Lag when clicking and dragging objects in Illustrator (and InDesign) - Here's what I've tried:
Hi there —
A week ago, a few of my Adobe products began lagging when attempting a click-and-drag with the direct selection cursor. I noticed it first in Illustrator, but then noticed it in InDesign as well. I primarily use Illustrator in my day-to-day, so I'm posting here. After a fair amount of Googling, I discovered many people with the same problem over the past few years, all who had different solutions presented to them (to varying amounts of success). I've tried all sorts of things to resolve this issue, but nothing has worked. So I'm hoping to get some additional insight here. I'll outline the steps I've taken below:
The problem:
Clicking on an object and trying to move it has a relatively huge delay on it. Trying to select multiple objects in quick succession also makes the cursor to "stick" causing some items to suddenly jump around. It happened suddenly and seemingly randomly one day after lunch. It's very frustrating when designing complex boards.
Version:
- Mac OS: Sonoma 14.1.1
- Adobe Illustrator 28.0
The steps I've taken so far:
First of all, Safe Mode works wonderfully, so I'm convinced it's something loading behind the scenes in normal mode.
- Reinstalled/updated Illustrator
- Removed cache and other files out of the \~Library folder
- Tried earlier versions of Illustrator
- Disabled GPU preview
- Disabled GPU performance
- Updated my OS to Sonoma (it wasn't before)
- Verified I have no 3rd party screensharing or mouse pointer software installed
- Activity monitor is clean
- Disconnected my bluetooth mouse (it still happens using the trackpad solo)
I think that's it so far. I'll update with anything else that I try. Does anyone have any other suggestions here? I've been limping along in Safe Mode during my work day, but that's not ideal since I don't have access to my fonts, etc. there.
Thanks so much in advance!
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