Mike,
Thanks to you and the other listers that tried helping with my problem.
Late last night I fixed it. I tried the extension manager trick and deleting
the preferences trick but nothing work.
So I went back to what I changed when this problem started. Which was using
the network and the shared printer.
I fixed but don't understand why the problem was there. All I did was go the
the "Chooser" and deselect the shared (serial) laserwriter printer. I went
back to my USB printer.
Photoshop now loads all the files very quickly as before. But the question
still remains why this was affecting Photoshop and opening files.
Doesn't make a bit of sense to me. The rest of the iMac didn't seem slowed
down.
JB
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 09:52:39 -0500
Subject: Re: need help please slightly OT
From: Mike Beede <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> When I use any version of PhotoShop (I have 3) it now takes a minute and
> 35
> seconds to open any file. Either by drag and drop or using the "file open"
> command. Needless to say its driving me crazy.
>
> It all started after I hooked a simple network with an Asante FriendlyNet
> hub, a PowerBook 520 and a Personal LaserWriter 300.
>
> Since the problem I have turned off the Ethernet in the AppleTalk control
> panel and also file sharing. But still have the problem.
Did you try disconnecting the network connection from your
iMac? The first thing that comes to mind (and it may be
wrong) is some ill-behaved device sending out a lot of
packets that are slowing the iMac down, even though you've
turned off networking. I don't know how they put their
system together, but they might still have to service
interrupts and maybe even look inside the packets. At
least it won't take long to check.
If that doesn't work, try leaving the network disconnected and
turning off all the extensions you can. If *that* fixes the
problem then you can conduct an extension hunt to see what
is responsible. Hopefully whatever it is, the system will run
fine without it.
Good luck. Hopefully a real Mac guy (or gal) will respond
with the actual problem....
Mike
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