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March 6, 2025
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Illustrator slowing down caused by TEMP files

  • March 6, 2025
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So here is my problem. When I start working in illustrator everything seems to be fine but after hour performance start to slow down more and more every hour. The most noticable thing is selecting objects. I select object by clicking and than after second the layers bounding box shows up. To make it fast again I have to restart Illustrator. The problem doesn't appear when I create new document. So I narrowed my search for cause to TEMP files. While program was running (slow) I delated TEMP files ( only those that Windows let me beacuse Illustrator was still on) and performance went back to normal. So what's going on with that ?

 

Running Win11, I9-13900, RTX 4090, 64GB RAM, All Adobe programs up to date.

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Anubhav M
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Community Manager
March 6, 2025

Hello @mediumrare,

Would you mind trying the suggestions shared in this help article (https://adobe.ly/3QING7c) and let us know if they help?

 

Also, try running Illustrator under Safe Mode (Windows) and a different administrator account (Windows) and share your observations.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

 

Anubhav