Adobe Audition for Mac OS 15.3.1 Serious Lag issues with External SSD Drives 2025

[adamb21642513]

Working on a Mac OS 15.3.1. Happens on Mac Studio, iMac, and Macbooks: Our compnay has us working on external SSD drives to store our files.

Anyone else noticing in the last few updates (End of 2024/Beginning of 2025) major lag issues when working with projects on external SSD drives? Audition seems to be the most effected, but Premiere has issues as well. A task that used to take a split second, is now taking many minutes. Recording is almost impossible. I have to drag the project to my desktop and work from there. Then drag it back to store it.

Mostly wondering if this is an Adobe issue, or maybe something on our Macs, but it's happening to all Mac's using Adobe Cloud.

[Rag and Bone]

How are the drives formatted? If encrypted APFS see this.

Also, check the drives' permissions .