Maybe a good interim troubleshooting step is to simply remove the print drivers and then try opening Acrobat without any print drivers to see if the pizza problem is resolved. I have found that Adobe opens just fine - sans pizza - when removing and re-adding print drivers. However, the Mac OS doesn't seem to always remember the new print drivers, so I have had to reinstall them subsequent to the initial install. MY BANDAID: I have gone into "Printers" under "System Preferences" and deleted all of the old print drivers and then reinstalled them, and it seems to correct the problem. I don't know if this is a Mac OS issue as well, but it seems to be a print driver incompatibility issue as I have received errors that Canon's print drivers are incompatible with the newest Mac OS. This is only a bandaid to the real issue of, "Wouldn't it be nice if it just opened like everything else and you could print right away?" My suggestion to Adobe: modify the programming to find the print drivers in the background so that immediate access is granted to the user and then just give a popup acknowledging that Adobe couldn't find the correct print drivers so that the user isn't so frustrated. Once opened, don't close it, or else run the risk of staring at the spinning pizza again. When it can't figure that out, it gives up after it gets tired of spinning and then provides access to the program after the spinning pizza goes away. For some reason, it seems that Adobe Acrobat is searching.and searching.and searching for print drivers that work upon opening the software for the first time. I think the "spinning pizza" happens because of print driver errors with my Mac OS. I actually think that I have found a "symptom". It was running so smooth for so many years and here we are. Choice: fix adobe and upgrade system, or sleep 8 hours. So I don't upgrade because I know it will cause lots of problems with older files. It is such a pain to deal with upgrading the system. Suspect I need to up grade the operating system. She has to back up and rewrite the article. We both subscribe on different accounts, in different locations. Both of us got this spinning thing after the auto upgrade in adobe. My indesign is working fine, no spinning. My boss is getting the spinning wheel in Indesign while she is typing in stories on a page layout. I probably have about 5000 pdfs stored on my computer. Once I force quit I can get through about 5-10 pdfs and then the spinning happens again. Then I go into a folder with older pdfs and we are spinning and locking up. I am also doing up dates as soon as and it seem to quiet down. So the only pattern I'm seeing is pdf made with older application along side newer pdfs. Seems if I have a new folder with new pdfs I don't get the spinning wheel as much. I have pdfs from different years in the same folder. I can touch up to 30 different pdfs per day. So the spinning wheel happens then quiets down a bit in Acrobat PDC, then I open a pdf in an old folder and we are spinning again. Here’s a video example of the speed comparison, with creepy music.I am in a holding pattern until I see what the fix is before spending time fixing by uninstalling, cleaning, upgrading. If all else fails you can find out what it will take to upgrade your Mac hardware with more memory (RAM) or a much faster SSD hard drive (solid state drive, also known as flash storage). Keep your Mac and your apps running lean. ![]() Close any tabs you aren’t using anymore with command-w. If you have Safari and Chrome open with a lot of tabs, that can slow things down a lot. There’s a lot going on behind the scenes if you use your Mac a lot, and some things don’t stop until you restart. I recommend restarting every 2-3 days for most people or daily if you are doing a lot of multi-tasking with big apps. This sounds cliché and very obvious but many people run their Mac for days without restarting. If you don’t know what it is, call us for help or put on your daredevil mask, hit Google, and get adventurous. If you know what it is and you don’t need it anymore, quit it. Look for anything that is using more than 10% of the CPU that MAY be your culprit. Press command-spacebar to open Spotlight and type “Activity”. ![]() Imagine if we could do that with our worries and stresses. It’ll warn you and ask you to save before quitting it. If you have an unfinished document, don’t worry. When you land on one you want to quit, keep holding command and press q. Hold command and press tab a few times to see which apps are open, and switch between them. (Update Nov 21st 2018: New Macinhome YouTube video “ why is my Mac so slow?! The top 12 reasons and fixes!” is live!) 1. ![]() □īelow are five options to make the beach ball go away. The more you’re worrying about, thinking about, and working on solving – the slower you’ll be to respond (and the more annoyed you’ll be) when someone asks you to do something else RIGHT NOW.
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