Hi, New User (paid) here. I am on a beefy M4 Mac Mini Pro with 48gb of RAM. I’ve loaded up Eaglefiler with a LOT of archived email: ~150gb. The app is impossibly slow. Just typing into the search box is painful with a lot of keyboard stutter. Everything is slow to the point of being unusable. I assume this is a Rosetta problem. Searching email on a native email (Apple Mail, for instance) with similar amounts of email is fine. If you need a beta tester for the Apple Silicon version of EagleFiler, sign me up!
I will contact you when there’s a beta version. However, I very much doubt this is a Rosetta issue. Searching speed is primarily determined by how long it takes to read the search index from disk. Normally, this is much faster than searching Mail or Spotlight because it’s only searching the EagleFiler indexes, not everything on your Mac. However, depending on how things are set up there may be overhead in other areas.
- Is anything shown in the Activity window?
- How many messages are there?
- Are they imported as
.emlmessages files or as mbox mailbox files? - What do you have selected in the sidebar?
- You can use
SendsWholeSearchStringin the esoteric preferences to make it wait until you press Return to start searching if you find that it’s slow because it’s updating the search as you type each letter. - You can record a sample of EagleFiler during the slowness to see what’s bogging it down.
Thanks for the fast reply Michael. Nothing in the EagleFiler Activity Window. The emails were imported as three large Mbox files. I have “Records” selected on the left side panel. I’ll give “SendsWholeSearchString" a try. Thank you. Two additional items: The Library is encrypted, which probably isn’t helping speed. The Library is located on an external (fast) 8TB SSD.
(I just tested my external SSD drive to rule that out of the slowness equation. It’s a TB4 8tb drive…and I’m getting read/write speeds of about 3500mbps… so zippy)
Did you try SendsWholeSearchString or record a sample, as mentioned above?