Re: archiving speed [was Re: Tips on maintaining history in Org Mode]

[Samuel Wales]

thanks for the clarification.  are you saying that, for every archived
entry, it calculates teh category property, using the original org
file, in order to add a category property to just one archived entry?

that would certainly slow down more and more, but it sends me back to
my question about whether append to file would work.
i.e. build the single entry in a temporary buffer then write that
region to a file on disk.

On 8/10/21, Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com> wrote:
> Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> i should clarify.  bulk archiving slows down even with /nonexistent/
>> (have not tried empty) archives.  as part of normal and expected
>> operation, bulk creates the archive for the first entry, and then
>> subsequent entries are added.  those get slower and slower.
>
> That's what I suspected. I also see this and my suggestion helped
> archiving speed in my case.
>
>> i use (olpath category itags).  i will try (file time) when i can, if
>> that still applies.  my brain needs to be more operational.
>
> When you use category, every time you modify the original file (not the
> archive!), Org mode re-calculates *all* the categories in the original
> Org file. It happens for every single archived heading. If your original
> Org file is large, re-calculations make things extremely slow.
>
> Best,
> Ihor
>


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