Upgrade StorageZotero standalone Mac very slow
Hello!
I am a happy Zotero user and am in the middle of a massive bibliography project involving around 20,000 entries. Zotero is working beautifully for me at home on an ancient Core 2 Duo machine. But on my office's modern iMac, Zotero is running unusably slowly. My complete library currently has about 10,000 files in it.
Zotero starts in a reasonable amount of time, but every operation is painful. To switch between collections of ca. 500 items each causes the spinning rainbow wheel to come up for 5-10 seconds. If I move an item into a collection, it takes about 30-50 seconds before I am able to do anything else.
I have tried uninstalling Zotero, deleting all the local libraries, reinstalling, and syncing with the server. Unfortunately, the slowness persists.
As I said, I'm using Zotero standalone with my home Core 2 Windows machine for this same project with no problems. I'm wondering whether there is a known flaw with the Mac version, or whether my problem is idiosyncratic to my machine.
Thanks!
Jonathan
I am a happy Zotero user and am in the middle of a massive bibliography project involving around 20,000 entries. Zotero is working beautifully for me at home on an ancient Core 2 Duo machine. But on my office's modern iMac, Zotero is running unusably slowly. My complete library currently has about 10,000 files in it.
Zotero starts in a reasonable amount of time, but every operation is painful. To switch between collections of ca. 500 items each causes the spinning rainbow wheel to come up for 5-10 seconds. If I move an item into a collection, it takes about 30-50 seconds before I am able to do anything else.
I have tried uninstalling Zotero, deleting all the local libraries, reinstalling, and syncing with the server. Unfortunately, the slowness persists.
As I said, I'm using Zotero standalone with my home Core 2 Windows machine for this same project with no problems. I'm wondering whether there is a known flaw with the Mac version, or whether my problem is idiosyncratic to my machine.
Thanks!
Jonathan
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1) Do you have the tag selector open in the bottom left on one machine but not the other? That's one known cause of slowness for libraries with a very large number of tags.
2) Do you have any Zotero extensions installed? If so, try disabling them.
3) Is your Zotero data directory on a network share rather than the local hard drive?
4) If none of that applies, provide a Debug ID for an operation that's slow and we'll take a look.
I am *deeply* grateful for your reply. I turned off the tag selector on the Mac version, and the problem disappeared.
Interestingly, I *do* have the tag selector open on my old Core 2 Duo machine, and there's no problem.
But the important thing (from my perspective) is that the problem is solved, and work can continue. Thank you so much!