There is nothing fast about Local

Running a few year old Dell with win7-64bit with the newest version of Local…it literally takes 30-45 secs just ‘activating’ or ‘deactivating’ a plugin. 15 secs to switch to another part of the admin.

From the time you hit add page, type in the title and hit publish it’s a full minute.

I’ve spent the entire day trying different things and every answer Google had to offer.

Any other ideas floating around?

Mac user here, so this is purely second-hand hearsay… there have been cases of Local running very slowly on Windows because of some anti-virus software.

A few things that helped me:

  • Use a Custom Environment, avoid “Preferred”
  • Change the Suffix from .local to something else (I’m using .test)
  • Enable Faster Docker Volumes and IPv6 Loopback under Preferences > Advanced

Saw that…didn’t help. Total deactivation of Anti-virus made absolutely no difference.

I was using custom environments and enabled the Faster Docker Volumes and IPv6 Loopback…still no joy. DIdn’t try changing .local to anything else. I just went back to using a random sub-domain on my host and It feels like my computer got a whole new lease on life.