Zotero very slow to open

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  • Dear All,

    I just switched to Mac and found my Zetero also becomes very slow: I have a large dataset (>20000 entries) and it will take 1-2 minutes to open. Turning off/on the tag selector does not have significant effects. I checked a couple of times the debug output and found it took more than 1 minute (sometimes 2 minutes) to get the "user interface ready".
    Here is the debug code D726932896 that i submitted.
    "
    (3)(+0000001): User interface ready in 65419 ms
    "
    When I insert citations into Word file, it still a bi slow to open the citation window. I can clearly feel the slowness, compared to the PC I am using in my office.

    My Mac pro is a bit old, but the specs are still fine:
    2.2 GHz Intel Core i7
    4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
    Graphics MD Radeon HD 6750M 1024 MB
    Intel HD Graphics 3000 384 MB

    I would really appreciate if some of you could give me some suggestions.

    Best wishes,
    Jack

  • Is it particularly slow after startup? Zotero 5 does take longer at startup, but should be otherwise faster than 4.0 for post-startup actions.
  • dstillman, Thank you very much for looking into this issue.
    bwiernik, Yes, post-startup is not slow, only the first time opening.
    As always, thank you all very much for providing this wonderful tool.
  • Startup has been very slow for the last couple of weeks. This morning it took about 5 minutes to load. (Standalone, Windows 10, running Chrome.)
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