Hi folks, running Scriv on my 3.2 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i7 (2018) is all good apart from contextual menu dropdowns which are taking literally 5 seconds to appear. I’ve tried all the tips from the same problems noted on these forums from over 10 years ago regarding disabling services etc. Thing is, I don’t get this lag with any other software and the contextual menu appears almost instantly when right clicking text in any other app be it Pages, Safari, Chrome etc etc.
If this were me, my first step would be to restart Scrivener, and then second step would be to re-boot the machine. If that didn’t resolve what you see, then the third step I’d look at the list of processes in “Activity Monitor” app to see if something is hogging CPU and/or memory.
I made it a bit better by turning off anything Siri related, anything dictation related and all keyboard accessibility features. Funnily enough it’s now instant in Scrivener when I right click on blank space but there’s a slight pause if I have a word selected. It’s the looking up of things that slows it down.
It’s not a CPU thing, I think it’s more of a disk access thing and as it’s an old machine running the latest OS 15.5 there could be something in Scrivener that’s not looking up quickly enough. As I’ve been typing this I’ve been hilghlighting and right clicking words from our conversation and it’s instantaneous. Something in Scrivener seems to be slowing down the dictionary lookup. It’s not spellcheck or grammar ‘cos I always have those turned off when writing as they drive me mad.
As you probably found in the older threads, the Share submenu was often the culprit. So in addition to paring down Services only to what you need, I would so the same for the Share menu extensions. I’d start with everything disabled[1], see if that clears the problem, and then if it does, gradually add back what you really do want to use.
