I am working on a long document (215MB), but in the 2 weeks or so I was using the previous (2.0?) version of Scrivener, I didn’t notice it being as slow as it is with the new version. Since I updated this AM, I regularly get a 5 second beach ball pauses almost any time I add or delete something, or select some text or graphic to move.
Is there some option I can turn off to speed things up?
Thanks.
There have been no changes in 2.0.1 that would cause extra slowdown. With a project of 215MB, it will take a few seconds to save, so my guess is that the beach ball occurs either when you hit cmd-S or Save, or when the auto-save kicks in (which happens after two seconds of inactivity by default - you can extend that time via the General pane of the Preferences).
My guess is that this has nothing to do with 2.0.1 and more to do with the expansion of your project size.
All the best,
Keith
Thanks Keith. I bumped it up to 20 seconds and no more beach balls.
Are you saving to a networked drive, over a wireless network, or perhaps onto an old flash thumb drive? This can slow down saving quite a bit.
I was getting a lot of that till verified permissions (for the OS in general, not just Scriv) and subsequently ended up reinstalling Snow Leopard. It’s fine now.