[OS X TeX] TeXShop 3.77 slow opening source files?

[Murray Eisenberg]

Sources are in a subfolder of ~/Documents (tree depth 3 and more down from there), but neither that nor Desktop is visible to iCloud (just files/settings associated with a few select apps: GarageBand, iBooks, Reminders, system Preferences.

There _is_ a symlink to ~/Documents in ~/Dropbox, but normally Dropbox is NOT open; I use it only infrequently. I also use iDrive, but without Continuous data protection or even scheduled backups —just on-demand. 

The external Time Machine drive is NOT normally mounted; I run Time Machine backup only on-demand.

I do use a 3rd-party anti-malware program, namely, Intego NetBarrier/VirusBarrier, but I see no difference in TeXShop file open speed with that disabled.

> On6 Mar 2017 12:38:36 -0800 "Richard M. Koch" <koch at uoregon.edu <mailto:koch at uoregon.edu>> wrote:
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> Do you keep sources on the desktop or documents folder, and are these visible to iCloud? If so,
> they are on Apple servers and could cause your problems.
> 
> Do you use Dropbox or some similar service?
> 
> Dick Koch
> 
>> On Mar 6, 2017, at 12:32 PM, Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenberg at gmail.com <mailto:murrayeisenberg at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>> (1) I have 7 mdworker processes, each showng 0.0% of CPU, with CPU times ranging from min of 0.04 to max of 4.82. Also 1 mdwrite, 09.9% and 0.33 time; and mdflagwriter, 0.05 and 0.23 time.
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>> (2) I have no NAS attached. Only volume mounted is the Mac HD (fusion drive) only 1/3 full.
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>> Machine is 4 GHz Core i7 with 32GB RAM. It?s normally quite snappy.
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>>> On 6 Mar 2017 10:33:09 -0600,Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com <mailto:herbs at wideopenwest.com> <mailto:herbs at wideopenwest.com <mailto:herbs at wideopenwest.com>>> wrote:
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>>>> On Mar 6, 2017, at 9:31 AM, Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenberg at gmail.com <mailto:murrayeisenberg at gmail.com> <mailto:murrayeisenberg at gmail.com <mailto:murrayeisenberg at gmail.com>>> wrote:
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>>>> Since updating TeXShop to version 3.77 (under macOS Sierra, 10.12.3), opening source files from the ?Open Recent? menu or opening a new source file (whether using the shortcut key or the File > Open > New menu item) takes from 2.5 to 3 seconds. This seems like an interminable delay compared to what I recall as a MUCH snappier performance with preceding versions. I _never_ recall seeing the ?spinning beach ball? before when opening a source file.
>>>> 
>>>> Has anybody else noticed this?  What could be the cause?
>>>> 
>>>> I have not seen any similar delay with other apps I frequently use, which open files essentially instantaneously.
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>>> 
>>> Hmmm... not seeing that here. It could be that the OS is rebuilding the meta-data database in the background; that takes a good deal of system time and seems to slow down everything else. Open Activity Monitor, sort by name and look for all the mdworker and other md applications to see if they are showing heavy activity.
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>>> Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2017 11:36:09 -0500
>>> From: "Gary L. Gray" <euler at psu.edu <mailto:euler at psu.edu> <mailto:euler at psu.edu <mailto:euler at psu.edu>>>
>>> 
>>> I have an NAS device at home and I noticed that, when one or more of its volumes are mounted, it can impact the speed of Open and Save dialogs, which may also impact opening recent files. Do you have any network storage devices attached?
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