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rlyoung04

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    I'd just like to reiterate that upgrading to a solid state hard drive worked wonders for me regarding this issue.  I know EdH shot down the idea because his hybrid drive showed no improvement but I now have 20,000 notes, all multi page pdf and multi photo jpg notes (19.9GB database) and Evernote Windows very rarely hangs on me.  I went from freezing every single day for minutes at a time to getting maybe 2 freezes a month for only a few seconds each.  Not sure why it would work for some and not others, maybe the difference in transfer rates between different drives.  Not all SSDs are created equal.

     

    Nope.

     

    I've had a 20GB Evernote database with 25,000+ notes on an SSD, a hybrid drive, and a HDD. Same thing. Same infernal lockups. Now I am no longer using a "business plan" and my database is 7GB or so with 15,000 notes, and it still does the same thing. It freezed on me daily, and this machine is a new install of EN just a few months ago.

     

    So, glad it worked for you. I have equally compelling anecdotal evidence that it isn't the cure.

    What would fix it, IMHO, is to destroy the current EN database in Windows and do what they do on the Mac - every note is a separate file. No more messing around internally in a 20GB file. Just messing with the note or notes you use of a few KB to a few MB. My 2015 Macbook (you know, the one that has a 1.1GHz to 1.3GHz processor?) absolutely ran circles around my WIndows laptop with a 2.7GHz four core i7 mobile processor with a hybrid drive. My new work machine is much lighter weight, 3.1GHz i5 Dell beige box.

     

     

    I never said it was the cure, just trying to offer ideas and help people out.  Others on this thread recommended it, I tried it, it worked.

  2. I'd just like to reiterate that upgrading to a solid state hard drive worked wonders for me regarding this issue.  I know EdH shot down the idea because his hybrid drive showed no improvement but I now have 20,000 notes, all multi page pdf and multi photo jpg notes (19.9GB database) and Evernote Windows very rarely hangs on me.  I went from freezing every single day for minutes at a time to getting maybe 2 freezes a month for only a few seconds each.  Not sure why it would work for some and not others, maybe the difference in transfer rates between different drives.  Not all SSDs are created equal.

  3. I'd like to offer an update on my situation here. In the past month i upgraded my pc from a 2.3ghz core2duo with mechanical hd to a 3.2ghz Core i5 with solid state hd. RAM stayed the same. After the initial sync which took a long time (13,000 notes, mostly pdf and jpg), I've found i no longer suffer from screen freezes and "not responding" issues. Not once.

    I rely on Evernote heavily and on a daily basis. In the past i had to turn off auto sync because it would freeze in the middle of a work call when I'd be taking notes or searching for information. Since upgrading my hardware i haven't had an issue. I can auto sync every 30 minutes without fear.

    I can't say for sure which upgrade solved the issue for me, the processor or the ssd, most likely a combination of the two. I can say that a ssd is a much cheaper and easier upgrade than a cpu.

    I realize this isn't an option for everybody but if you're wondering if a hardware upgrade will improve usability, in my experience it does.

  4. rlyoung04 Did you figure out how to optimize the database?

    Once in debug mode (Run / evernote.exe /debugmenu ), hold the ctrl key + click on the 'Help' menu. 

    You should find 'optimize the database' on the help menu

     

     

    Thanks, northxnortheast, with your help I was able to optimize the database.  Not sure if this actually improved anything, the test being how well Evernote keeps up with my workflow.  Time will tell...

  5. I'm having the same problem with Evernote "Not Responding" in Windows 7.  I annotate my business calls in Evernote but I've learned to keep a pen and pad handy for these frustrating situations.

     

    I've started Evernote with the [Debug] menu however it doesn't show an option for "Optimize Database."  The options I show are:

     

    Test Feature

    Walk Message Boxes

    Recreate Note Images

    Recreate Note Snippets

    Fix Business Tags

     

    I'm using version 5.6.4.4632, the latest version as of today.  Am I missing something?  Is there another way to optimize the database?

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