Scrivener Hangs on every input?

Very new to Scrivener, but it has been working beautifully. However, beginning yesterday, when I open my project and start to work, it hangs (Little spinning wheel) on nearly every single edit or input I make. It hangs for anywhere from 15 - 30 seconds, then allows me to start working again.

In the last 2 hours, I bet I have done 15 minutes of actual work/writing…

Any ideas as to what could cause this? I have searched through the forums, but cannot find much on this type of situation. (However my search skills may not be up to par, so for that I apologize…)

Have you restarted your Mac?

Thank You, but yes, multiple times…

… and deleted and re-installed the Scrivener app?

That I have not tried… Was hoping to avoid having to do so, but I’m afraid that is my next step.

Thank You, appreciate the assistance!

If the problem appears to be project-specific, it might be some data was imported—perhaps a picture into an editor—that is problematic and giving the text engine some trouble. Since you mention it only started yesterday, one thing you could try mainly as a diagnostic step is to restore a copy of your project from before this started, and see if the problems persist there as well. Backups can be most easily located by clicking on the button to open a backup folder, in the Backup preference pane.

Thank you all, I think I found the issue…

I had synced 1,000’s of pictures & Videos from Dropbox account with my MacBook Air and consumed nearly all of my Free Disk space. Once I changed my Sync settings, removed the vids/pics and free’d up space, Scrivener started working normally again…

That would do it! Glad to hear things are running smoothly again.