Endnote X8 slowness problem ("lagging")

Same issue here - I don’t have any PDFs attached, because I never trusted Endnote to perform as well with attachements than without. But still it laggs horribly!

Cleaning up the Term Lists had no effect.

Additionaly, I have noticed two minor issues that may be connected to the slowness problem:

  • Almost everytime I start Endnote, an error message appears, saying: “This library is currently being used by someone else.  Try opening it again later”. When hitting the OK button, the application starts nevertheless.

  • References marked as read appear as unread when opening Endnote an other time

Library Name: 1-Diss-Bibliographie-2018-01-06.enl
Location: /Users/Eckstein/Documents/SUGUS/Publikationen/Dissertation/1-Diss-Bibliographie-2018-01-06.enl
Last Saved: Samstag, 6. Januar 2018 um 09:52:54 Mitteleuropäische Normalzeit
Records: 1’065
Custom Groups: 25
Reference Types Used: 17
Most Used ref. types: Journal Article, Book Section, Book, Web Page, Generic
File Attachments: 0
Figures: 0
Authors Term List: 0
Journals Term List: 0
Keywords Term List: 0