satisfaction", where there was a very
> similar posting by someone else.... but no solutions suggested have
> worked so far.
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> when i use MD, it regularly freezes every 5-10 min for about 20-30
> seconds.  when it unfreezes, it just works as normal and part of  text
> i wrote during the freeze piles through.  the keystrokes may not be
> complete upon unfreezing.... so it is a problem and annoyance.  other
> applications during this freeze (eg email, Word, etc) are all
> responding normally; its not the Mac.
>
> funny thing, it happens on both the macs that i use.  one possible
> complication is that i save my MD file on .mac (webdav server).
>
> this freezing has been happening sporadically over the years, but
> seems worse now as the file size swells (though its really only
> 2.9Mb).  a freeze is sure to happen everytime i use MD.  its very
> troublesome when entering a long series of transactions and you
> realize that the last few were during a freeze  (not all the key
> strokes may come through at the end).  i have checked all my
> transactions so that dates are all within normal bounds (i.e. i dont
> have transactions mistakenly dated 2099)
>
> MD version currently is 2008(r3) 629 and Java Version: 1.5.0_16
> both macs are 10.5.6 and higher spec machines w/ plenty of RAM.
> i connect to .mac (Webdav server) on high speed broadband.  upload
> speed = 42kbps.  download 5mbps
> "Perform auto-save" is OFF.  (yeah this was a primary suspect, but
> unfortunately it makes no difference on the freezes)
> "Make daily backup" is checked at set to 2 backups.  i backup to a
> "separate backup folder" on the local drive
> "save on every quit" is checked
>
>
> does anyone have this problem?
> does anyone have a solution (other than archiving) which i am not
> convinced is reversible.
>
> thanks
>
> jhlin
>
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Gordon B. Alley
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