# Slow log exporting
**URL:** https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/slow-log-exporting/2759
**Category:** Bugs
**Created:** [January 12, 2007, 7:23am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/slow-log-exporting/2759 "2007-01-12T07:23:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@stevage](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/stevage)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2007, 7:23am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/slow-log-exporting/2759/1 "2007-01-12T07:23:58Z")
My “Export log” action is still running after 8 minutes. It’s pretty big (6694 actions), but that still seems a bit slow. Is this a known issue?Steve
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### Author:  [@tate](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/tate)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2007, 7:42am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/slow-log-exporting/2759/2 "2007-01-12T07:42:43Z")
No, not a known issue. is it taking longer that it has in the past? how bit in total is the html or xml file produced?
.t8
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### Author:  [@stevage](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/stevage)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2007, 8:01am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/slow-log-exporting/2759/3 "2007-01-12T08:01:25Z")
I’m actually not sure that that step has been executed many times in the past. I have a couple of big exported files (.htm) around half a meg, biggest was 800kb. I’ll keep an eye on it and see if it happens again.
Steve
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### Author:  [@stevage](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/stevage)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2007, 8:05am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/slow-log-exporting/2759/4 "2007-01-12T08:05:17Z")
Hmm, now it’s the “saving log to archive” step which is taking forever. I think my computer (and me) needs a nice long weekend reboot to think about it. 🙂
Steve
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### Author:  [@tate](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/tate)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2007, 7:29am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/slow-log-exporting/2759/5 "2007-01-19T07:29:13Z")
Ok… figured out the problem (we were filtering a recordset instead of using a range on an indexed table…). On my simple test, the performance has gone from around 17 seconds to export the log, to about 2 seconds.
New build coming next week.
.t8
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### Author:  [@angus](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/angus)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2007, 11:54am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/slow-log-exporting/2759/6 "2007-01-23T11:54:03Z")
Hi Steve,
The new build is now available. We’re very interested to hear what the speedup is like:
[https://www.finalbuilder.com/downloads/finalbuilder/500/FB500\_116.exe](https://www.finalbuilder.com/downloads/finalbuilder/500/FB500_116.exe)
- Angus
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### Author:  [@stevage](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/stevage)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2007, 11:43am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/slow-log-exporting/2759/7 "2007-01-28T11:43:10Z")
Ok, thanks. If all goes according to plan, I won’t actually be doing a major build for a while, but I’ll let you know when I do.
Steve