Upgrade StorageZotero very slow
I've seen more than 132 threads in the forum about slowness, I don't know If I should open a new one, but as any situation is somehow peculiar I do it.
Since some months already, I realized an ever increasing slowness on zotero response, both opening but also adding, sorting, clicking on filed just to correct an input and so on; basically everything has become slower some days almost unusable and in a few cases hanging firefox. Now I have a 2013 PC fairly performing I would say, I use zotero with portable firefox (but installed on the hard disk not on a key) as I don't have administrators rights. The size of the library is some 10600 items plus 2000 attachments and notes. The size of the database is some 90 MB. Even using zotero standalone is still slow. However I installed a Mac version at home (but without activating the sync functions - apart for importing the library from the server at the first start) and zotero is perfectly responsive on the mac; now the question is is that possible that the 2000 attachments make the difference? I don't think zotero indexes the same items all the time,so what can make it so slowly responsive on the windows machine? I'm not sharing this library with nobody. However I access a shared library in the groups library ( avery small one no more than 400 items). Any idea?
Best regards
Michele
Since some months already, I realized an ever increasing slowness on zotero response, both opening but also adding, sorting, clicking on filed just to correct an input and so on; basically everything has become slower some days almost unusable and in a few cases hanging firefox. Now I have a 2013 PC fairly performing I would say, I use zotero with portable firefox (but installed on the hard disk not on a key) as I don't have administrators rights. The size of the library is some 10600 items plus 2000 attachments and notes. The size of the database is some 90 MB. Even using zotero standalone is still slow. However I installed a Mac version at home (but without activating the sync functions - apart for importing the library from the server at the first start) and zotero is perfectly responsive on the mac; now the question is is that possible that the 2000 attachments make the difference? I don't think zotero indexes the same items all the time,so what can make it so slowly responsive on the windows machine? I'm not sharing this library with nobody. However I access a shared library in the groups library ( avery small one no more than 400 items). Any idea?
Best regards
Michele
You've tried minimizing the tag selector? That'd be the only other thing I can think of.
You didn't answer re: the tag selector--is that already minimized?
Anyhow the Debug ID is D534544953.
Best regards
Michele
I really love zotero, it saved me so much time, but now it slows down more and more.
For a few weeks I am desperately trying to solve my performing-problems with zotero. Sometimes it takes me >3 mins to cite. I can type in the literature quite quickly but it takes zotero too much time to apply my entry.
My Debug ID is: D1817020378
System specs: MB Air 2012 (8GB RAM) and Word 2016 (it is the same with the 2011-version)
I hope that you can help me, it slows down my workflow dramatically :-(
Thank you all already!
My document has about 219 pages, round about 61.000 words and approx. 230 citations (i.e. entries in my bibliography, not the number of citations in the text).
I guess it is a performance problem of my recent notebook due to the age (specs) of the device?
Thank You!
Thank you for your advice! Just some notes and questions left...
1) Usually the bibliography is not inserted in the document, I've done this just to provide the information in the forum. I will do this at the end, just as you suggest.
2) Is the slowdown compensable by a stronger machine or is it a limitation in zotero?
I've just updated zotero; thanks for this, zotero-team! :-)
3) I have no experience in working with separate files in word yet. I would try to avoid this as long as 2) would solve the problem. If not I will have to do it this way :-/
Kind regards
You can try those things, but you may still find that updating references is slow with 300+ citations in the text. To work with each chapter in a separate file, just move each section to a new Word document and continue to add/delete/modify references as normal. Then, at the end, copy the contents of each chapter file into one combined document and click the Zotero Refresh button (you may need to click the Zotero Document Preferences button and choose a citation style first). It really doesn't take much extra effort and can save you a lot of time.
The Zotero developers are aware of the slowdown that occurs with very large documents and some ideas have been proposed for how to speed up different areas, but it will take a while to implement a solution.
Thank you again for your helpful answers! I have solved the problem just as you suggest. Zotero is as fast as it was in the beginning. For all others out there with the same issue: Word also makes it possible to use so called "master documents" with subdocuments. You can always have a glance on the master document without copy-pasting over and over again.
Great thanks to all developers!
I don't have the faintest clue about the technical side of this, but I really wish this would become a feature in Zotero for Word.
this is already possible in Zotero. Go to the context menu in Word and klick on the broken chain symbol. In Word 2016 it is Add-Ins > chain symbol. This turns the whole text in a plain text in word formation. For my part i do not do this until the whole work is done and i would always keep a version with zotero-fields. Now I use master and sub documents as explained above.
Good luck!
1. I have installed the program "DB Browser for SQLite" (http://sqlitebrowser.org/)
2. while checking that Zotero was not running;
2. I have made a backup copy of the file zotero.sqlite that is placed in the Zotero folder,
3. then I've opened the original file zotero.sqlite with "DB Browser for SQLite" (from the File tab)
4. and I've used the function "Compact Database" (again under the File tab) on that same file.
5. Once I have started Zotero once again, it has been able to load all the database in less than a minute: something I've never experienced for years!
I wonder whether a "Compact database" fuction could or should be integrated within Zotero itself.