7 seconds on a 2018 Macbook Pro, but i only have 3 years of data loaded.

I have six years of workouts and it loads in less than a minute in my laptop. Sounds like you have an issue. I’d suggest posting in the GC Google group, they are a friendly and helpful bunch.

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Sr. Salitre

Mine GC is pretty slow go open, but I'm on a weird machine - Win 8.1 and about 5 years old - but with a 1 Tb Samsung SSD. Nearly everything is pretty snappy, but GC takes ages to open...

I have 6 years of data, opens with in seconds on a Macbook Pro.

Couple things to try;

- One, make sure you run back ups.
- Make sure your not searching for new FIT files out on the web at start. The best way I have found is to use Taprik to put FIT files on my computer, then loads those at start up if needed.
- Make sure you have seasons set up in the log under trends. It won't try to do any calculating at start up besides recent data.
- Once you have seasons set up, you have a file or two or more that has some funny data in it. I have found multisport files are not well liked with in GC and gives it a good kick in the rear.

Check out the Google group. Some others may have more ideas.

GoldenCheetah will load data into memory at startup, this include metrics, metadata and annual MMP (but not ride sample data). This enables this info to be shown and plotted very quickly once the application has launched. When you launch a new release for the first time it will also recalculate metrics and possibly MMP for all rides - this can take a few minutes.

The overall performance gain once the application is launched is worth the wait, believe me. If launch is taking more than 20-30 seconds then perhaps you have little free memory or a very slow hard disk. I would recommend a PC with at least 4GB ram as a base, anything less than this will struggle.

The only other option is to reduce the amount of data and split into separate athletes with perhaps 5 years of history each.

Mark

Thanks Mark for the amazing program. And your and others’ replies.