illustrator running painfully slow.

[dgrogan]

Illustrator is runing very slowly full stop (Moving objects around on screen is very sluggish etc) but the most frustrating aspect which is making it almost unusable is when i try to use text. i create a text box and start typing and its fine but then it just stops and shows the spinning beach ball. whenever i try to select parts of the text it shows the beach ball for a few seconds making the experience very frustrating. I tried disabling all my fonts to see if there was a problem there to no avail. running mohave on iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2015) with new SSD. illustator 24 freshly updated.

Any help to solve this would be much appreciated.

[dgrogan · Accepted solution]

For anyone interested the issue was resolved by resetting my preferences. - such a simple change and such a dramatic effect!

[silvia@edozo.com]

Thank you very much I was going crazy!

[Derek24943645u4oz]

Be great if you would have let us know "How To" change the preferences.

[Monika Gause]

The documentation tells you how: https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/setting-preferences.html 

[Kathryn Klein]

After InDesign driving me so crazy with spinning beach ball hang ups for the past 2 years that I've actually rebuilt files in Illustrator and even in MS Word to avoid having to use it, I've FINALLY found a fix... well... sort of.  I had tried ALL of the recommendations like trashing prefs, etc... none of which worked for more than a few moves before the friggin' beach ball started spinning again. What FINALLY works is turning off WIFI, which unfortunately disconnects me from the Web, making multi-tasking impossible, of course — no email, etc. — but it DOES let InDesign actually opertae as it is supposed to — and used to — before CC 2019, so I can actually get something done.  Not ideal, but definitely helpful.

[stefank40043480]

Same here. Too bad I'm working remotely ... 😄