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shriram.writely

29 Jul, 2025 02:23 AM

Hello folks,

My moneydance archive has suddenly grown in size. Is this expected? I never paid attention to this but every time I quit, it takes 10-15 minutes for it write out the backup before it exits.

Ignore the one from 2024. That was an empty account set.

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1. 1 Posted by dwg on 29 Jul, 2025 05:22 AM

   

   The increase in size is a little out of the ordinary.

   So has anything happened over the last few weeks? Added lots of attachments for example, performed substantial restructuring etc.

   Where are you writing the backup to? Some locations can cause problems of one sort or another.

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2. 2 Posted by Stuart Beesley ... on 29 Jul, 2025 06:06 AM

   

   I have a guess. Run toolbox and click analyse dataset and objects. Then upload that output here.

   Then, run toolbox shrink dataset, 1 days.

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3. Support Staff 3 Posted by Maddy on 31 Jul, 2025 09:44 AM

   

   Hi Shriram,
   We are sorry to hear about the problem you have encountered.

   Would you be able to send us a copy of your Moneydance error logs? The logs should include information on what might be causing the issue.

   You could navigate to Help->Console Window and click the arrow (at the bottom left). Select Copy to Clipboard and attach or paste the full content in your next reply.

   Alternatively, you should navigate to:

   Local Disk(C:)>Users>Your Name>.moneydance>errlog.txt

   Finally you can copy the full content into your next reply here.

   Thank you

   --
   Maddy, Infinite Kind Support

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4. 4 Posted by shriram.writely on 02 Aug, 2025 12:28 AM

   

   Nothing major changed: I added another instance of Moneydance (from my new
   laptop) that loaded the account set from a dropbox location.

   On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 10:22 PM dwg <[email blocked]>
   wrote:

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5. 5 Posted by shriram.writely on 02 Aug, 2025 05:26 AM

   

   DATASET FILE ANALYSIS
    ====================

   Dataset path: C:\Users\username\.moneydance\Documents\username.moneydance

   Dataset size: 599.0MB
   - settings file size: 62.0KB
   - key file size: 0.1KB
   - tiksync folder size: 598.9MB (with 27846 files)
     (note trunk file size: 58.6MB)
   - attachments size: 0.0MB (in 0 attachments)
   - archive size: 0.0MB (in 0 files)
    --------------------------------------------
   Valid files size: 599.0MB (in 27848 files)

   Non-core file(s) size: 0.0MB (in 3 files)
      - Non-core: 0.0MB
   C:\Users\username\.moneydance\Documents\username.moneydance\MRBPreferences.dict2
      - Non-core: 0.0MB
   C:\Users\username\.moneydance\Documents\username.moneydance\securityquoteload.bpam2
      - Non-core: 0.0MB
   C:\Users\username\.moneydance\Documents\username.moneydance\safe\tmp\import-1753925738148Credit
   Card - 8797_06-30-2025_08-03-2025.qfx

   This is what I see on the analyze data set.

   After running the shrink, the file size came down to 58.6MB. The backup on
   exit now happens quickly. Thank you!

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6. 6 Posted by Stuart Beesley ... on 02 Aug, 2025 07:12 AM

   

   You truncated the log file off and missed off the critical information! If you can repaste the whole analysis output I can see what caused this issue. It’s useful to see even if your own issue is fixed. Can you do this?

   Toolbox 🧰 +1 😃

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7. 7 Posted by shriram.writely on 03 Aug, 2025 07:53 PM

   

   Please find attached

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8. 8 Posted by Stuart Beesley ... on 03 Aug, 2025 08:51 PM

   

   At first glance there’s nothing abnormal.. BUT it is odd. It seems that there were loads of change files generated on 2025-07-12 which correlates to the jump in file size. So, did you perform some sort of mass import on that date or something?

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9. 9 Posted by shriram.writely on 03 Aug, 2025 11:35 PM

   

   Stuart:

   Here is the sequence of events leading up to 7/12:

   1) Early June: Had a windows version running for years with backup to
   Dropbox enabled. This is the config for years.
   2) About late June: started using Mac. Built the initial account set from
   the dropbox backup. Noticed that it took a long while to load the accounts.
   The backup dir had about ~200-300MB of files. This Mac instance backed up
   to the same dropbox location/user credentials.
   3) About 7/12: went back to the windows machine; started a new account set
   from the dropbox backup; Mac is now inactive. Now exiting the app was
   taking minutes. That is when I looked at the archive directory and saw the
   file size balloon up even further.

   Thank you for your time looking into this,
   Shriram

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10. 10 Posted by Stuart Beesley ... on 04 Aug, 2025 06:02 AM

    

    Hmm. Ok. Thanks for the info. Glad your issue is fixed. You might need to run shrink on all sync copies too.

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11. System closed this discussion on 03 Nov, 2025 06:10 AM.