That sounds strange, as typing isn’t committed continuously, only when it is committed after typing. I have no idea what would slow it down in your case, it cannot be the typing. Perhaps you can take a sample using Activity Monitor while this is happening (select Bibdesk in AM, and hit View > Sample Process), and send it to me off list.
Christiaan > On 31 Aug 2021, at 16:51, Malcolm Ross <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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
