Illustrator slow with large files

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November 21, 2017
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Working sometimes with files around 100mb, illustrator performs very slow, above 200mb it's nearly not possible to work anymore.

I work on an imac Retina 27inch, late 2015, 3,2 Ghz intel Core i5, RAM 8 GB 1867 Mhz, so not an old computer

Would it help to install more RAM (up to 16 GB is possible)?

Or does illustrator always work slow on files exceeding 100 - 200 MB?

Thanks

illustrator slow memory large files

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Michael Riordan

Inspiring

Illustrator doesn't necessarily get slower as the file size increases, but it may slow down if the artwork is complex, has a lot of anchors, or uses a lot of effects. Are you doing anything with the art that would be considered complex?

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mennofaberAuthor

Participant

Thanks!

Well it's hard to answer this in detail. As said my files are maps. There are no effects. There are very many vecors, some have very many anchor ponts.

There are about 60 layers.

Also remarkable: I just edited some locations of text boxes and a few other things. The file was 128mb before this, saving it as a new file, it turned 163mb... So file size seems to be a bit random