Number of people in Reunion

[Streiffers]

I now have more than 228.000 persons in my family file. In a folder imported media are more as 33.000 files and Reunion gets slow. How much more can I store in Reunion

[bbousquet]

I have 174000 individuals in my file. Data entry (for example, first and last names) is somewhat slow. There's something obviously happening in the background while I'm doing the data entry. Reunion 12 did not exhibit that behavior so I expect this to get resolved in an upcoming maintenance update. This is on an admittedly underpowered 12-inch MacBook (2016, m7 model) but that should be quite enough to run Reunion.

[Mark]

How much more can I store in Reunion

There's no known limit to the amount of entries you can have in a family file -- we've see files with over 500k entries.

That being said, there are two features that can cause slowness in larger family files (as they require a lot of data processing).

The first one is the Check for duplicates when adding new people feature, found in:

Reunion -> Preferences... , General

And the second is the "Calculate relationships 'on-the-fly'" feature, which can be disabled in the drop-down that opens when clicking the Change button at top-right of the Relatives sidebar.

Disabling those, if they're currently enabled, will likely speed things up a bit.

HTH

[Maurice Mézière]

That being said, there are two features that can cause slowness in larger family files (as they require a lot of data processing).

I noticed another feature that caused slowness in my family file. A few weeks ago I tried to use the List - Couples window and Reunion became really slow taking seconds for every entry.
I switched back to the List - People window I usually use and everything was back to normal.

FWIW

[eric.vanbeest]

...And I thought my 100k+ people file was large.

In addition to Mark's recommendations (and especially turning off identifying-relatives-on-the-fly) I would suggest rebuilding caches every x0,000 people added, and to only keep the Main window open - not any List windows. List windows also significantly slow down Reunion data entry.