ACR 4.5, 4.6 taking A LONG time to start

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jrutt
Oct 13, 2008
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I have a 2.5GHz dual processor power mac. Never really had any problems. Recently updated and got ACR 4.5. Now it takes minutes for either bridge or PS to start open ACR with a particular image.

I tried uninstalling/reinstalling PS. The result was interesting. Just after reinstallation, things seemed normal, ACR opened almost instantly.

Then I updated automatically to get the latest version. After that, the problem reappeared. The time to open an image is extremely variable. Might be 5 seconds, but most often at least a minute and sometime 5 minutes. The computer doesn’t actually seem to be doing anything during this time (according to top), so I suspect it’s some sort of system issue and not just a question of speed.

LightRoom seems to be able to develop without any real problems, but is slow to open PS.

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jrutt
Oct 13, 2008
I solved this, but it was somewhat painful. Turns out I had a soft link to a folder on a nonworking disk in my home directory. Once I fixed that, there was no problem. Seems that PS must check the files in one’s home directory pretty often, including when it opens ACR. Wny?

In any case, I did a lot of work to discover this…

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