Text Tool In Photoshop VERY Slow - causes crashes

Hi There,

We're currently having many issues with the photoshop text tool across 3 different G5 macs.

Copying and pasting from any CS2 app into Photoshop, or just copying & pasting within Photoshop is very slow - about 25sec per paste.

Also, on 4 separate occasions over the past 5 days, Photoshop has hung. We've waited a good mins for it to come back to life, but in the end we have to force quit. However, when this happens, Photoshop deletes the file! Gone. Nothing there.

I scanned the forum list for this issue, but the design of this forum (especially compared with the Macromedia forum) makes my eyes go cross-eyed.

Is anyone else having a similar issue?

Dual 2Ghz G5
Dual 1.8Ghz G5
Single 1.8Ghz G5
OS 10.4.7
Photoshop 9.0x196
4GB of Ram per machine
3GB used by Photoshop

How many fonts are installed? are you using a font manager?

We're using Suitcase X1 and we have about 10-20 font families open at any one time.

Also, forgot to mention that while typing, Photoshop will just randomly stop for 30sec. Then we have to retype everything.

This could be a font issue, but it's just started happening - maybe since we updated to 10.4.7?

What changed on your system between the time it was fast and when it slowed down?

drop your memory down to 70%