Hi all, BibDesk has become very slow for me when creating new records, with a long wait (some seconds with the spinning rainbow disk) before text appears after I aim the cursor at, say, the author line and start typing. After this delay, what I have typed appears character by character.
On the other hand, BibDesk is not slow at creating a record when I copy and paste a BibTeX record from Google Scholar. Nor is it slow at finding existing records. I am familiar with the discussion of the same (?) phenomenon in February 2021, but it hasn’t helped me find a solution. The BibDesk file in which this is happening has 10k plus entries, many of them linked to a PDF. I have another BibDesk file with only 850 entries, and input behaviour here is normal, indicating that the slow input of the first file is indeed due to its size. I have monitored with Activity Monitor what happens when I am waiting during input. When the rainbow disk is spinning, BibDesk is using over 50% of CPU, so it is apparently doing something, but I don’t know what. When this is happening, no other app is using anything like the same amount of CPU, so external interference seems unlikely. Any advice would be gratefully received. I could split the 10k file into smaller files, but this would often be inconvenient to manage. I have used BibDesk for years, and it is part of my daily workflow, so this problem is a serious one for me. Malcolm Ross _______ Malcolm Ross FAHA Emeritus Professor Department of Linguistics, School of Culture, History and Language, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Coombs Building (Bldg No. 9), The Australian National University CANBERRA A.C.T. 2601, Australia _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
