After using Preview, lots of beach balling

I’ve been using Drafts successfully for months, but whenever I invoke a Preview, I get lots of beach balling and lags. That persists until I restart or reboot. This started happening in October, so I’ve just avoided using Preview, but every so often I’ll try and it recurs. I would love to fix this.

I’m running Drafts 47.0 and Sonoma 14.7.1 on a 2019 MacBook Air with 8GB

Have not had any other reports of issues with previews. A few questions:

  • Is this using the standard File > Show Preview command?
    • If yes, do you see similar problems using action-based previews, like the example ones that ship in the default “Markdown” action group?
    • If no, above question reversed.
  • Is the problem related to having used a preview at all, or leaving it open?
  • What Markdown processor are you using (in Settings > Markdown), and what settings do you have configured for that processor?
  • If you switch between MultiMarkdown and GitHub as the processor, any change?
  • What preview template are you using, one of the default built-in templates or a custom one? If built-in, which one, and does changing have any effect (drop-down at bottom of preview window)
  • The beach ball appears after I’ve used File > Show Preview, though I usually use the keyboard shortcut. Not right away, but within a few minutes or after typing a few characters.
  • I will try the previews in the “Markdown” action group
  • Just using the preview, not leaving it open
  • I’m using MultiMarkdown with Smart quotes, Escaped line breaks, Footnotes, No labels, and Process HTML checked
  • I will try switching to GitHub processor
  • I’m using the default Basic; trying Foghorn now

As I’ve gone through this list the beach balling has gotten worse, 10-30 seconds. I’ll keep trying the suggestions in between restarting the app or rebooting and reply with more tomorrow.

Thanks for the details. I’ll do some testing here as well and see if I can reproduce.