Illustrator CC 2018 extremely slow saving

[courtneyw98665068]

my set-up

iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2015)

3.3 GHz Intel Core i5

32 GB 1867 MHz DDR3

AMD Radeon R9 M395 2 GB

2.12 TB Fusion Drive 1.64TB Available

Running the latest OS and the latest version of illustrator cc2018 and Illustrator saves (and opens) extremely slow. All other applications run super fast as they should with my specs but illustrator continues to be slow and also usually crashes about once a day.

I've seen a  lot of people with similar problems but i have yet to be able to solve this. I use Illustrator for about 80% of my work during the day and this is becoming a major productivity issue. Can anyone please offer any suggestions on how I could get Illustrator to run correctly?? Thanks in advance.

[dv8kiwi]

OK, the ONLY workaround that works for me is setting Adobe PDF as the default printer, because my actual default printer is on the network. Which is a PAIN. And this is ONLY an issue with Illustrator and absolutely NO other program on my PC. So this OBVIOUSLY A BUG. It still exists in 2019 and there have been numerous updates BUT THE ISSUE HAS NEVER BEEN ADDRESSED BY ADOBE! This is not good enough Adobe, I thought fixing this sort of thing is why we are paying a subscription, how wrong.