Hi, maybe someone can help me deal with an issue or two. I'm a premium user and I've been an Evernote user for several years and I've become increasingly frustrated with it. The first problem goes back to not long after I started using it, this is now the 3rd computer that I've used it on, so I'm pretty sure that it's not my system. Especially since I get the same results on a new computer with a fresh install. The problem has been persistent, nearly anything that I do results in a "not responding" message. It's gotten so bad that I just leave it and check back in on it after about 5 minutes. Over the years, I've tried all the various sync settings to try and resolve this, but it hasn't made any noticeable changes at all, so I've just accepted it as it being the product. At this point, though, I realize that a large part of that problem is my own fault, because I've allowed the DB to get bloated with some 46,000 records, That's crazy for an individual as me, but I could understand a business having a DB that size, so I think that the product should be able to still function, regardless, but I need to cut this back to something more reasonable.
So this is my primary question: What I would like to do is to move this bloated file over to another computer and use it without an internet connection, just a stand alone all by itself, is that even possible? I find that too many products insist on having an internet connection to operate, but also, it might conflict with Evernote's licensing model, because if that is possible, then I would like to start fresh with a new DB on a box with the internet connection. That would mean that I have two installs, one live with an empty db, and the other bloated on a stand alone, is this even feasible?
If that isn't doable, though, I've also tried using the purge feature, but it doesn't seem to be operative. I'm a little leary of a full on test because I don't want to loose my data, My question is whether this will handle my bloat problem and still make my data available? Any other possible solutions? I'm not a happy camper.