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nancyl
Level 5

Searching the list issues so frustrating

Since 2017 we've had QB and this has been a constant issue. When access' customers, items, and other files "SEARCHING the LIST" starts scanning and take forever. It can take literally 10 minutes to enter a new customer. This only happen to users like myself and my boss who have full access. The only fix I have found is to give us a new name and password.  That's works for a while and then it starts all over again. I verify data and do a rebuild monthly. Also it doesn't happen to us both at once. Today 1/2 hour for the boss to get into the customer file, I can get right in. 

Bottom line is this is so frustrating and for the amount of thousands we pay every year for QB there should have been a fix for this issue by now. We are using Enterprise V32.0D R5. Updated June 2022

Anyone have a permanent fix? 

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JessT
Moderator

Searching the list issues so frustrating

Hi Nancy,

 

Thank you for sharing your experience with QuickBooks Desktop.

 

When it takes time to load a list or section, it means your computer doesn't have enough memory or can't handle software like QB Enterprise. Aside from that, too many background processes can also cause lags. I'll introduce a few steps to resolve such a performance issue, but be sure to create a backup before doing any of them.

 

Resort your list. You'll want to do this when you notice an odd behavior when navigating through your list of customers (and other name lists), items, or accounts.

 

  1. If you're in Multi-user mode, switch to single-user mode.
  2. From the Customers menu, select Customer Center.
  3. Click the Edit menu at the top left of QuickBooks.
  4. Select Re-sort List, and then OK.

 

Check the system requirements. This is to ensure that your computer meets QuickBooks Enterprise's specifications and to help you decide if there is a need to upgrade your computer. If it meets the system requirements but still gets the same behavior, I recommend contacting our QB Enterprise team again to check this further. Please note that we can only provide troubleshooting references from here, but you've already performed them, so contacting the team is our best resort for this.

 

Stop other programs in the background, except for anti-viruses and other necessary programs that need to keep running. Alternatively, you can restart your PC and only run QuickBooks.

 

Please don't hesitate to comment again if you have any other concerns.

nancyl
Level 5

Searching the list issues so frustrating

The memory on one of the PC's is 4GB.  I'm going to upgrade the PC and see if that changes it before I do anything further.  Thank you! 

Lele757
Level 1

Searching the list issues so frustrating

Create a new login for that person. This happened to one of our employees "Taylor" so I created a new login "Taylor2" with all the same permissions & no more searching. I'm having same issue now, but I'm administrator & can only have 1 so setting up a new user w/admin rights.  

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