Upgrade StorageSlowness on High Sierra
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It might well have multiple causes - I was just browsing about this and found lots of people have decreased graphics performance after sleep of High Sierra (as I have, too).
But other symptoms are:
* Create an item from Webpage (with Snapshot) from Chrome or Firefox: Snapshot fails and after this, Zotero is constantly eating about 102% of CPU as displayed in Activity monitor.
* press Command+V to paste something and get a spinning beach-ball for about 2 to 5 seconds on Zotero before the text finally is in the field.
* Press Command+C to experience the same waiting time and beach-ball.
'Debug ID D294170838'
Interestingly the same spinning beach-ball and waiting time happened when I pressed Command+C after Selecting this text in the Debug Output window.
When the App is so slow, its really hard to use it ... :-)
Maybe this has to do with some Firefox-ish things inside of Zotero? I am thinking this because Firefox also got extremely slow to use. Most of the slowness happens when working with text, using the clipboard or moving the cursor.
Performance was not a problem on this Macbook until I made a clean install of High Sierra. Before that Chrome was slower than the new Firefox.
Maybe that is the biggest problem!? :-)
For reference: Macbook 2012, 16GB RAM, 500GB SSD
For the Snapshot of the web page, it turns out, it was only this site. I didn't do this often the weeks before so I only now found out that its working great with most other sites.
http://www.euronews.com/2016/01/25/cradle-to-cradle-powering-europe-s-circular-economy
As for the spinning beach ball - should I post to this thread or here?
Greetings