New Zotero 5.0.72 very very slow to update and search

cmbarton · August 2, 2019

I've got the newest Zotero for Mac. It is weirdly working very very slowly. I have a large database (ca. 9000 entries). But Zotero has had no trouble handling this before.

With the newest version, it takes a long time to simply open and show references. When I try a search in the Zotero app, the little spinning wheel just spins and spins. It is equally slow when trying to add citations (I'm using the Google Doc connector at the moment).

I can't see any other report of this but it just started. Is it an update issue? A database issue (needs reindexing???). Any thoughts? It is making simple citation very difficult.

dstillman · August 2, 2019

First try restart your computer — it's possible something else is running that's slowing it down.

If it's still slow, can you provide a Debug ID for Zotero startup using the "Restart with Logging Enabled…" option?

agwilson27 · October 9, 2019

I'm having the same problem.

dstillman · October 9, 2019

We'd need the same info.

Anne-Kristinel · August 18, 2020

I have the same problem. What did you do to fix it?

dstillman · August 19, 2020

Anne-Kristinel: Please start a new thread with the information I requested above.