When clicking Hook first time after Mac startup, spinning ball

Bug Reports
1

The title says it all. Hook isn’t hanging or crashed, but it takes about 3 to 6 minutes before the spinning ball turns into the Hook panel.

Also, regardless of which app I am in or web page I’m on, the Hook panel displays a whole list of rubbish links (bookmarks?) I certainly haven’t used for Hooking. An example is the website of the postal service that I often visit when a parcel arrives for tracking purposes, another is the item from Bear app called “title” followed by a callback link…

The list is very slow to appear as well and when it does, Hook’s CPU consumption jumps to 45%.

2

Regarding the unexpected bookmarks, even if you haven’t hooked two together, if you copy a Hook link it goes into the Hook database. Would you perhaps have done that, perhaps even inadvertently with the keyboard shortcut?

3

Possibly, yes. It’s unusable like this. I’ll remove the app and start over again.
Erik

4

You could try exporting your database then importing it (turn off sync first, then turn on again after).

5

Thanks, but I’ve already removed it altogether.
Thanks anyway.

6

Are you using a pre-Big Sur version of Timing.app? It had an AppleScript issue that interacted with Hook.

7

Hi Luc, I’m not using Timing at all.
Thx,
Erik

8

Hi Erik, i faced the same behaviour of Hook in the past. I found out, if i use an iCloud-sync folder for my hooks folder with bookmarks, i ran in to this wrong behaviour from hook. Since i use a local folder for storing hook files it’s working fantastic. Maybe that could solve your problem :crossed_fingers: LG Wolfgang

9

Hi Wolfgang,

Thank you for the suggestion, but I’m not using an iCloud synced folder — I don’t sync folders at all — so in my case it must be something else causing this behaviour. Maybe it’s just my slow machine :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:.
Thanks,
Erik