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jenhoofsmith
jenhoofsmith
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October 15, 2018
Question

PS CC VERY Slow after Mohave Update on iMac

  • October 15, 2018
  • 5 replies
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A few days ago I updated my iMac OS to Mohave. Ever since, Photoshop has been excruciatingly slow. As an example, I have placed text on a photo. When I click into the text to make edits, everything stops, then the color progress wheel starts up and continues for a very long time.

Today I realized that I had an update from PS CC 2018 to PS CC 2019 so I was thrilled to think my problems would be solved.  Nope; no such luck.  Even after restarting the Mac after the update, no improvement.  Also checked the Activity Monitor and PS is the only thing that is having a problem.  If its important to know, my processor is 3.6 GHz Intel Core i7

Any ideas on how to fix this?

Thanks a bunch.

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    5 replies

    fernando.andreh
    fernando.andreh
    Known Participant
    April 26, 2019

    Same problem here. I'm using mac 2012 i7 16gb and with Sierra every Adobe software was alright. When I updated to Mojave, everything is slow and even very simple tasks as resize an image takes time.

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    suerundlehughes
    Participant
    January 13, 2019

    I have same problem too and would be interested to find out how to fix it. I have an iMac (2017) and photoshop is already checked in the privacy and security section, so not sure what to do. Anyone found a solution yet? Photoshop is so slow to work with.

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    nicoe69515859
    Participant
    February 3, 2019

    I removed all the crashes from Library/Application Support/CrashReporter

    Not sure if that is the solution but the spinnig wheel is gone.

    aleksandro6485019
    aleksandro6485019
    Participant
    December 13, 2018

    Same problem. iMac 2017 i7 16GB Radeon Pro 560 4GB

    tatycatelan
    tatycatelan
    Participant
    November 15, 2018

    same issue.

    I've an "old" macbook pro (2011) which macOS Mojave is not available, and any creative cloud app works just fine and faster.

    in the other hand, the computer that I use to work and edit photos and videos, 5mb project takes 10/15min to open and keeps crashing when I try change something.

    The privacy settings are all checked in.

    Dramenon
    Dramenon
    Inspiring
    October 15, 2018

    There were some changes to the way things work on the OS > Is Photoshop Checked in the Control Panel > Security and Privacy?

    It might be the cause...

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    jenhoofsmith
    jenhoofsmithAuthor
    Participant
    October 15, 2018

    It is checked.  When I dowloaded the new software I did not accept that change but saw that it would cause problems so I made that change.  Thanks for checking to see if that helped.

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