# Speeding up bulk archiving in org-agenda
Marking items in bulk in the agenda, then bulk archiving them, had gotten really slow for me. Turns out it was because my \_GTD.orgarchive file had gotten so big (>30,000 lines).
I copied \_GTD.orgarchive to \_GTD.orgarchive-2021-03-25, then emptied \_GTD.orgarchive. Now it's nice and fast to archive in bulk again.