From emma.glaisher at fourninety.com Mon Jul 9 04:17:26 2007 From: emma.glaisher at fourninety.com (Emma Glaisher) Date: Mon Jul 9 04:17:32 2007 Subject: [EmData] Speed of XCatalog Message-ID: Does anyone know what factors effect the speed of XCatalog? I have a 40 page index, which is linked via one data descriptor to prices (3 per line) and another to page numbers. There are 94 products per page, and it takes about 40 seconds per page to update the page numbers. I tried copying all the text into an otherwise empty Quark doc, but that doesn?t help. I wondered if there?s anything else I can do ? like sorting the database or something, that would have any effect on the speed? OK, the job takes a couple of days instead of 2 weeks, so I?m gaining, but it?s boring watching the screen for 40 seconds every page, and rather more when I?m doing the prices! Thanks for any suggestions... Emma -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://emsoftware.com/pipermail/data-users/attachments/20070709/15669a69/attachment.html From emma.glaisher at fourninety.com Mon Jul 9 04:39:27 2007 From: emma.glaisher at fourninety.com (Emma Glaisher) Date: Mon Jul 9 04:39:32 2007 Subject: [EmData] Re: Does anyone know what factors effect the speed of XCatalog? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Thanks Roger - as always, you've solved it! Never bothered with snapshots - thought they were for poor unfortunates who didn't have Filemaker. But it has reduced page update from 40 seconds to about 3! Wish I'd thought of it before! Emma on 09.07.2007 09:34, Roger Fuller at roger@data2page.co.uk wrote: > Emma > > Are you using the 'Pro' version and linking directly to FileMaker? > > FM is very disc intensive. Try sorting the data. > > Or just export from FM a tab-delimited file and update from this. > > > > Roger > > 01908 263 953 > 07831 860 447 > > roger@data2page.co.uk > > > > > > - - > Inbound email: This email has been scanned for viruses by MessageLabs > (Fourninety) > > From support at emsoftware.com Mon Jul 9 14:53:46 2007 From: support at emsoftware.com (Chris Ryland) Date: Mon Jul 9 14:53:47 2007 Subject: [EmData] Re: Does anyone know what factors effect the speed of XCatalog? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <05E33A0A-A64C-4AA4-84DC-A66F6072550D@emsoftware.com> On Jul 9, 2007, at 4:39 AM, Emma Glaisher wrote: > Thanks Roger - as always, you've solved it! Never bothered with > snapshots - > thought they were for poor unfortunates who didn't have Filemaker. > But it > has reduced page update from 40 seconds to about 3! Wish I'd > thought of it > before! > > on 09.07.2007 09:34, Roger Fuller at roger@data2page.co.uk wrote: > >> Emma >> >> Are you using the 'Pro' version and linking directly to FileMaker? >> FM is very disc intensive. Try sorting the data. >> Or just export from FM a tab-delimited file and update from this. Right, the AppleEvent interface to FileMaker has always been glacial (pretty much it's the technology at fault). If you want fast online access, I think ODBC to FileMaker works much more briskly, though I don't have hard numbers to compare. Roger, do you have any idea? Cheers! --Chris Ryland / Em Software, Inc. / www.emsoftware.com From ddocherty at udcsite.com Sat Jul 28 22:18:41 2007 From: ddocherty at udcsite.com (David Docherty) Date: Sat Jul 28 22:18:50 2007 Subject: [EmData] XData import slower with Intel Mac and Quark 7? Message-ID: We are seeing slowing data import (merge) speeds with XData using one of the power new Macs with dual-core Intel chips and Quark 7 than on our older Macs running OS 9. Does anyone have any suggestions to improve speed? Thanks in advance for your tips and comments! Dave -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://emsoftware.com/pipermail/data-users/attachments/20070728/a4a9dc7d/attachment.html From ddocherty at udcsite.com Sat Jul 28 22:21:15 2007 From: ddocherty at udcsite.com (David Docherty) Date: Sat Jul 28 22:21:40 2007 Subject: [EmData] XData import slower with Intel Mac and Quark 7? Message-ID: We are seeing slowing data import (merge) speeds with XData than we used to achieve. We are using a powerful new Mac with a dual-core Intel chip and Quark 7. We get better speeds with older Macs running OS 9. Surely we are missing something..... Does anyone have any suggestions to improve speed? Thanks in advance for your tips and comments! Dave -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://emsoftware.com/pipermail/data-users/attachments/20070728/a88b5321/attachment.html