Zotero launching very slow

sanalphatau

I pay for zotero premium and have a decent-sized library but not excessive.

I only store journal articles and books chapters in zotero.

Recently I have found the zotero desktop app since upgrading to 6.X launches excessively slowly. I am writing this post after waiting for 5 minutes for zotero to launch it is now well on its way to 8 minutes I can see a Zotero process in my task manager using resources (10% CPU and ~1GB memory) but no window opens and I can't use the cite plugins or connector plugins.

I'm a research scientist I use zotero every day at work and this is really crippling my current workflow. Any help troubleshooting this problem would be appreciated.

Thanks for the help!

dstillman

That's certainly not normal.

Can you provide a Debug ID for Zotero startup, using the "Restart with Logging Enabled…" option?

dstillman

(And if this is your synced library, it's not remotely close to a size that would cause a performance problem, so there's something more fundamentally wrong here if it's taking minutes to start up.)