Zotero slowdown since 6.02 upgrade

dwmtractor · March 25, 2022

Hey folks,

I'm not sure what has happened, but ever since the 6.02 upgrade, I've noticed a significant slowing of Zotero. When I add or update a citation using the MS Word plugin, from the point I hit to save the citation, the green progress bar stays visible for a good 10-20 seconds before the citation is successfully placed in the document and I'm again able to edit my Word document. This represents at least a doubling, maybe a tripling, of the time to complete this same task pre-6.02.

Particulars: MS Word 2019, fully patched, on Windows 10 Home 64b also fully patched. Running on a Dell XPS13, 8th-gen Core i7, 16GB RAM and many gigs of free HD space. I do not use the sync feature, so shouldn't be related to that ... local database only.

Thanks in advance for investigating and hopefully patching.

dstillman · March 25, 2022

Can you provide a Debug ID for this happening?

dwmtractor · March 26, 2022

Here's the debug ID: D1223558410

adomasven · March 28, 2022

The debug log you submitted shows a citation update that is done from a cold-start of Zotero (the first insert into a document after Zotero restart will always be slightly slower) in a document with 200 citations take 3 seconds. If you can produce a debug ID where it takes longer, please do. Otherwise if this won't show up in a debug log you can also produce a video. Moreover, you can always disable automatic citation updates in Zotero Document Preferences to speed up updates.

dwmtractor · June 30, 2022

Realize I never followed up on this. I do see what you mean about cold start. Thank you.

Follow-on question though ... does Zotero look for some sort of internet sync on startup even if I'm not linked to a shared account (no point since I only use one device)? Last time I started it up while truly offline it took even longer.

dstillman · July 1, 2022

If you haven't set up syncing in the Sync pane of the preferences it doesn't sync, but there are various things it has to do at startup, including for a few seconds after the user interface appears, that can cause things to run slightly slower.