Northriver Posted September 29, 2016 Share Posted September 29, 2016 How many bonus and MFG catalogs do you have loaded. The reason I am asking is I did a search this morning and after about 1 minute of finding nothing my computer crashed. I got carried away and loaded 95% of the catalogs available.Since I have SSA and can get access anytime I need something, I am going to dump most of my MFG libraries as well as the bonus catalogs I don't think I would ever use to see if this helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DRAWZILLA Posted September 29, 2016 Share Posted September 29, 2016 I only load the manufacturer catalog's I need, but I do have most of the bonus catalog's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christina_Girerd Posted September 29, 2016 Share Posted September 29, 2016 I knew I had a lot, but hadn't counted before. I have 125 bonus catalogs and 54 manufacturer catalogs! They need cleaning out. For example, I noticed I have a Therma-Tru catalog, as well as a Therma-Tru 2009 catalog. They look basically similar, but I'm not sure which is more recent. I also have a lot of User catalogs, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard_Morrison Posted October 1, 2016 Share Posted October 1, 2016 I'm not sure that having lots of libraries is necessarily an issue. I noticed on a recent webcast that Dan Bauman had a huge library. I'd love to hear from Chief about the downsides to library bloat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidJPotter Posted October 1, 2016 Share Posted October 1, 2016 Having a huge amount of content, including core, bonus and a lot of user content that I have collected over the years since I started using Chief (1995) does slow down a Library Browser "Search" but that has never caused a crash or other negative side effects. I would first look at my PC hardware and its proper maintenance or lack thereof as a weak point before I started blaming Chief. DJP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lbuttery Posted October 1, 2016 Share Posted October 1, 2016 around X4 I had every CA library plus a user library of 40,000 items no issues running since I have retired I no longer use that user library and only have the basic CA libraries in use Lew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ComputerMaster86 Posted October 2, 2016 Share Posted October 2, 2016 I have downloaded and imported just about every library CA has on their web site. Although I sometimes have to wait a couple seconds for the libraries and items to load, I have yet to have any major issues. I never had my computer or software crash as a result of the library. I have about 160 bonus libraries and 106 manufacturer libraries currently added to Chief. Having all those loaded inside Chief is probably not necessary but, I never know when I might stumble upon something useful I can add to my plans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DRAWZILLA Posted October 2, 2016 Share Posted October 2, 2016 You can also use the lib. filter to just show what you want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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