Dear Simon, This is now more of a feeling than anything else and I might be totally wrong. But what you describe now sounds to me like a particular system setup problem.
As a first step towards nailing it down, why do you not boot your Mac into safe mode (Start up your Mac in safe mode - Apple Support<https://support.apple.com/en-ph/guide/mac-help/mh21245/11.0/mac/11.0>) and check out whether the problem is gone or not. If yes, this means it is your system setup and not BibDesk. Regards, Andreas On 03/02/2021, at 13:48, Simon Spiegel <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: On 3 Feb 2021, at 12:00, Fischlin Andreas <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Dear all, I almost daily work with a large bib file that contains currently 5347 entries, admitted this is only half the size of Simon's. I see no such obvious delay during regular work. I notice for certain AppleScripts, e.g. I have one searching for duplicates after an import, that has become a bit slow with the growing size of the bib file. But that is rather due to the nature of that particular algorithm, I have chosen to use than a fault of BibDesk. I would look out for what activity triggers slow responses, what user events etc. I cannot confirm that BibDesk has noticeably slowed down in general only because of large bib files. I was first also worried about the growing size of my default bib file and was always positively surprised how fast BibDesk generally still behaves. As always, once you try to nail it down, it suddenly stops. Seriously, it’s definitely a thing, but I don’t see a pattern. It seems to happen often when I’m in a different application, say a browser, copy something there and then switch to BibDesk to paste it into a field. Then I will often get considerable lags – though not always, and it also happens in other situations. I am no programmer, so maybe this is all wrong, but it seems to me, although 9000 entries is quite a number, it’s really nothing in terms of memory. The .bib file is something over 9mb, and according to Activity Monitor, BibDesk uses ~410mb of memory, which isn’t a lot compared to many other common programs. Simon-- Simon Spiegel Maneggplatz 18 8041 Zürich Telephon: ++41 44 451 5334 Mobophon: ++41 76 459 6039 http://www.simifilm.ch http://www.utopia2016.ch „This too shall pass.“ Tom Hanks _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
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