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Calibre slow on Mac (colour wheel on every move)
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I am running Calibre 5.8.1 on macOS 10.14.6 and I'm experiencing a laggy, spinning colour wheel problem. Whenever I try to scroll, select or point to any item in my library (of only 40 books), Calibre freezes for around 5 seconds and spins the colour wheel before being able to make a move. This happens no matter I'm connecting or not to any devices. It also occurs when I switch to another application (e.g. Firefox) and then switch back to Calibre. This problem began to happen a few updates back. So far I have been hoping that it would go away after some newer updates. I remember it has never been like this before updating to Calibre 5. I have already tried reinstalling Calibre but that unfortunately does not help. I also searched and crawled a few threads and tried using Disk Utility to repair my SSD but that hasn't done anything helpful either… ![]() Would very much appreciate any guidance on putting an end to this. Thanks in advance. |
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If you think its because of calibre 5, dwngrade to calibre 4.23 and see if the problem goes away.
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I first tried Library maintenance > Check library and applied all fixes and deletes. It didn't really help improve the situation. Then I tried downgrading to 4.23 but the problem unfortunately persists. I then backed the library, reinstalled it anew, and noticed that Calibre runs fast at the beginning. But as soon as I import back the library backup, it becomes slow again. In the end, I reinstalled Calibre and started a new library. I manually loaded all the books again. Now it is running smooth and fine. I realised in the library directory folder there is now a ‘metadata.opf’ that comes with the newly load files and books. It wasn't there before in the directory with any of the books I had from the old library. Not sure if that was a cause to the problem I experienced. |
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