Fantastic, that did it!

Than you soooo much, for this and BibDesk and your always amazing responses.

All best,
Francois


> On Mar 2, 2020, at 9:53 AM, Christiaan Hofman <cmhof...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> On 2 Mar 2020, at 15:25, FZiegler <fz.2...@klacto.net 
>> <mailto:fz.2...@klacto.net>> wrote:
>> 
>> I just remembered that sampling is now done in Activity Monitor.app, and got 
>> this enormous sample:
>> 
>> http://www.klacto.net/Sample.txt <http://www.klacto.net/Sample.txt>
>> 
>> (The only thing I do in these 3 seconds is click on BibDesk’s dock icon to 
>> switch to it.)
>> 
>>> On Mar 2, 2020, at 8:57 AM, FZiegler <fz.2...@klacto.net 
>>> <mailto:fz.2...@klacto.net>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 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/>
>>>  
> 
> 
> 
> Th slowdown seems to be related to getting the file icons in the (main?) 
> table. It looks like it\s happening in Launch Services. Perhaps there is a 
> problem with your LS database. That may be related to the upgrade of your 
> system. Perhaps this can be fixed by resetting your LS database, which yup 
> can do with the following command:
> 
> /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister
>  -kill -r -all local,user,system
> 
> If that does not work, you can also try and remove the file columns from the 
> table as a workaround.
> 
> Christiaan
> 
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