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Kannan5E78
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January 18, 2021
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Photoshop is become slow

  • January 18, 2021
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I have recently updated Photoshop to Ver. 22.1.1 and its become very slow and laggy. 

Even the most commom task of starting a new file takes more than 2 to 3 minutes. 

I dont know what is the issue for over all its just very very slow and unstable. 

 

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    readjeff
    Known Participant
    February 16, 2021

    Yes I noticed this too. My machine is very powerful so whilst it hasn't stopped my workflow it has become a distraction. Starting up and loading PS and documents has doubled in length of time. Often it looks like it has frozen as the progress bar/wheel no longer appears when PS starts. 

      Eugene Reisch
      Eugene Reisch
      Inspiring
      February 15, 2021

      Me too - really really slow, seeing the beach-ball icon on my Mac all the time, even when doign the simplest of tasks

      c.pfaffenbichler
      Community Expert
      c.pfaffenbichlerCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      February 15, 2021

      What have you done about that so far? 

      Eugene Reisch
      Eugene Reisch
      Inspiring
      February 16, 2021

      I've not changed anything in my setup other than update Photoshop.

       

      The previous versions worked fine. This one doesn't.

       

      I updated to 22.2 yesterday and still no better. 

       

      I'm using 21.2.4 fo rnow as it's stable (and usable)

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      AOCrows
      Participant
      January 21, 2021

      Me too! And checking my system requirements isn't going to help. My computer and photoshop were running perfectly fine a few weeks ago. With this new update, it takes several minutes to load and once its loaded just dragging something across the page causes it to bounce around. I literally can't work! I also downgraded and that didn't help.

      c.pfaffenbichler
      Community Expert
      c.pfaffenbichlerCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      January 18, 2021

      What have you done for general trouble-shooting and about performance so far? 

      https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/basic-trouble-shooting-steps.html

      https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/optimize-photoshop-cc-performance.html

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      Kannan5E78Author
      Participant
      January 18, 2021

      Hello,

      Yes i have done the general trouble shooting steps and even downgraded to an older version of Photoshop. 

      I have even changed the scratch disk to the 😧 drive which has more space then my C: drive which i think could help. 

       

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      mispeldUSU
      Participant
      January 20, 2021

      I'm also having the same problem, on both my work PC and my home PC. Photoshop is now so slow as to be completely unusable. Major lag for even the simplest commands. Can't even use the Move tool. Tried downgrading, uninstalling, reinstalling, changing scratch, updating performance preferences... nothing is making any difference. Illustrator and InDesign are both working fine, but Photoshop is now imposible to use. 

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