I beg to differ. This is not “normal” – I do not see this problem even in long documents. This is often a consequence of migration from one version of word or endnote to an update, and I find unformating and reformating is enough to fix the problem. On occassion, I need to unfomat to temporary citations, clean up field codes and reformat. I do turn off the hyperlinking though.
Leanne, what do you mean? When you insert a citation and hav instant formatting turned on, it always takes quite a bit until everything is done, it scans the whole document, reformats everything, updates the bibliography, all that. How long does it take on your machine? (And at how many citations?)
In my current document, it takes 35 seconds until all progress bar popups are gone. This is at 452 citations on something like a 100 pages or so.
Not normal?
I have students writing 200 page thesis with over 200 citations. – do you have track changes on? and are there lots of them? mine kids have+ images, table of conents, figure legends (inserted with word, not endnote) etc etc. Most are using word 2010 and X7 -but some are on Macs – but will try on my husbands 2013 machine if you like…
Well no, if it’s too much hassle, then don’t. I was just asking because you were saying it’s not normal. It does take a long time, but then again, it’s ok because you can just turn instant formatting off. In Mendeley, you can’t, and this simply makes the application un-usable after something like 25 citations, in other words, for anything longer than a quick paper.
I have track changes turned on, yes, but it wouldn’t make much sense to turn it off, right? I mean, when I update, I want to update, not to semi-sort-of-partly update.
My EndNote X6 used to work fine, but in the last few days or last week, it’s been so slow I want to drop it. My specs are: Win 7 Pro x64 / 8 GB RAM / dual-core i5 / Office 2013.
When I enter a new title, it takes from 1.5 to 2 seconds for the letters or numbers to appear. Same thing if I want to back delete. I followed all the tips given in this thread, but nothing worked. Any new ideas?
Thanks.
If you are using Word, have you tried this one?
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I tried all the solutions listed in this Forum and none worked. I have EndNote X6 running on a Lenovo X240, Windows 7, with Intel i5vPro (one of the latest models from Lenovo). X6 is slow even when it is running by itself. Typing a reference is a pain, since the system does not keep pace with the typing. Searching a basic library (about 1000 items, no files) takes many seconds. Previous versions of EndNote running on simpler machines were way better than this.
Any advice? As I mentioned, the slowness is independent of MS Office.
Claudio
How many styles do you have loaded?
The drop-down menu of the library shows about 15 styles (I guess this is the meaning of “loaded”, right?).
Claudio
I did some further testing. When my main library (1192 records) is opened, EndNote alone is consuming about 25% of the CPU.
Then I close my library, the CPU went to 0%. When creating a new library with 0 records, the CPU went to 25% again and stayed there. And not much I/O to the disk, it is pure CPU.
I am running EndNote X6.0.1 (Bld 6599).
Thanks.
Hello Pinhanez,
I can’t help but notice that you indicate that your software is EndNote X6.0.1.
However, a fully updated copy of EndNote X6 would actually be EndNote X6.0.2.
You can find the update needed to bring your copy to EndNote X6.0.2 here…
http://endnote.com/downloads/available-updates
Does bringing yourself to the most current version of EndNote X6 help?
Please let us know.
Thanks!
Steve
End, oddly enough, CPU usage goes down to 0% when I open any top bar menu item(if a library is open), and goes up again when I close the menu.
In your link I could only find X6.0.1 for Windows. There is no version 6.0.2 for Windows listed there. I also tried to use the EndNote updates link from the Help menu and it returned that my current version is the latest.
Claudio
I’m terribly sorry, Claudio.
I do not know why I thought you were using a Macintosh.
Have you tried the Trial version of EndNote X7, to see if it behaves in the same fashion?
Are you currently in the process of Synchronizing the library when this is happening?
If you choose to Sync your library to the online service, then by default it is going to run a sync when you open, close, and periodically while the library is open, which could certainly contribute to this issue.
Please let us know.
Thanks!
Steve