MacOS Mojave causing Spinning Mouse all the time

[Guest]

When I had Mac OS Sierra, PS elements ran fine. No issues.

After the upgrade to Mojave, the mouse was nearly always spinning.

I was told I needed a PS upgrade.  so I bought the new one, 2018.  After a few updates to it, it was fine.

But then, it started again.  If I open an image in Elements, it takes about 25 seconds to load it and the mouse to stop spinning.

Why is that?  Surely the new OS and new Software should work beautifully.  Is there anything I can do to check settings, like memory leakage etc?

[Medha_Sharma]

Hello,

Could you please confirm if the issue occurs only when you open the image in a specific room (like Quick/Expert) or does it occur in all the rooms? Also, does it occur with all the images, irrespective of their size/type?

Thanks,

Medha

[Guest]

Rooms?

When I open an image file on the Mac (right click, Open With, Photoshop Elements), it takes a long time to get the image in there - whether PS is running or not.

And no, file size makes no difference as I had one that was about 50kb.

[Medha_Sharma]

I require some more information to ascertain the cause behind this abnormal behavior.

1. Please navigate to Help > System Info.

2. Click on "Copy"

Request you to share the copied text on this thread.

Thanks,

Medha

[Guest]

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Physical processor count: 2

Logical processor count: 4

Processor speed: 1600 MHz

Built-in memory: 8192 MB

Free memory: 4275 MB

Memory available to Photoshop Elements: 6703 MB

Memory used by Photoshop Elements: 70 %

Image tile size: 128K

Image cache levels: 6

Font Preview: Medium

TextComposer: Latin

Display: 1

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Display Bounds: top=0, left=0, bottom=900, right=1440

OpenGL Drawing: Disabled.

License Type: Perpetual

Serial number: 91550527881885384301

Feature::Dummy Feature: OFF

Application folder: /Applications/Adobe Photoshop Elements 2018/Support Files/

Photoshop Elements scratch has async I/O enabled

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[Court B]

Is this a fix?

Court

[Guest]

[normac2090409]

My Photoshop Elements 18 worked perfectly.  Now whenever I attempt any action I get the colored shell that spins and spins. Literally the second I try to do anything, nothing fixes it.

Elements Organizer 16.0.0.0
Core Version: 16.0 (20171215.m.115767)
Language Version: 16.0 (20171215.m.115767)

Current Catalog:
Catalog Name: My Catalog
Catalog Location: /Users/NormaChambers/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Elements Organizer/Catalogs/My Catalog/
Catalog Size: 104.60MB
Catalog Cache Size: 3.60GB

System:
Operating System Name: Mac OS X
Operating System Version: 10.14
System Architecture: Intel CPU Family:6 Model:61 Stepping:4 with MMX, SSE Integer, SSE FP, SSE2
Built-in Memory: 8.00GB
Free Memory: 2.00GB

[Court B]

Am using  Elements 14.  Worked great until Mojave.  Adobe now locks up and have to Force Quit and start over?

Get spinning cursor again soon?  Rebooted and reloaded.  Use MacBook with only Elements loaded.

[alanp33963378]

Hi,

    had the same problem and tried re-setting photoshop and I've now been using it for a few days now, sorted i think.

Hope it works