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Finding To Do slow recently
Has anyone else found To Do has become quite slow lately? I've used it most days in the past but stopped over the last couple of months due to my work changing. I'm back to it now and find that it...
I've found a solution for slow To-Do. I've had a list of tasks for a long time with over 5.000 tasks (95% complete) and I've noticed that it slowed down the app on my computer.
So I created a new list with 0 completed tasks and moved the uncompleted tasks to this new list. Bam...the app is fast again.
That is why Microsoft told one of the users here to clean the flags of the e-mail. Many flags equals to many tasks on To-Do. If you have more than 5.000 tasks (or less, I don't know the specific number), chances are you are gonna have lag on the windows app.
So I created a new list with 0 completed tasks and moved the uncompleted tasks to this new list. Bam...the app is fast again.
That is why Microsoft told one of the users here to clean the flags of the e-mail. Many flags equals to many tasks on To-Do. If you have more than 5.000 tasks (or less, I don't know the specific number), chances are you are gonna have lag on the windows app.
- Yes it works for me too, although there is still a small lag when I open the iphone app after delete/move 4000+ completed tasks. Thank you and you solved the issue at last! Microsoft owed you big time.
Hi,
It is fairly simple. First of all, I’m using an iPhone.
Open any list
In the upper right corner click the 3 dots …
Click Edit
From there you can Select All and Move, or Delete.
I did not delete but instead made a list called Completed Tasks and moved 1,000’s of tasks to it, leaving only a small amount in the list I normally use. I tested out the speed several times and this solution worked.
JabAir Thank you a thousands times over. I moved roughly 4,000 completed tasks to a new list and now the sync time from one person’s list to another is lightning fast.
Why doesn’t MS simply offer multiple ways to fix this? One option is merely to permanently delete completed tasks. Another is to offer mass deletion. Yet another option is to only allow 2,000 tasks. Regardless, it is shocking that they have not addressed this.
