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Originally Posted by theducks
Possibilities:
Your DB has grown
The book has lots of tags, authors?
Your HD is Fragmented
Your A/V is overly aggressive
A name (order) change means the file move (IIRC Calibre does not do a simple rename, but copies, then deletes the old)
Lots of other DB action if there are mucho tags
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Thanks Ducks - none of the above, unfortunately. DB is a few books weightier, no more. Only one tag per book. I maintain a very tight ship here in terms of defrags etc., and after being frustrated by slower Calibre generally with my slower laptop I have done everything suggested in the general Calibre thread. Swap FN/LN used to be lightning fast and therefore more than useful and used continually by me.
Example, today I modified 100 epubs with Modify epub, and timed it as it uses the same temp location procedure, and it did the job in a couple of minutes - no problem at all with that speed. To exchange Author FN/Last Name on the same books took 7.5 minutes. Unacceptably slow, especially as I change them back again after the modify epub. As I said to Grant I've been doing that forever and it has never been less than very quick.
There's definitely a problem with the plugin, as far as I can ascertain, in that, amongst other things, the dropdown menu remains dropped down - it used to go away once clicked as it does for all other Checks. My entire system gets sluggish while the process is working. It's not too bad with 3-5 books, so I've been doing that.