Trouble with Zotero in word on a Mac for > 400 pages thesis

Nelswork

I have great difficulties with Zotero at this stage of my thesis. Most of the time it does not react at all any more.
I cannot update referencing styles (from APA to Harvard), add/ delete authors or update reference info.
Zotero simply doesn't react, I need to force quit or quit normally, start again, same problem.

dstillman

Mac Word is pretty slow, so most likely you just need to wait longer — e.g., in a very large document, it could take an hour to generate a full bibliography.

Make sure "Automatically update citations" is disabled in the plugin's Document Preferences window, which will allow regular citation inserts to be much faster.

Nelswork

Thanks!
I realise it takes an eternity, but the problem is that often it doesn't react at all or word doesn't respond, - I don't mind waiting, but this takes longer than hours - , which means I need to force quit and lose work.
Currently, zotero just ignores my attempt to refresh, nothing happens