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These are your two most expensive collections, which take over 20s each to evaluate:

Author:("Alexander, Eric J.", "Alexander, Thomas", "Arnot, William", "Balfour, John Hutton", "Balfour, Robert G.", "Bannerman, James", "Barclay, William", "Barr, George K.", "Best, Ernest", "Binnie, William", "Binning, Hugh", "Black, Matthew", "Bonar, Andrew A.", "Bonar, Horatius", "Boston, Thomas", "Brown, David", "Brown, John", "Bruce, Alexander Balmain", "Bruce, John", "Buchanan, James", "Buchanan, Robert", "Calderwood, Henry", "Cameron, D. B.", "Campbell, Colin", "Campbell, Iain D.", "Candlish, James S.", "Candlish, Robert S.", "Carrick, J. C.", "Chalmers, Thomas", "Crawford, Thomas J.", "Cumming, John", "Cunningham, William", "Cunninghame, William", "Davidson, A. B.", "Davidson, Alexander D.", "Davidson, Peter", "Davidson, Robert", "Denney, James", "Dickson, David", "Dods, Marcus", "Douglas, George C. M.", "Dunlop, R. V.", "Eadie, John", "Easton, Matthew George", "Fairbairn, Patrick", "Fergusson, David", "Ferme, Charles", "Foote, James", "Forbes, John", "Fraser, James", "Galloway, Kathy", "Gillies, J. R.", "Gloag, Paton J.", "Grant, Maurice", "Guthrie, Thomas", "Hamilton, James", "Hastings, James", "Hutchison, John", "Jack, Alison", "Johnstone, Robert", "Keith, Alexander", "Kelly, Ewan", "Kistler, Don", "Knox, John", "Lang, John Marshall", "Laurie, Simon Somerville", "Law, Robert", "Lawson, George", "Leighton, Robert", "Lindsay, Thomas M.", "Lindsay, William", "Lyall, David", "M’Crie, Thomas", "MacDonald, Donald", "MacDougall, John", "MacKay, John L.", "Mackintosh, H. R.", "MacKnight, James", "MacLeod, Donald", "MacPherson, John", "Marriage, Sophia", "Martin, Hugh", "May, Alistair S.", "McCheyne, Robert Murray", "McKane, William", "Moffatt, James", "Nicoll, W. Robertson", "Orr, James", "Patterson, Alexander S.", "Paul, William", "Philip, William", "Provan, Iain W.", "Pulsford, John", "Raleigh, Alexander", "Re’emi, S. Paul", "Riggans, Walter", "Robertson, A. Irvine", "Robertson, David A", "Rutherford, Samuel", "Salmond, Stewart D. F.", "Skinner, John", "Smeaton, George", "Smith, George Adam", "Smith, William Robertson", "St. George’s Free Church", "Stalker, James", "Stuart, A. Moody", "Symington, William", "Taylor, William M.", "Thomson, Andrew (Broughton)", "Thomson, James", "Thomson, W. R.", "Torrance, David W.", "Torrance, Thomas F.", "Wells, James", "Whitelaw, Thomas", "Whyte, Alexander", "Wilson, Alistair", "Wylie, J. A.")

Author:("Abbott, Edwin A.", "Abbott, T. K.", "Abbott-Smith, G.", "Ackroyd, Peter R.", "Adam, Thomas", "Adams, H. C.", "Adams, Thomas", "Ainger, Thomas", "Ainsworth-Smith, Ian", "Airay, Henry", "Alexander, William Henry", "Alford, Henry", "Allain-Chapman, Justine", "Allen, Willoughby C.", "Allnutt, Richard Lea", "Andersen, Francis I.", "Anderson, Robert", "Andrewes, Lancelot", "Arnold, Thomas", "Ash, Christopher", "Ashby, Godfrey", "Askwith, E. H.", "Atherstone, Andrew", "Atkinson, David John", "Avis, Paul", "Backhouse, J. H.", "Bagdon, J. O.", "Bagot, Daniel", "Baldwin, Joyce", "Ball, C. J.", "Balleine, G. R.", "Bandinel, James", "Barclay, John", "Barnes, William Emery", "Barnett, Paul", "Barry, Alfred", "Bartholomew, Craig G.", "Bartlett, John R.", "Barton, George Aaron", "Barton, John", "Bassett, Francis Tilney", "Batten, Loring W.", "Bauckham, Richard J.", "Baxter, Richard", "Bayley, Emilius", "Bayne, Paul", "Beckwith, Roger", "Bedell, G. T.", "Begbie, Jeremy S.", "Benham, William", "Bennett, Dennis", "Benson, Edward White", "Berkeley, George", "Bernard, J. H.", "Bernard, Thomas Dehany", "Bigg, Charles", "Binns, L. Elliott", "Birks, Thomas Rawson", "Black, Ian", "Blenkin, G. W.", "Bloomfield, S. T.", "Blunt, Henry", "Blunt, John Henry", "Booty, John", "Borg, Marcus J.", "Borsch, Frederick H.", "Bost, A.", "Bouchier, Barton", "Boutflower, Charles", "Bowen, W. E.", "Box, G. H.", "Boxall, Ian", "Boyce, Edward Jacob", "Bradford, John", "Bradley, George Granville", "Bradshaw, Paul F.", "Bramhall, John", "Bray, Gerald", "Brenton, Lancelot Charles Lee", "Bridges, Charles", "Briggs, Charles Augustus", "Briggs, Emilie Grace", "Brightman, F. E.", "Bromiley, Geoffrey William", "Brown, Colin", "Browne, E. Harold", "Bubbers, Susan I.", "Bull, George", "Bullinger, Ethelbert W.", "Bullock, W. T.", "Burgon, John W.", "Burney, C. F.", "Burnside, W. F.", "Burridge, Richard A.", "Burrows, H. W.", "Burton, R. T.", "Bush, Joseph", "Bussell, F. W.", "Butler, Joseph", "Carey, Carteret Priaulx", "Carmichael, Liz", "Carpenter, Spencer Cecil", "Carr, Arthur", "Carr, Wesley", "Cartwright, Thomas", "Carwithen, John Bayley Somers", "Chadwick, G. A.", "Chadwick, Owen", "Challis, James", "Chandler, George", "Chapman, Mark", "Charles, R. H.", "Chase, Frederic Henry", "Cherry, Stephen", "Cheyne, Thomas Kelly", "Childe, C. F.", "Chilton, Bruce", "Church of England", "Church Service Society", "Churton, W. R.", "Clark, Samuel", "Clark, William", "Clarke, W. K. Lowther", "Close, Francis", "Cobb, John", "Cocksworth, Christopher John", "Coggins, Richard J.", "Cole, R. Alan", "Coleman, John Noble", "Colenso, John William", "Collinson, John", "Colquhoun, Frank", "Comfort, Philip W.", "Conybeare, W. D.", "Conybeare, W. J.", "Cook, F. C.", "Cooke, G. A.", "Cornes, Andrew", "Cosin, John", "Cotton, Robert", "Coverdale, Myles", "Cowper, William", "Craigie, Peter C.", "Cranmer, Thomas", "Croft, George", "Cruttwell, Charles Thomas", "Cullen, John", "Cureton, William", "Currey, G.", "Curteis, George Herbert", "Daubney, William Heaford", "Daubuz, Charles", "Davenant, John", "Davids, Peter H.", "Davies, James", "Davis, Ellen F.", "Deane, William J.", "Dearmer, Percy", "Deering, Edward", "Dell, William", "Denton, W.", "Desprez, P. S.", "Dewey, Joanna", "Diamond, A. R.", "Dickinson, Hercules H.", "Dimock, H.", "Dix, Gregory", "Donne, John", "Downing, Henry", "Drake, William", "Drane, John", "Driver, Samuel Rolles", "Drown, Edward S.", "Drummond, D. T. K.", "DuBose, William Porcher", "Duncombe, Augustus", "Durrant, Henry Bickersteth", "Duyckinck, George L.", "Eastburn, Manton", "Edalji, S.", "Edersheim, Alfred", "Edgar, David", "Edghill, Ernest Arthur", "Edmunds, John", "Edwards, Ruth", "Ellicott, Charles J.", "Elliott, C. J.", "Elliott, E. B.", "Elliott, Neil", "Elsley, Heneage", "Elton, Edward", "Emmet, Cyril W.", "Espin, T. E.", "Evans, Neil", "Eveleigh, John", "Faber, George Stanley", "Fape, M. Olusina", "Farrar, Frederic William", "Farrer, John", "Farwell, James", "Fausset, A. R.", "Fawcett, John", "Fenwick, John", "Field, Frederick", "Field, John Edward", "Finch, William", "Floyd, Michael", "Foley, George Cadwalader", "Ford, James", "Forster, Charles", "Forster, John", "Foxe, John", "France, R. T.", "Fremantle, W. H.", "French, William", "Fry, John", "Fulford, H. W.", "Fuller, J. M.", "Gandell, R.", "Garbett, James", "Gardiner, Frederic", "Garratt, Samuel", "Garrod, G. W.", "Gifford, E. H.", "Gilpin, William", "Girdlestone, Robert Baker", "Gisborne, James", "Glazebrook, M. G.", "Goddard, Charles", "Goldingay, John", "Gooder, Paula", "Goodwin, Harvey", "Gordon, Geoffrey", "Gore, Charles", "Gouge, William", "Goulburn, Edward Meyrick", "Gould, Ezra P.", "Govett, Robert", "Gowen, H. H.", "Grant, Anthony", "Grant, F. W.", "Grant, Frederick C.", "Grau, Marion", "Greaves, R. W.", "Green, Michael P.", "Gregg, J. A. F.", "Griffiths, J. S.", "Griffiths, Steve", "Gwynn, J.", "Gwynne, George John", "Hacking, Philip", "Halcombe, J. J.", "Hall, Charles Henry", "Hall, Francis J.", "Hannan, E. C. W.", "Hardy, Daniel", "Hardy, Nathanael", "Harpur, George", "Harrison, R. K.", "Harvey, John E.", "Hatch, Edwin", "Hawker, Robert", "Hawkins, John C.", "Hawkins, William", "Headlam, Arthur C.", "Heath, D. I.", "Heber, Reginald", "Hein, David", "Henson, H. Hensley", "Her Majesty’s Printing Office,", "Herbert, George", "Hervey, A. C.", "Heurtley, Charles A.", "Hewson, William", "Hillard, A. E.", "Hoare, J. Gurney", "Hobhouse, Walter", "Hodges, George", "Hodson, James", "Holland, Henry Scott", "Holland, Hezekiah", "Holmes, Christopher R. J.", "Holmes, Robert", "Hooker, Richard", "Hooper, William", "Hopkins, Ezekiel", "Horne, George", "Horne, Thomas", "Horsley, Samuel", "Hort, Fenton John Anthony", "Houghton, W.", "Howson, John S.", "Hughes, Philip Edgcumbe", "Hughes-Games, A.", "Hunt, Alfred Leedes", "Hutton, William Holden", "Huxtable, E.", "Inge, William Ralph", "Jackson, Blomfield", "Jacobson, William", "Jacox, Francis", "James, Montague Rhodes", "Jebb, John", "Jelf, Richard William", "Jelf, William Edward", "Jenkyn, William", "Jennings, A. C.", "Jervis, L. Ann", "Jewel, John", "Johnson, G. H. S.", "Jones, James", "Jones, John", "Jones, Maurice", "Jones, Spencer", "Jones, W. B.", "Jowett, Benjamin", "Jukes, Andrew", "Kay, W.", "Keble, John", "Kellner, Maximilian Lindsay", "Kelly, Brian E.", "Kelly, Francis", "Kelly, J. N. D.", "Kelly, James", "Ken, Thomas", "Kennett, Robert H.", "Ketley, Joseph", "Kidner, Derek", "King’s Chapel,", "Kingsbury, T. L.", "Knight, Jonathan", "Knowles, Andrew", "Knowling, R. J.", "Knox, E. M.", "Knox, Ian S.", "Kruse, Colin G.", "Kuhrt, Stephen", "Lake, Kirsopp", "Lamdin, Keith", "Lanchester, H. C. O.", "Landon, Edward H.", "Lang, Cosmo Gordon", "Latimer, Hugh", "Laud, William", "Laurence, Richard", "Law, Henry", "Law, William", "Lawlor, H. J.", "Le Mesurier, Thomas", "Lee, Frederick George", "Lee, Samuel", "Lee, William", "Lewis, John G.", "Lias, J. J.", "Liddell, Robert", "Liddon, Henry Parry", "Lightfoot, John", "Lightfoot, Joseph Barber", "Linton, Henry", "Littledale, Richard Frederick", "Lloyd, John", "Lock, Walter", "Lowe, W. H.", "Lowth, Robert", "Lucas, Dick", "Lucas, R. C.", "Lumby, J. Rawson", "Lupton, J. H.", "M’Ghee, Robert J.", "MacDermott, G. M.", "MacIntosh, A. A.", "Maclear, G. F.", "Macquarrie, John", "Maiers, Brian", "Maitland, S. R.", "Mangina, Joseph L.", "Mansel, H. L.", "Margoliouth, Moses", "Marriott, Charles", "Marston, Charles Dallas", "Mason, Arthur James", "Mason, W. T.", "Masterman, J. H. B.", "Maturin, B. W.", "Maurice, Frederick Denison", "Mayor, Joseph B.", "Mbiti, John", "McCaul, Alexander", "McDurmon, Joel", "McGrath, Alister", "McNeile, A. H.", "Medd, Peter Goldsmith", "Members of the University of Oxford", "Meyrick, F.", "Michell, R.", "Miller, Charles", "Millington, Thomas S.", "Moberly, George", "Moberly, R. C.", "Monro, Edward A.", "Montgomery, James A.", "Morgan, Aaron Augustus", "Morres, Robert", "Morris, Leon", "Motyer, J. Alec", "Moulaison, Jane Barter", "Moule, C. F. D.", "Moule, H. C. G.", "Moysey, C. A.", "Mozley, J. K.", "Mozley, James Bowling", "Muffet, Peter", "Munden, Alan", "Murray, J. O. F.", "Neale, John Mason", "Neil, C.", "Neve, Timothy", "Newcome, William", "Newitt, Mark", "Newland, Henry", "Newton, John", "Nicholls, Benjamin Elliott", "Nolland, John", "Norris, John Pilkington", "O’Brien, Peter T.", "O’Connor, Kathleen M.", "O’Conor, W. A.", "O’Donnell, Kevin", "Oakley, Nigel W.", "Oesterley, W. O. E.", "Ogilvie, Charles A.", "Olden, Thomas", "Owen, Henry", "Packer, J. I.", "Paley, William", "Palmer, William", "Park, J. R.", "Patrick, Simon", "Pearson, Chr. Ridley", "Pearson, John", "Peile, James H. F.", "Peile, Thomas Williamson", "Percy, Martyn", "Perowne, J. J. Stewart", "Pervo, Richard I.", "Peterson, David G.", "Pinder, John H.", "Plummer, Alfred A.", "Plumptre, E. H.", "Plumptre, Henry Scawen", "Polkinghorne, John", "Powys, David J.", "Price, Aubrey Charles", "Prideaux, Humphrey", "Procter, John", "Protestant Episcopal Church", "Pullan, Leighton", "Pusey, E. B.", "Quarry, John", "Radner, Ephraim", "Ramsey, Michael", "Randolph, Berkeley William", "Raven, Charles E.", "Rawlinson, George", "Redpath, Henry A.", "Reformed Episcopal Church", "Rendall, Frederic", "Rendall, Gerald H.", "Retief, Frank", "Reynolds, Edward", "Richey, Thomas", "Ridley, Nicholas", "Ritchie, Arthur", "Robertson, C. K.", "Robertson, F. W.", "Robinson, A. W.", "Robinson, Gnana", "Robinson, J. Armitage", "Rogers, George Albert", "Romaine, W.", "Rose, H. J.", "Rosner, Brian S.", "Ross, Allen", "Rossetti, Christina", "Row, Charles Adolphus", "Rowlandson, W. H.", "Rowley, Adam Clarke", "Rowling, Cathy", "Rushbrooke, W. G.", "Ryle, Herbert Edward", "Ryle, J. C.", "Sadler, M. F.", "Salmon, George", "Salmon, Marilyn J.", "Sanday, William", "Sanford, John", "Scott, Melville", "Scott, Robert", "Scratton, George", "Seitz, Christopher R.", "Selwyn, Edward Carus", "Selwyn, Edward Gordon", "Shanks, Andrew", "Shepard, Richard", "Shirley, Walter Augustus", "Short, Augustus", "Shute, Josias", "Sibbes, Richard", "Simcox, William Henry", "Simeon, Charles", "Simon, Patrick", "Skrine, John Huntley", "Smith, Herbert Maynard", "Smith, R. Payne", "Smith, Susan Marie", "Smith, Sydney", "Speck, Peter", "Spence, H. D. M.", "Spranger, R. J.", "Srawley, J. H.", "Stainer, John", "Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn", "Steenstra, P. H.", "Stevens, William Bacon", "Stevenson, John", "Stock, Eugene", "Stock, John", "Stock, Joseph", "Stock, Richard", "Stonard, John", "Stone, Darwell", "Stott, John", "Stowell, Hugh", "Streane, A. W.", "Strong, Leonard", "Strong, Thomas B.", "Sumner, George", "Sumner, John Bird", "Swain, Storm", "Swete, Henry Barclay", "Sykes, Stephen", "Tait, Arthur J.", "Tatham, Edward", "Taylor, Charles", "Taylor, Jeremy", "Taylor, John B.", "Tellini, Gian", "Temple, Frederick", "Temple, William", "Terrot, C. H.", "Terry, Justyn", "The Church of England,", "The Episcopal Church", "The Protestant Episcopal Church,", "Thiselton, Anthony C.", "Thomas, Griffith", "Thorndike, Herbert", "Thrall, Margaret E.", "Threlfall-Holmes, Miranda", "Thrupp, Joseph Francis", "Tickle, Phyllis", "Tinker, Melvin", "Tisdall, William St. Clair", "Titley, Robert", "Todd, James F.", "Toller, T. N.", "Tomlin, Graham", "Toplady, Augustus M.", "Torr, Stephen C.", "Towner, Philip H.", "Travis, Stephen", "Trench, Richard Chenevix", "Trollope, W.", "Turner, Samuel H.", "Tyng, Stephen H.", "Ulrich, Dean R.", "Underhill, Evelyn", "Ussher, James", "Vaughan, Charles John", "Venables, Edmund", "Venn, John", "Vibert, Simon", "Vincent, John Heyl", "Vogan, Thomas S. L.", "Wace, Henry", "Wagner, George", "Waite, Joseph", "Waldengrave, Samuel", "Walker, Paul", "Walker, Thomas", "Walton, Kevin", "Walton, Steve", "Waple, Edward", "Ward, Bernard", "Ward, Robin", "Water, Mark", "Watkins, Henry Williams", "Webb, Barry G.", "Webber, Robert", "Wells, Jo Bailey", "Wells, Samuel", "Wenham, David", "Wenham, Gordon J.", "Wesley, Charles", "Wesley, John", "Westcott, Brooke Foss", "Westoby, Amos", "Weston, Frank", "Whately, Richard", "Wheaton, N. S.", "Whitacre, Rodney A.", "Whitefield, George", "Whybray, R. N.", "Wickham, E. C.", "Wilberforce, Samuel", "Wilberforce, William", "Wilcock, Michael", "Wilcox, Pete", "Willet, Andrew", "Williams, A. Lukyn", "Williams, David J.", "Williams, Isaac", "Williams, John", "Williamson, James", "Wilson, Daniel", "Wilson, Henry Bristow", "Winterbotham, Rayner", "Wintle, Thomas", "Wood, William Spicer", "Woodgate, Henry Arthur", "Woodhouse, John", "Woodward, James", "Wordsworth, John", "Wright, Arthur", "Wright, Charles Henry Hamilton", "Wright, Christopher J. H.", "Wright, J. Robert", "Wright, N. T.", "Wright, Thomas", "Yates, Timothy", "Yee, Gale A.", "Zahl, Paul F. M.") OR Publisher:("SPCK") OR Abbrev:("CPC")

Try deleting maybe just those two and seeing if that helps things? You should be able to recreate them easily by pasting in the rules from this post.

(Additionally, the collection filter system was not built anticipating large collection rules like this. I think there are ways we can improve the performance of collections like this and I am creating a case for that.)

Bruce Dunning said:

Bradley Grainger (Faithlife) said:

However, particularly if you have a HDD and not a SSD, this evaluation can cause hard drive contention that interferes with other I/O that needs to happen.

I've used a SSD for years so I can only imagine how long it would take with a HDD.

I only mentioned HDD because I saw some delays logged that I wouldn't expect on an SSD [:(] What brand/model do you have and how old is it?

Also, how big is this file: C:\Users\bdunning\AppData\Local\Logos5\Documents\lyvikjbt.35g\LayoutManager\layouts.db

Bruce Dunning said:

I really think this should be better than close to 3 minutes. Do you agree?

I do.

At the moment, we're still mostly guessing at the cause of the performance issue. Without a detailed performance trace from your computer, we won't really know what's causing the slowdown. 

I'll ask the desktop team to get in contact with you to help track this down.