I’m on OmniFocus 3.15.4 on 2019 iMac, macOS Sonoma 14.2.1. I noticed that starting from a week or two ago, every action I took (add a tag, edit a task, complete a task, reorder a task, etc.), the “Saving to OmniFocus cache” notification appears for a second.
It may not seem significant but it breaks my flow as I manage my projects and move stuff around. Using the keyboard to navigate through the tasks and make edits takes an extra pause or key press.
As far as I can tell, I don’t see a setting that prevents this from happening. Is there a way to fix this? Do I have to clear some cache? Reset some settings? Reinstall the app?
Sorry this is happening to you! I’m not sure why it’s taking so long to save your changes, but that message appears whenever a save operation takes longer than expected—and as you can see, OmniFocus autosaves changes frequently (so that it can sync changes to your other devices frequently).
Does it help to rebuild the database using File > Rebuild Database?
Update: The app prompted me to archive older completed tasks (as it does every so often). After it did that, the “Saving to OmniFocus cache” notification stopped popping up every time I did something.
While there’s a chance that the issue might have been that I had too many actions, I’m not sure if that’s actually true since what I have now is probably half what I had many years ago and I never had that problem. Maybe one or more of the actions that are now archived were “corrupted” or something? Anywho, it’s fixed now.
