> Does opening org files manually take a lot of time for you? > > Are you using org-id? > > Can you track down the problematic function using M-x profiler-start /
These are good questions. I *do* use org-id. I started doing this more recently. I use a package called super-links. That could be a cause of it? I can run profiler-start but I'm not sure what I'm looking for. Everything works OK (as far as I can tell), it's only when I want to search something specific it takes forever and a half. But of course, I'll take the advise above and try to run clean Emacs, see what happens then.