Notes app lagging

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Notes app lagging

Dear community,

I noticed that my Notes app started to become laggy and draining my CPU. I guess it has to do with the iCloud sync since the "network activity" wheel in the sidebar keeps spinning and spinning sometimes, without big or any changes to notes at all. When I click into a note then, there is a lag of several seconds until I can type.

I am on a 15" mid-2010 MacBook Pro running macOS High Sierra and have about 300 notes, which were no problem up until recently.

Anybody else experiencing this? I tried deactivating the iCloud notes account so it had to freshly download all notes again, but no luck.

MacBook Pro

Posted on Jan 10, 2019 3:29 AM

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silvann Author

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Jan 10, 2019 11:18 AM in response to BDAqua

In fact there were error messages: the database file (NoteStore.sqlite) was corrupt and could not be read. I disabled the iCloud's notes account again, deleted the corrupted sqlite file (with the notes app closed of course), activated iCloud's notes account again and now everything works like charm.

Thank you so much for your answer—I always forget about the console!

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BDAqua

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Jan 10, 2019 10:50 AM in response to silvann

Open Console in Applications>Utilities & see if there are any clues or repeating messages when this happens.

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silvann Author

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Jan 10, 2019 11:20 AM in response to silvann

Just to add if somebody has the same problem and wants to try deleting the database: only do this if all your notes are backed up / synced via iCloud or an other online account. Your local notes would be lost in this process!

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BDAqua

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Jan 10, 2019 11:20 AM in response to silvann

Great news, good work on your part too! :)

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