insert citation slow in big papers
if have 100+ references (and i will soon have 500+ references in my thesis), then after adding a new citation into text i had to wait about 20 seconds before i could use Word again ...
Zotero has a similar problem, maybe even longer lag, but this really inhibits serious work
kristjan.laane
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Hi Adrian,
Thank you very much for take a look in the VBA code and send us a patch, we will maybe play with it.
We have different ideas how to speed up the plugin process and and we keep in mind your patch as well.
73 comments
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Anonymous
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i had to wait way longer... what is wrong with my mendeley?
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J W
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It's been almost 4 years since this issue was first posted -- although it's tagged 'under review' do you (Mendeley developers) have any intention to work on this? It really doesn't seem like a very difficult problem to fix, and it would make a difference for those of us who would like to use Mendeley for large manuscripts.
Personally, this issue alone is enough for me to stop using Mendeley in any substantial manuscript. I'm sure I'm not the only one who has already stopped using the plugin while I compose the text -- and only replace manual entries with inserted citations when I've got the patience to wait.
I like the application for managing and annotating PDFs - my complaint is specific to this particular plugin bug.
If the application was never intended for use in substantial papers (e.g. dissertations or large reviews), it may be fair to inform users from the start. (If such a note already exists, please point me towards it.)
I just need to be able to quickly enter a citation and have it displayed correctly immediately after it's been inserted.
Please fix this bug.
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Matthew Taylor commented
Mikael Is, thanks, that worked for me.
You have to add lots of spaces before the last line so it is indented the same as the others.Also, the citation will only say {Inserting} until you manually refresh, but this does mean you can insert a couple of citations before going though the arduous process of refreshing.
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mikael ls
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DISCLAIMER: A very quick and dirty solution that i dont recommend to anyone, as it will probably result in extreme and unforseen consequences.
It does however solve the problem and allows you to refresh only when you need it.
So I dont have any real python experience, but i fiddled around with it a bit, and i changed the following (line 1306 of the macWordPlugin.py file):
if action == "InsertCitation":
launchMendeleyIfNeeded()
if LinkDocumentAccount() and InsertCitation():
Refresh()into
if action == "InsertCitation":
launchMendeleyIfNeeded()
if LinkDocumentAccount():
InsertCitation()Im very much hoping that the team will look into this and perhaps make a solution that is a little more thorough, because it seems the only real problem is that the script calls the refresh routine everytime you insert a citation. Im guessing that there is a valid reason for this, but so far it doesnt seem to be neccessary.
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Nathan Dyck commented
There is really needs to be an option to insert a citation without updating the entire document.
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Heather
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OK - new record - FIFTEEN minutes to add a citation. Are you serious?? I am unsure if it crashes whether my references are all screwed up now. I have only 75 pages and 165 references and am worried I'll have to do them all over again because they are all mixed up. Come on guys...I know it's free, but I don't have a week to add my remaining references in...!
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dpleibovitz
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I have 800+ references in a MS Word document of over 1000 pages, and adding a references take ~30s. Yes it is slow. However, my speed seam to be faster than most. I have a PC with 8GB of memory, and I suspect the amount of memory makes a huge difference. It's not even a fast CPU, i7 Q840 @ 1.87GHz.. Yes I do await a fix, but can live with it for now.
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TessaB
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Yep same here. Waiting for over a min per citation and I only have 50 refs. Seems like a major flaw given that your software is aimed at academics, and they write large documents as a matter of course.
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Heather
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yes, I am currently waiting up to one minute per insertion...and I have a few hundred references. It is beyond tedious.
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Alexandre Rodrigues commented
so many comments and lo little votes... c'mon, vote!
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Fiona
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I have a really fast brand computer running Windows 7 and Office 2010 and still Endnote x5 is taking far too long to process even minor adjustments to referencing... and I am only trying to handle 50 references at this stage!! So frustrating! We really need a patch quickly!!
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Anonymous
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It was toooo slow, I'm using 1.3.2 version with word 2003, and 50 citations. It always occupy 50% of my mulicore CPU usage. It was quite annoying.... Can you make an option that when we insert an citation, we don't need calculate and refresh all the citations and biography simultaneously?
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maiatoday
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Aargh the lag is killing me! Please please is there a work around. I don't mind manually clicking the refresh button. Ubuntu, LibreOffice plugin.
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Robert
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I have to wait no up to two minutes. That is really terrible! Is it maybe possible to insert a citation without refreshing all the other citations and the bibliography?
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Robert
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I have the same Problem with Mendeley 1.3.1 and Word 2011 for Mac. In most cases I have to wait much longer then 20 seconds.
Please fix that!
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I've installed version 1.3 and although it seems to be faster, it still takes exactly 20 seconds to refresh a bibliography with 178 references.
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version 1.1.3 still takes too long... my thesis will soon crash. :S
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Philippe
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Hi Anonymous,
A reliable workaround solution to your problem would be to export your Mendeley library as an EndNote XML file. Download a 30-day trial version of EndNote X5 and use EndNote to manage your references in your manuscript. GIVE UP with MENDELEY as a citation manager, it is free but the recent versions are totally UNRELIABLE and the developping team lacks the skills to fixe bugs in a decent amount of time.
I know too many people that waste too much time with the Mendeley Plugin for Word. Use any decent citation mangager and come back to Mendeley when the current problems will be fixed!
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AdminRobert Knight
(Admin, Mendeley)
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Hello anonymous,
> I have already e-mailed the help team, and apart from a response
> requesting the actual document, I have not heard back from them.Did you send the actual document back? Diagnosing the problem may be difficult without it.
If you need a last minute option, you could try saving a copy of the document with the Mendeley citations/bibliography baked in using Export -> Without Mendeley Fields and then manually edit it.
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Anonymous
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I am also having this issue, which is a HUGE PROBLEM as I have a manuscript to revise and submit before Tuesday, and it's publication depends on the changes I make! I have already e-mailed the help team, and apart from a response requesting the actual document, I have not heard back from them.
New documents are fine, but i get the "Overflow in MendeleyPlugin" error message in the old document the editors of the journal I am submitting to have sent back to me. Also, if I try my own version I sent them (i.e. without their edits) I still get the same issue.
I know this is free, but if I had known there would be such serious issues at such a crucial time for me, I would happily have paid to buy a copy of end-note or something similar....
If anyone has found a solution to this problem, PLEASE help by posting it!!
