Glyphs App is really slow opening and saving

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Hi

Glyphs app is really slow opening and saving a font. It’s a normal sized font with two master - 634 glyphs

I don’t have any plugins installed.

I don’t have any performance issues working in the App but opening and closing is really slow, closing can take 2 minutes.

Is there anything I can do to improve this.

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What file format are you saving?
Where do you store the file? Try saving it on the local desktop.

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I’m saving it as .glyphs file

I’m saving it locally on my desktop

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How big is that file?
Can you send it to me?

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The file is 610 KB

Can I email you the file ?

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Send it to ‘support’ at this domain.

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And what happens when you open a exported .otf file and save it as .glyphs?

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I have just opened one of the .otf weights from the font I am using and saved that as a .glyphs file. It was really quick, no delay at all

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Then there is something going on with that file. I’ll have a look.

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Thank you

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You need to close your tabs once in a while. You have more than 900 open tabs. That Glyphs is able to cope at all with this is quite good. I’ll send you a cleaned up file.

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Thank you Georg, it works prefect now.

Is there a way to close all tabs without deleting them one by one

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Found it thanks

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I recommend that you use command + F to get to the glyph you want instead of going to the edit view to open a new tab.

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Can I get Glyphs to NOT open a Tab?

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What do you mean?
Double clicking a glyph in font view to open in the existing tab?
You could use Command+W to get to the font view and the open a new one from their.
But as I said, it is probably better to get used to the Command+F dialog as you don’t need the mouse for it.

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