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To my great dissapointment and frustration InDesign has a very slow performance.
Every time I try to do any action/move/ absolutely anything the "beach ball" appears and stalls me for 5-10 seconds.
So far I have tried, unistalling-installing the program, resetting prefereces changing color profiles and monitor settings and absolutely NOTHING works.
Please Adobe... find a solution!!!
Im running InDesign 2021 (16.3.2) on Mac OS Big Sur (11.5.1) annoying slow performance
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It would help if you'd let us know what kind of a system you're using and what its specifications are, as well as what kind of documents you're working on when these delays are occurring.
There could be any of a number of causes for your issues. Knowing what you're doing, and what kind of system you're doing it with, will help us determine how we may be able to help you.
Randy
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I'm experiencing just the opposite on my new iMac M1. InDesign launches in three seconds. Amazing. I'm curious to follow this thread, nonetheless, as ID on my late 2017 iMac (Intel) is a bit of a dog these days.
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I agree with Randy. We need more information about your system.
I'm using the same version of Big Sur as you and the same version of InDesign. I have a 2016 MacBook Pro (specs attached). InDesign launches in 6 seconds and never get "beach balls".
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These are my systems requirments...
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That helps a lot. Thanks for getting back with us. What kind of work are you doing with InDesign?
We're happy to help as we can.
Randy
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Thanks for quick response... Its Brochures im designing. From single to multiple pages. All saved in system HDD. No external links.
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Have you tried this troubleshooting information?
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Hi Mike,
Thank you for your response. I have already tried most of the things in list with no results unfortunately
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Mike, this is great! Very helpful.
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Jeff, that list is a compilation from all of you folks long-time on the forum. Thank you!
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Hi there,
Sorry about the trouble you are facing. I understand your frustration. Could you please share a few more details:
We are here to help, just need more info.
Thanks & Regards,
Anshul Saini
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Thank you so much for your response.. will try to answer in between your questions..
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I cleard all prefs and caches … I installed it completly new. Same story.
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Hi all,
Thank you for sharing the details.
Just following up, does turning off TimeMachine improves the performance of InDesign for you all? I would request you all to please try this out once if you haven't yet. If this doesn't improve the performance, you may try the suggestions shared on this page (https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign/resolve-slow-performance-and-unexpected-behavior-of-indesign...) step by step and share your observations with us.
Regards,
Anshul Saini
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I have the same problem!
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I have the exact same problem!!! I tried a lot of things and I still can't work without frustration with that spinning rainbow ball between every tiny action!
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Not sure if this was mentioned or not.
Turn off Preflight in the Preflight panel. Preflight is constantly checking your document, which sometimes can bring everything to a halt. It can be maddening!
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Hi all,
I would like to know if the steps suggested above by @Jeff Witchel, ACI worked for you all? If not, please try the following and share your observation with us:
Regards,
Anshul Saini
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Hi to all.
Sorry for my late response.
Unfortunately none of the above has worked. Therefore we run several tests with my IT Manager and got InDesign running normally by excuding my computer from firewall restrictions. So my question to Adobe is this: Are there any certain website addresses that Adobe In Design uses so we can excluded those from firewalling? If yes can you provide me them to me?
Thank you in advance
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UPDATE....
My computer was set to have a certain IP address and tha IP adress was set to be excluded from firewall settings.
It worked well for a week.. and then InDesign started stalling me again. Why on earth is this happening?
Why software is running normally when my iMac is off the internet (ethernet or WiFi)?
This is tottaly unbearable.
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All of this failed to fix the problem for me also.
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Thank you for sharing the details, @George Del. As asked, here are some network endpoints (https://helpx.adobe.com/enterprise/kb/network-endpoints.html) which Adobe product used. You can share it with your IT team, try excluding all the Adobe processes and services from your firewall and let us know how it goes.
I will be looking forward to you response.
Reagrds,
Anshul Saini
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Hi @rfrad @MikaMaki @PRO64 @blukom,
Sorry about the trouble you all are facing. I would request to share the details asked above, which would help us assist you accordingly. (Share your system specs and file size as well)
Also, please confirm if you all have tried the following measures to overcome this issue:
Let us know how it goes.
I will be looking forward to hearing from you all.
Thanks & Regards,
Anshul Saini
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Same here. Top of the line Intell 2020 Macbook pro and beachballs. Trying to get Apple to send me a new computer. I can't do my work. I could with my 2013 iMac and CS4 but the OS is obsolete yet WAY faster. It seems as we move forward with technology which is supposed to be faster, things either stay the same speed or even get slower. This is not acceptible.