InDesign CC 2017 slow

I ended up uninstalling 2017 and installing 2015.

Seems to be working.

It felt like a Wacom bamboo issue, but after reading this thread I think it's a far greater issue.

I'm writing a text book with 340 pages in Norwegian. I have used Indesign for many years. Now suddenly Indesign is so slow I can't work any more. None of the tips mentioned above have helped. Very disappointing to experience this.

Exact same problem here, contacted adobe about it and they said it's related to our network so they can't offer us support...

Many mac running the lastest OSX and InDesign have the same problem here, as soon as they are connected to our server, it's beachball hell. If we unmount the server for the mac, problem's solved... but we need our server connected in order to work.

Adobe Please do something about this, it's a huge issue for us and your software is not working as advertised, and we are paying too much money to adobe for them to ignore our complaints.

The same issue here...beach ball on every click.  I've no idea what to do...it was fine yesterday!

We all know that WHEN IT WORKS Adobe software is amazing but when it doesn't...which is all too often considering the monthly outlay, we al know that their support is crap...or should I say TOTALLY AWFUL....or TOTAL CRAP!  Embarrassingly so!  How many staff have been commenting on this post!!!  Just one response I think!

It's OUR fault though....we put up with it because in the main, we HAVE to put up with it, they have us over a barrel as there are no viable alternatives - Quark?...good luck, that's a bigger a piece of s**t and is soooo not an option.

It is just such a shame Adobe don't give a s**t about us...and they do have us over a barrel...i KNOW that, You ALL know that.

Suck it up peeps...or take a stand and switch Applications...i dare you!

I tried reinstalling CC 2017. I tried downgrading to CC2015. No luck. Finally, today I re-installed my old student version of CS6. Amazing! I finally can work with no interruption or spinning rainbow beach balls of delay, delay, delay. CS6 is my happy place right now ...

OK, I swore I wouldn't be on this thread again, but Mother Nature intervened. Let me explain...

Today, in the Boston area, the latest Snowmaggedon storm limped by. With work-from-home looming, I decided to take one of these beachballing babies home with me. To my complete befuddlement, it has worked flawlessly. Indesign zoomed through the day with nary a wee pause. I'm no IT guy, but this seems to indicate a network-related issue.

What I can't figure out is what could have changed on our work network when these problems started appearing. We hadn't been doing any work or made changes to the network or anything that I know about. Also, why is this problem not showing up on all our Indesign machines? Why is it so inconsistent and sporadic? What happened to Malaysian Air 370? All mysteries.

So, I suppose Adobe is not entirely wrong blaming users' networks for the problem. But why would this have suddenly appeared with some recent version update? Why with Indesign? Why so unpredictable?

Whatever the heck is going on, it's absurdly frustrating if you are dealing with this issue. The one thing I haven't tried yet, but might because it's probably worth it, is to completely wipe one of the machines and build everything up from scratch, documenting everything along the way. Might not make any difference, but it might save us a few brain cells.

Then again, I still have my old mechanical paste-up tools - Rubylith, waxer, One Coat, Bestene, Xacto... maybe I'll just go back to basics...

Thanks, Adobe!

This is absolutely terrible, working on a server (with a super fast fiber-optic connection) and I get this beach-ball hang at least once every 5-10 minutes, for around 5-10 seconds. That's fr199in' a lot during the whole time since this CC17 update came. I suspect it has something to do with the data-rate the program is using while constantly updating the previews, links/images and that kind of stuff.

(Yes, working locally fixes the problem but there is a reason why we have these servers to work on, certainly beats that purpose...

On top of that Creative Cloud is a proud modern-day internet-based service that doesn't seem to be able to work on the internet LOL)

I have been having this problem for ages. I finally found a way to fix it (at least for now). I have removed all variants of Minion Pro from my computer, except "Regular." I now need to substitute a different font in my documents. Ugh. I have used Minion Pro as my Go-To font for years. However, if that is what is needed to fix the problem, I guess I can live with it.

Just curious what computer you are using for the slow reaction.  The HP we are using it on works fine. It is the Dell on which we have a problem. Both are on the network. Wondering if this makes a difference.

This is probably the last time I'll post here since it clearly is making no difference as far as Adobe is concerned...

For those struggling with this issue, we have determined on the two machines impacted by this (of 5 we have running 2017), the ONLY consistent "fix" is to work locally. The size of the document, its contents, the fonts used, etc. seem to make no difference. It might function perfectly fine for a period of time, then suddenly (and seemingly with nothing causing the change) start the beachball dance.

The inconsistent appearance of the issue and the fact that it has only impacted two systems so far just makes it all the more frustrating. Open a document on one machine and it works fine. Open it on one of the "bad" installs and it tests one's patience...

NOTHING in our network was changed from before the problem appeared to correspond to the initiation of the issue. The installation of 2017 started the problem (or maybe it was 2015 - hard to recount the timeline at this point).

Good luck to you all... To reiterate - "work locally" has been the only thing that has worked consistently us.