JimS, Sorry that you feel so burdened by the Windows environment.
Maybe because all of us who do not know how to program or control a Linux machine with the strings of meaningless code required to start each process are better served by Windows environments where prepackaged software solutions do all the work for us. But better yet, you cannot change the laws of supply and demand so the overall worldwide market share numbers should speak for themselves. Windoz (in all variations) 90.48 % Apple iOS 7.73 % Linux 1.61 % SOURCE: (As any good genealogist should note with the facts presented) = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems If I were in any business catering to end consumers, I would want to give them something that 90% of them could use. Please dont take this as the start of a discussion because this list is not for that purpose. Jay On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 7:55 AM, Karen and Jim <sindbe...@att.net> wrote: > Hi, > > I've been using computers since 1970. > Now I'm a Linux operating system (OS) user. > Legacy is the only program I use requiring Windoz. > Currently I use Win8. > I still use LFT v.5 deluxe. > It works, so why fix it. > > When Windoz of my main OS > I did several things before installing new software. > 1. I ran ccleaner, a free program that >  a. removed used programs, libraries, trash, etc. >  b. cleaned up the registry (there are better >     programs for cleaning the registry, but $$$. > 2. I ran a good defrag program several times. > 3. I lowered the value of some services. > 4. Then I rebooted (cold) and installed the new program. > 5. Then I ran my anti-this-and-that programs to check for !@#$%^ > > All this work is why I don't use Windoz, > if I don't have to. > Plus Windoz is sloooow. > Too much maintenance, malware, and $$$. > > Wirth's law - Software is getting slower more rapidly > than hardware becomes faster. > > This law applies to Legacy. > I doubt that LFT v.8 is as fast as my v.5. > Wirth's law also applies to Linux with some versions > of Linux being too fat to work well on older computers. > > Legacy Family Tree is such a great program (and I've > used many others since 1984) that I suffer Windoz. > > JimS > > > On 11/29/2013 01:33 AM, Jay 1FamilyTree wrote: > > John, > > Thanks for helping out on this. > > It's definitely the Number of Events and also having the SHARED EVENTS > included that is slowing it down. > > If I create a gedcom and exclude both events and media, it completes in > 7 1/2 mins. > > If I exclude only events, it completes in 9 mins. > > If I include events and exclude media It takes over an hour > > If I exclude SHARED Events it completes in 8 Mins > > Funny thing is, I haven't yet created any shared events. > > > > Jay > > > > > On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 9:06 PM, John B. Lisle <leg...@tqsi.com> wrote: > >> Jay, >> >> I have forwarded your issue to the test list. That type of time >> difference is not expected. I assume you have your L8 on your SSD drive... >> >> Could you please run a test and get back to me privately? >> >> What I noticed that was very different in your Gedcom was the relatively >> high number of Media items. Could you please report the time but exclude >> exporting the Media items? I would like to give the developers some >> additional guidance about what might be the factor affecting the time. >> >> If you have any other class of items that might seem disproportionately >> larger than in a normal Gedcom, try excluding that class individually also >> for a test. >> >> thanks, >> john. >> >> At 11:30 PM 11/28/2013, Jay 1FamilyTree wrote: >> >> William, >> >> How many People are in your file and what the size of your .fdb file? >> >> I have 221,693 persons and my .fdb is 423,072 KB >> >> Jay >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 8:15 PM, William Boswell <whbosw...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> No speed problems running Legacy 8 with Windows 7 Home Premium 64, 8 GB's >> memory, 2009 computer. >> >>  >> >> I already got rid of Legacy 7.5. I'm very satisfied with Legacy 8 >> and I give many thanks to the developers. My ancestors thank you too. >> >>  >> >> Also thanks to all of the beta testers. This is a fine product and >> very reasonably priced. >> >>  >> >> From: John B. Lisle [ mailto:leg...@tqsi.com <leg...@tqsi.com>] >> Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2013 9:07 PM >> To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com >> Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] High CPU usage >> >>  >> >> Gavin, et al, >> >> I am not an employee of Millennia but have been a user and tester for >> 10 years so I can be frank... and maybe not too politic. ;-) >> >> Yes, L8 can run on small computers with limited resources and really >> old Windows versions, but it will be slow. >> >> L8 runs best on XP or above Windows and has been tested on all versions >> through Win8. (I do not know if anyone has done Win 8.1 testing.) >> >> It has been tested on reasonable modern computers with databases that >> are at or near the spec limits. Several FF of 300-500K people have >> performed very well. >> >> Family View will be slower if you have PP Alerts and FS Integration >> turned on; and without them it will still be a bit slower than L7.5. as >> trying to draw the new FV form just seems to take longer. >> >> Please note that double click navigation is gone. I hated that at first >> but have come to see that single click is more effective and faster and >> some of the new services and tools on FV make life easier. >> >> In real life, you are not spending all of your time redrawing this >> form, but you are going to be spending a lot of time editing and adding >> data. And this is just as fast or faster than before. >> >> Have you noted the 2.2 options to enable automatic sorting of children, >> marriages and events. That alone has saved me so much times... >> >> And note that now you can now right click on a child in a family and >> sort the children. >> >> Some of us testers, who consider ourselves power users of Legacy, have >> asked for and gotten tweaks that make our - and yours! - Legacy experience >> better. As you explore and play with Legacy 8, you will soon decide you do >> not want to return to L7.5. The key is now and always the ability to get >> our research documented. This is now easier with L8. It may be different >> from what you did before, but it is better. >> >> john. >> >> > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ > Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ > Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and > on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). 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