InDesign CC 2017 slow

Here's another question. Is anyone here working on a server?

I'm working on a brand new iMac at work (it was top spec in April), it has 64mb ram and is running on Mac OS Sierra.

i am the only one using a Mac in my office (it's an architects) and I have to work from their Windows server.

Since i upgraded to 2017, InDesign is painfully slow and like you guys, I get the beachball every time I change the slightest thing. Sometimes I have to wait at least 5 mins before I think about force quitting because sometimes, when I make a change and the screen freezes, 5 minutes later the change eventually happens, then I can save.

Its totally unworkable. I'm at home now so I can't try the uninstalling and reinstalling But I hope that works.

Hello all,

I had the same issue with indesign running so slow for over a week. Unable to work!!!!!

I tried all the things supposed here an in other forums - nothing worked. I recognized for me, that the more sites (or text) the documents have the slower gets indesign. One page documents with less text: slow. More text with up to 100 sites - no chance to work - only "Beachball-working".

So the problem seemed to come from text? I suspected the new Suitcase Fusion 7 - I disabled the suitcase fusion plugin for auto-activation in indesign: No problems any more. Indesign works like I know and (often) love it!

Maybe I can help someone with this tipp. For me it solved the problem!

Regards,

Jason

Same problem here

We have downgraded to CC2015 as well - 2017 is not usable.
Re-Installing CC2017 does not fix the problem.

I just wanted to add that I am having the same beach ball problem as many have mentioned in this thread. The simplest actions, like applying a paragraph style or moving a box causes long wait times. I even tried a fresh install on my entire OS thinking that might help. My file is 256 pages and utilizes a lot of vector art, but even changing the art to typical view doesn't help. When I create an IDML and open it on my laptop which has InDesign CC suddenly everything works at a normal speed.

I should also note that the computer running the excruciatingly slow InDesign 2017 has a 4 GHz Intel Core i7 processor with 32 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 memory.  The computer that is working fast with InDesign CC has 2.3 GHz and only 16 GB memory and is 2 years older.

It seems to me that there is something wrong with the application.

hey I think Adobe fixed it. After deinstalation of InDesign 2017 I found a new version of ID2017 (Build 12.0.081) in my creative cloud. And also a new update of ID2015.

After installing  the new ID 2017 every works fine for me. Since the last 3 hours I can work without seeing the spinning ball, and without freezings of my desktop. Hope this was it for my ... 'til now everything works smooth and fast as it should be.

the permanent troble shootings the last days costs me hours of frustrating work...

MacOs Sierra 10.12.1 / MacBook pro 16 GB RAM, 500 SSD HD

I had change back to cc2015. Here I had the same Problem. So I think i can use the lastest version (cc2017) because there is the same problem.

Now I have no problems until now. But I'm not sure.

Maybe somebody can test it, too?

I get an E-mail form the Adobe Engineering Team.

Yep having the same issue!!!! Adobe sucks and has very bad customer service.

Also having the beachball of slowness every few times I select type and it is driving me crazy. The suggested fix makes no difference.

Come on Adobe at least acknowledge there is an issue! Oh thats right you have us locked in anyway so who cares!

Running in an iMac 27" 2014 with Yosemite 10.10.5 Plenty of RAM nd HD space. Running Suitcase Fusion 6'

I am having the same issue now. It's irresponsible to expect the user to suffer and miss their work deadlines as a result of Adobe not testing this critical issues like this thoroughly. I'm not an expert and I don't know what the real problem is, but I'm on a work computer, not a personal computer and am not allowed to update to Sierra until they update internal software. If that was required, it should have been explained prior to the update. I'm going to attempt to install the prior version of InDesign, had to do the same thing with Dreamweaver yesterday. Serious fail here. Product launch deadlines seem to have impacted judgement here. I hope they fix this quickly.