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February 13, 2023
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Spinning wheel and slow performance on Mac Pro

  • February 13, 2023
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For quite a while now while I am trying to work on a HTML project on  Dreamweaver 21.3 15593Build on my 2019 Mac Pro (2.5GHZ 8-Core Intel Xeon and 32GB of RAM) with Mac OS 13.1 I am experiencing a significant lag in the program and constantly getting the rainbow wheel.

I opened 5 pages to paste some new lines (each page has about 500 lines, not something too big) it took several minutes to even open the pages. Then when I navigate from page to page I am getting the spinning wheel every time. About 5 seconds from one tab to another.

I did a test, added one new line in the code and it took 10 seconds to save it and 20-25 to exit the program.

It will take for ever to make the change to the whole project…

 

On the other hand on my M1 Pro Macbook Pro I opened 7 pages instantly and worked without any problem and no delay.

 

Any help would be extremely helpful.

11 replies

Nancy OShea
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 15, 2023

Keep using the M1 Macbook Pro.  🙂

 

Seriously, slowness can be caused by many things.

Where do the local site folders reside  -- primary, external or cloud/networked drive?

Does this slowness occur in all sites and files or or just certain ones? 

 

 

 

 

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert