tag:infinitekind.tenderapp.com,2009-01-14:/discussions/praise/533-md-2015-file-structureInfinite Kind: Discussion 2020-09-06T18:34:44Ztag:infinitekind.tenderapp.com,2009-01-14:Comment/365814062015-04-15T16:12:00Z2015-04-15T16:12:00ZMD 2015 File Structure<div><p>Hi Art,</p>
<p>Thanks for the praise and we're happy to hear that you're happy
with the updates! Please let us know if we can be of further
assistance!</p>
<p>Scott Meehan<br>
Infinite Kind Support</p></div>Scott Meehantag:infinitekind.tenderapp.com,2009-01-14:Comment/365814062015-05-23T13:20:35Z2015-05-23T13:20:35ZMD 2015 File Structure<div><p>Unfortunately not so efficient on disk space</p>
<p>MS money file, 65 MB<br>
MD file 310 MB :(</p></div>troy.tudortag:infinitekind.tenderapp.com,2009-01-14:Comment/365814062015-05-23T13:23:20Z2015-05-23T13:23:20ZMD 2015 File Structure<div><p>It is true The MD2015 file format takes up quite a bit more disk
space. This is particularly the case if you are downloading lots of
security prices. We have a plan for how to reduce the amount of
space security prices take up.</p>
<p>Ben Spencer<br>
Infinite Kind Support</p></div>Ben Spencertag:infinitekind.tenderapp.com,2009-01-14:Comment/365814062015-05-23T13:31:00Z2015-05-23T13:31:00ZMD 2015 File Structure<div><p>I don't have a lot of security data.<br>
I do know, the problem partially relates to the large amount of
historical transaction data imported from MS money, and when I
subsequently reconciled these transactions the file size
doubled!!!</p>
<p>MD have been talking about a solution all year, (see other
threads (no longer available because the old support solution was
dropped)), however months have elapsed and there's no
improvement</p></div>troy.tudortag:infinitekind.tenderapp.com,2009-01-14:Comment/365814062015-05-23T13:43:59Z2015-05-23T13:43:59ZMD 2015 File Structure<div><p>The MD2015 data file format records changes, so each
reconciliation operation will have created and stored a new change
object. Periodically these changes are rolled into the trunk but
currently we have decided to keep the change (.txn files) rather
than delete them. This allows other devices to sync those changes
and replay them. I expect we will end up choosing to delete change
files that are more than a year old but have not yet implemented
that change.</p>
<p>Fixing the file size increase is not currently the highest
priority. I realize this is important to you but we have limited
resources and cannot implement everything we would like to right
away.</p>
<p>Ben Spencer<br>
Infinite Kind Support</p></div>Ben Spencertag:infinitekind.tenderapp.com,2009-01-14:Comment/365814062015-05-24T22:10:02Z2015-05-24T22:10:02ZMD 2015 File Structure<div><p>I agree with you Ben that file size should not be a high
priority as long as the program is not impacted by it. I was at
first surprised by the file size but again as long as it does not
affect the performance of the program I'm ok with it. Drive space
is cheap.</p>
<p>My .moneydance folder is over 100 MB. If my data file was
anything like this in MS Money (which I left for MD in 2006) I can
only imagine how long it would take to update the file on each
transaction!</p>
<ul>
<li>JIm</li>
</ul></div>jimmplsmntag:infinitekind.tenderapp.com,2009-01-14:Comment/365814062015-10-19T14:40:10Z2020-09-06T18:34:44ZMD 2015 File Structure<div><p>I disagree - large files are cumbersome and do take time to back up, especially over wireless networks. This is even more so in those cases where there is no capability to archive old transactions (it doesn't work).</p>
<p>I used to use both Quicken and MS Money a long time ago. They both had archive functions which removed transactions to separate files and re-stated opening balances to make sensible current information. Moneydance 2015 seems to remove old data and create garbage in current account balances.</p>
<p>I now have Gigabytes of data synching to my Cloud storage which slows down my networks.</p>
<p>Back to searching for a decent personal finance package that does things sensibly</p></div>pmslittontag:infinitekind.tenderapp.com,2009-01-14:Comment/365814062015-10-20T18:58:40Z2015-10-20T18:58:40ZMD 2015 File Structure<div><p>MD "resolved" the data archiving by removing it from the menu -
unbelievable!!<br>
Due to the number of printing errors reported, I expect they will
soon removing printing</p></div>troy.tudortag:infinitekind.tenderapp.com,2009-01-14:Comment/365814062015-10-21T07:50:30Z2015-10-21T07:50:30ZMD 2015 File Structure<div><p>I believe one of the biggest problems with archiving is dealing
with Investment accounts. With things like shares you need to
maintain each transaction and as you often use a transfer from a
bank account to fund purchases then it could become very messy when
you try to archive transactions, you would need some way of
maintaining these transfers in your current file while the
investment is still active.</p></div>dwg