Why is The THERAPIST Slower on a Network than Word or Excel?
We get this question from time to time and it seemed like a good time to answer it here. It’s a good question and a simple one but the answer turns out to be less simple than the question. When you load a Word or Excel document that is stored on another computer on your network, the whole file is read at one time and all of the work on the document happens in memory until you save the file again. Then the entire file is written back across the network at once. Even on fairly large files, reading one time and writing one time are relatively fast though noticeably slower than if the document was on your own hard disk.
