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JodyRadzik37240164
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July 31, 2024
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Illustrator 28.6 makes my work life a nightmare

  • July 31, 2024
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The latest update has added very close to twice as much time to work tasks because now the application sits in a spinning beach ball mode for at least 1 - 3 solid minutes each time I try to move to a new open window. This is with files and links that are completely local to my machine. It's made my work life [cursing removed]. Is there a way to downgrade?

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Correct answer JodyRadzik37240164

Noting for the community that by downgrading to 28.5 has solved this problem.

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JodyRadzik37240164Author
Inspiring
September 18, 2024

So, I'm trying the newer update, 28.7.1, and I'm still getting an inexcusable delay when switching between windows. Once again, I'm going to downgrade to the version that works better. These little things add up to a tool that is just not pleasant to use anymore.

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    JodyRadzik37240164AuthorCorrect answer
    Inspiring
    September 18, 2024

    Noting for the community that by downgrading to 28.5 has solved this problem.

    Stackola
    Stackola
    Inspiring
    September 14, 2024

    27.9.5 too, spinning like mother [removed]

    Macbook pro
    ILL 27.9.5
    OS 12.7.6

      Monika Gause
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      Monika GauseCommunity Expert
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      September 14, 2024

      Please tell us about your system and hardware.

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      vtg74
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      September 14, 2024

      Yep, latest version is a veritable nightmare. Using on MacBook Pro, OS 14.1, the workspace always feezes after putting computer to sleep, and settings always go back to default on each startup. VERY tiresome.

        Monika Gause
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        Monika GauseCommunity Expert
        Community Expert
        September 14, 2024

        Update your Sonoma. It's terribly outdated. Those early Sonoma versions had all kinds of bugs.

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        vtg74
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        September 16, 2024

        Using MacBook Pro M3, OS Sonoma 14.1

        Monika Gause
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        Monika GauseCommunity Expert
        Community Expert
        July 31, 2024

        For more and more people this gets solved by uninstalling, running the Adobe Cleaner tool and then reinstalling.

        https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/kb/cc-cleaner-tool-installation-problems.html

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        JodyRadzik37240164Author
        Inspiring
        July 31, 2024

        That's so much work when downgrading to upgrade got me back into business quickly. Maybe when I don't have a pile of files to advance through production, I can spend the day doing this instead.

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        Bobby HendersonCommunity Expert
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        August 1, 2024

        Sometimes an installation of an Adobe application, such as Illustrator, can get corrupted. This can be caused by various things, including ongoing updates to the operating system, device drivers and even other applications. Hardware issues or Internet connections issues can contribute to it. Merely uninstalling an application will likely leave behind a lot of "orphaned" files and even folders in all sorts of places. If any of those remaining files are corrupted it's likely a re-install of the application won't fix anything.

        It doesn't take much longer to uninstall an application using the CC Cleaner tool. Just for good measure (especially on Windows-based systems) I recommend rebooting the computer after running the cleaner tool and then cleanly re-installing the application after the computer is rebooted.  

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        Bobby HendersonCommunity Expert
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        July 31, 2024

        To install a previous/older version of Illustrator you can do so by opening the Creative Cloud desktop app and going to the Apps panel. Each application tile has a "more actions" three dots icon. If you click on that it will display a fly-out menu. "Other versions" is one of the options on that menu.

         

        BTW, have you tried some of the common trouble shooting steps, such as resetting Illustrator's preferences file?

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        JodyRadzik37240164Author
        Inspiring
        July 31, 2024

        Hi Bobby.

        I hate resetting preferences as I've make a lot of changes there I'd have to make again, but I'm willing to try if you think it would help. Do I trash a preferences folder to do this? Which one should I target? Thanks in advance for your advice.

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        JodyRadzik37240164Author
        Inspiring
        July 31, 2024

        Adding that the delay occurs when I'm moving from one open window to another rather than when I'm opening a new window.

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