Samuel Wales <samolog...@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
