Scriv 3 beta runs super slow

[rwfranz]

@ForgottenGold

i7 3.70GHz, 16gb ram, solid state SSD, Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1080. Can’t remember the exact speed of the RAM or the SSD but they’re enough to run populated MMOs smoothly.

My Macbook with 4gb of ram, i5 1.3GHz processor ran this project perfectly. It’s a file converted from Scriv 2 on Macbook to a Scriv 3 file. This might be the issue, I don’t know. I think I looked up if I could open the Mac Scriv 3 file on Win and given I did it I’m assuming the answer was yes.

The file is 233MB and contains roughly 440,000 words, but I don’t know how many files or how to find out how many files.

Likely not hardware.

1. Dropbox sync should be turned OFF while editing.

2. Read this thread about flat organization: [url]Speed with lots of documents]. Divide your project into chapters, even artificial ones, and Scriv will work faster.

3. Reduce your document size. It gets slow at some limit, which depends on hardware. On my machine, it’s about 10k words per document.

4. And, frankly, the conversion process in Scrivener isn’t as clean as it should be. Some conversions create files the Beta does not like. So whenever I convert a file, I copy its contents to a new project created in the Beta. This removes most of the issues the conversion can create (which include slow response times).

Hope that helps.