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

[Samuel Wales]

thank you.

i will give up on archiving categories if needed to make archiving be
practical.  will ahfe to try it as soon as i can.

On 8/11/21, Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com> wrote:
> Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> 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?
>
> Nope. It does not just calculate category for the archived entry, but
> re-calculates all the category properties in the original Org file
> (updating category cache).
>
>> 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.
>
> Appending can indeed work if your archive location is at the end of the
> file. However, it is not necessary the performance bottleneck. Certainly
> not when the archive file is small.
>
> Best,
> Ihor
>


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