[Bibdesk-users] Upgrading

[FZiegler <fz...@kl...>]

Hello,

I’ve long been happily using BibDesk 1.5.6 on non-cutting edge systems such as Yosemite. After a recent forced upgrade to High Sierra (same MacBook Pro), the system flashed a warning that I better update BibDesk to an “optimized” version, which I take to mean compiled for 64-bit.

And indeed my 1.5.6 is slow as molasses, with just about any operation (even just switching to it) launching 15 seconds of beachball. No other programs do anything like this.  

I went and downloaded 1.7.4 (5123) which is 64-bit but... just as slow. As my 1.5.6 was, anyway, self-compiled with one line of code changed [1], I went and downloaded Xcode and updated to svn head and it compiles just fine, but the resulting 1.7.4 (5169) is just as slow. The only other non-standard thing I can think of in my setup is an AppleScript [2] in ~/Library/Application Support/BibDesk/Scripts; moving it out of the way does not improve the situation. My BibDesk file is rather large at 8.5 MB for 11,000+ entries, but that never caused problems before High Sierra.

I’m happy to run diagnostics if it can help you diagnose what I’m doing wrong. (It seems Sample.app no longer comes with the Xcode download?)

Thanks in advance,
Francois


[1] https://sourceforge.net/p/bibdesk/mailman/message/28421183/ <https://sourceforge.net/p/bibdesk/mailman/message/28421183/>
[2] https://sourceforge.net/p/bibdesk/mailman/message/28468841/ <https://sourceforge.net/p/bibdesk/mailman/message/28468841/>