EndNote 8.1 seriously slow on MacOS 10.13

Thanks but those folders are all with the app in my Applications folder and are not backed up to any cloud service. Right now nothing related to Endnote is backed up/synced to Dropbox yet the app slows down over time and becomes unusable (you know-the status quo these days with Endnote) until and unless I quit ENX8 and restart it. No other app, and I have apps that also are database-driven like Endnote, behaves this way.

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I have been using 8.2 and OS 10.13.4 and the performance is just getting slower with every entry. Yes the coloured ball appears all the time and scrolling through the entries takes for ever!!!

I have used old version not on a Mac with no issues.

Thanks. Moving all of the Styles to the EndNote subfolder in the Application folder also worked for me!

Does anyone have any other suggestions? 

I am running X8.2 with 10.13.4.

I have moved all folders off Dropbox and put them on the local drive. 

STILL PAINFULLY SLOW!

Yup. Me too. And having moved my libraries I now can’t sync with endnote Web. There is no way on a Mac to change the sync folder location in preferences. That field isn’t editable. Dumb. Really really dumb. I despise this crappy software.

I feel the same. I am test driving some other solutions. 

Best of luck. Keep us posted.

Okay, Zotero is WAY faster. Exported all of my EndNote entries (nearly 200). Get instructions from their website (export XML). Imported easily into Zotero. WOW! It seems lightning fast compared to EndNote.

Been thinking about it and now may try it out for sure. Thanks.

Just got off the phone with tech support. 

THEY SOLVED MY PROBLEM. 

Apparently, if you have PDFs in your database that CONTAIN ANNOTATIONS, this is causing the problem. 

I only had two PDFs.

When I removed them, problem solved. 

They are taking the issue up with Apple and are aware of it. 

In the meantime, delete your PDFs and it should help

Well none of my PDFs have annotations. Not a one. And EndNote has many issues with PDFs in general that they consistently blame on Apple but they never move forward with any solution of their own. The OS causes issues with most apps and the developers tend to fix whatever they can if Apple doesn’t have a solution. But EndNote: not so much. Blaming Apple, which has many faults, isn’t helping any of us. Find a workaround. Fix your code. But the solution isn’t to remove a feature (ie, including PDFs in one’s EN library). The solution is to fix the problem, period.

Tried Zotero. Yes, it imported everything from EndNote, including my PDFs, just fine. However, it can’t do a search of PubMed, which is something I need all the time. Also can’t find full text PDFs and download them so that’s also a nonstarter. But the lack of a PubMed search feature is the main issue for me at least. If I didn’t need that, then Zotero would likely fit the bill nicely.

That’s a bummer, on both fronts. I am going to use Zotero for this paper I am currently writing to have a complete understanding of its abilities. Will make a decision after that. It’s too bad that EndNote isn’t dealing with this.

Agreed. It is pretty shabby that they have not weighed in or made any real effort to solve the problem.

For me, it is possible to remedie this for a while, by closing the window first, and then the program.   I guess this forces the application to sort something. (My present library contains 737 references; EndNote X8.2, build 13.302; macOS High Sierra 10.13.4 )

For me, it is possible to remedie this for a while, by closing the window first, and then the program.   I guess this forces the application to sort something. (My present library contains 737 references; EndNote X8.2, build 13.302; macOS High Sierra 10.13.4 )

For me, it is possible to remedie this for a while, by closing the window first, and then the program.   I guess this forces the application to sort something. (My present library contains 737 references; EndNote X8.2, build 13.302; macOS High Sierra 10.13.4 )

The spinning wheel opens up every time I open endnote.
I force-quit it every time and when it opens again, the spinning wheel comes on as soon as I try to load a new reference or delete an old one. Please help!

I did some testing also on EndNote Z9: no improvement. All versions since ENX7 are very slow on my mac.

Unfortunately, EndNote 9 is still a 32-bit application.

I am afraid EN is slow not because there are problems with external drives, attached PDFs etc. Users write here that EndNote works better when the library is not on a network drive or if attachments are removed from the library. This does help a little, but EN gets slower the longer it is used. It can be slowed down very fast just by downloading a large number of references from external databases.

I am afraid the problem is associated with memory management when executing complex tasks. 

However, there is a truly magical trick: go back to a non-Retina screen. 

One of my collaborators keeps EndNote 8 on an old non-retina Macbook Air. It works very fast, even with attachments and with libraries kept in Dropbox. Apparently, one of big EndNote problems is associated with memory management when indexing PDFs, generating previews (even when no PDF preview is turned in, apparently, a hidden preview is generated), etc. — when dealing just with more memory to assign. Hopefully, moving to 64-bit could resolve problems with managing screen and preview data.

Marcin