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Spinning beachball PS 2020

Explorer ,
Jun 15, 2020 Jun 15, 2020

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I am getting a 2-3 sec spinning beach ball on every function; crop tool, brush, save... even trying get a spinning beach ball when I select photoshop/about

I am only having issues with photoshop.

 

I reset preferences and all is good for about an hour then the spinning beach ball starts again.  

I have verified fonts, deleted Font cache

PS 21.1.3  

iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2019), 10.15.5

3.6 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i9

64 GB 2667 MHz DDR4

Radeon Pro Vega 48 8 GB

 

 

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Community Expert , Jun 15, 2020 Jun 15, 2020

This does sound odd.

The first area that I suggest checking is to make sure you have enough RAM allocated and the Graphic Processor is checked. These are both listed under Photoshop > Preferences > Performance. You might also want to reset all defaults listed under Preferences > General. warmly/j 

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Jun 15, 2020 Jun 15, 2020

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This does sound odd.

The first area that I suggest checking is to make sure you have enough RAM allocated and the Graphic Processor is checked. These are both listed under Photoshop > Preferences > Performance. You might also want to reset all defaults listed under Preferences > General. warmly/j 

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Community Beginner ,
Aug 14, 2020 Aug 14, 2020

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Worked!

 

I just rest all of my preferences (yes I had to go back in a change everything back to normal) but this seemed to have solved it.

 

I have a feeling that PS imports the prefs from previous versions during install and there is a conflict.

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Community Beginner ,
Oct 12, 2020 Oct 12, 2020

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I've found the "guilty" pref, wich caused the beach ball lag. For me it was the User/Library/Preferences/Adobe Photoshop 2020 Settings/MachinePrefs.psp . I deleted it, and the beach ball lag has gone! This way all my settings remained.
Thanks for the tip to chuckszachta for resetting preferences!

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New Here ,
Oct 12, 2020 Oct 12, 2020

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Sadly I am back to using 2018 again. This versions was still beach balling in a variety of scenarios, too many to list here. I will try the "MachinePrefs.psp" file and see if that helps. Let us know how you are doing a few days in.

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Community Beginner ,
Oct 20, 2020 Oct 20, 2020

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Still all good. I don't know deleting the "MachinePrefs.psp" works for everybody, but for me this helped.

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Explorer ,
Oct 31, 2020 Oct 31, 2020

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Deleting "MachinePrefs.psp" worked for a while, maybe 25hrs, just redeleted and will try again.  It is an odd issue because once it starts it affects most functions.  

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Participant ,
Feb 09, 2022 Feb 09, 2022

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BAM. That worked for me too, Dom.

 

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New Here ,
Jan 12, 2021 Jan 12, 2021

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Thank you for this fix. You have saved me hours of frustration at work!

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Community Beginner ,
Oct 28, 2020 Oct 28, 2020

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Deleting the "MachinePrefs.psp" did not work for me. I also allocatied 70% of my ram to Photoshop, dropped my history state count- down to 80(just for good measure), but still getting a beach ball. I did transfer my settings/preferences from the previous version of PS, so I will try resetting my preferences. Wish me luck!

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Community Beginner ,
Oct 28, 2020 Oct 28, 2020

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My machine specs just for reference for anyone who can help. Thank you.Screen Shot 2020-10-28 at 4.59.12 PM.png

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Community Beginner ,
Oct 29, 2020 Oct 29, 2020

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UPDATE: Fixed the issue after resetting preferences and relaunching PS. Thank you!!!

 

 

 

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Community Beginner ,
Jan 10, 2021 Jan 10, 2021

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For Photoshop 2021,

Preferences > General > Reset Preferences on Quit

Did the trick and solved the spinning ball lag for me.

Thanks for the thread!

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Participant ,
Feb 09, 2022 Feb 09, 2022

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THIS worked for me too:

I've found the "guilty" pref, wich caused the beach ball lag. For me it was the User/Library/Preferences/Adobe Photoshop 2020 Settings/MachinePrefs.psp . I deleted it, and the beach ball lag has gone! This way all my settings remained.

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