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But...but...isn't W10 spyware...??

I've got ~10K notes, so you're managing 45K without issues gives me hope. Thank you for the tweak suggestions - I will try them and see how it goes. Beyond that, I may add an SSD to the list of upgrades my machine needs (I like this machine's screen size and Bang & Olafsen speakers, and since I'm on Windows 8, hopefully Microsoft won't force me into Windows 10 for a while yet). Cheers.

I appreciate your understanding. I hoped I could do some things on my end without having to bug Support, they're busy enough as it is. But yeah, I may go that route if my current set up doesn't improve performance. Cheers.

Re: disk, I've got a HDD, not SSD on an Asus laptop with 12GB RAM. I'm using v6.22.3.8816 (08816) Public (CE Build ce-62.6.10954). My EXB file is 6.13GB Re: rebuild time, after a quick "fix all notes", I clicked on "Optimize database", a progress bar appeared, and it took all day (from some time in the morning through till some time in the evening) to complete. Then Evernote was in not responding mode indefinitely...at some point after at least a half hour, I shut down the machine, rebooted, restarted Evernote, "not responding" was back like Jason Voorhees...shut it down again, restarted again...and now, it appears to be running crisply. Started faster than I've ever seen it start before. Now I'm trying to do a search. I start typing into the search field...not responding. I force close the app, try to start it again, now it won't even start. Previously, I would have to restart machine in order to restart Evernote, but I've since realized I can invoke the Task Manager and close the Evernote processes that were still running even though the app had been shut down - this allowed me to resart Evernote. One thing I'm now trying that appears to be helping (as in the last 20 minutes) ...I've turned off both Snippet View as well as Note Panel - there are no longer any images being served in my main list. Sucks that I'm paying for a service and can't enjoy its full functionality, but I need the stability.

I've reinstalled my then current version searched activity logs for "errors" and "failures" (there were none. Not one, through over 140 pages of activity logs) upgraded to the latest version rebuilt the database (took nine hours. Yeah, nine of them). Yet still, after all of this, every time I touch Evernote for Windows, I'm banished to not responding hell. WTF? This thing is pretty much useless. WHY? Evernote for Android, no problems. Evernote web version in a browser, no problems. I would love to just stick with my phone app and the web version, while ripping Evernote for Windows off my machine and never, ever, trying to run it again. Ever. But there are tasks that can ONLY be done in a desktop app, like exporting notes/notebooks, encryption (such as it is), etc...and that is what is most frustrating. I'm beholden to using this piece of *****, but it just refuses to work for me. This is about the point when I should cue all the people who're going to say "works fine on my machine." And that's terrific, except I don't use your machine. This entire, ongoing lack of functionality is utterly depressing. What ELSE can I try to rectify this? Is there ANYTHING I can do?

Trying to add a comment at the top of a web clipping is a mess, the formatting is almost never clean, nor does the remove formatting thing work very well. It'd be extremely helpful to include the remarks field that was/will soon again be in the Chrome Web Clipper to Web Clipper for Android. Being able to annotate/comment on a clipping in real time while the thought is fresh is very helpful and increases the usefulness of the clipping specifically, and Evernote in general.

Am I getting the correct impression that Evernote is essentially saying "Hey users, we heard you, and yes, you can now share stacks of notebooks! Welcome to Spaces!"

Hmm...interesting question! I'd probably not want attachments to be editable within Evernote. I think I'd rather edit some document closer to its original source, and just update a copy to Evernote if need be. But, that's just me.

I believe find/replace within one note is currently available in Evernote for Windows. But a global find/replace engine? To be able to run find/replace - for all notes; or - all notes in this/these selected notebooks; or - all notes with this/these selected tags; Now, that would be awesome. C'mon, Evernote. It can be done.

Good question! Here's my issue with this - if you fully clip a web article, there's no clear space above it where you can type a comment without it being messed up by the formatting of the article heading. But, on my laptop, I use the Web Clipper that does provide comment functionality during the clipping, and inserts that entered data at the top, separate from the article font/formatting. For a clean, consistent look, I create a "MyHighlights" section, separate and above the clipped article, in which I annotate the note with key quotes from the article, any comments I want to add towards a conversation, and links to other articles in my Evernote. Most of this is towards the curation of an open, published notebook I call TheIceberg, which shares more of the background/sources behind a tweet or online comment I make that is usually just "the tip of..."

When I'm on my computer, and I want to clip a web page using Web Clipper extension for Chrome browser, there's a spot to enter comments that will show up above the clipped content, which also (correctly) means above the formatting of the web page content. When I clip while on my Android phone (by sharing to Evernote in smartphone Chrome browser), while there's the option to add tags and select the notebook, there's no opportunity to add comments. I've developed a workaround, but it'd be much slicker/easier/faster if the opportunity to add comments while on my smartphone was just as it is for the Web Clipper add-on in my Chrome desktop browser. Some may be wondering what my workaround is - I clip the page without the entire article and use a tag called "ClipThis"; later, on my laptop, I'll clip the whole article, add my comments, and afterwards delete the previous content-less clipping. Functional, but not very elegant.

"Duly noted" is great...but when is it going to happen? (for all platforms).