The reason that I asked about the platform is that I have had a similar experience with GoLive CS (but not Photoshop CS) on my Mac G4 933MHz with 1.2Gb RAM running on OS10.3.1. In fact the speed, and particularly the response to dragging and clicking was so slow that I was considering ditching it.
However, learned friends pointed me toward the "Journaling" feature (which I think was introduced in 10.2.8 - I skipped 10.2.8 and went straight from 10.2.7 to 10.3) in Panther. In my layman's understanding, this a feature taken from Unix server OSs and keeps track of activity as the OS moves chunks of data round the hard drive as it optimises hard drive data distribution. This is designed to speed up hard drive file system recovery in the event of an unexpected close down.
Looking in the Apple Knowledge Base it says that when working with large files - for example video and music files - having journaling switched on can have a detrimental effect on performance. GoLive handles some pretty big swap files and my friends' theory was that switching journaling off might solve my problem. So I switched it offf (in disk utility) and now GoLive works at a reasonable speed.
As your on Win XP that probably has no interest for you, but it might be useful for other Panther users.
Hope someone else can offer you XP help
----------------------- Best, Francis Newman Webshot Ltd, UK
On 6 Dec 2003, at 17:48, Stefanie Kappel wrote:
Sorry forgot to tell you I am on Windows XP Professional on a Pentium 4 with
1024RAM. Thought this was not really relevant as I am comparing the same
system with Photoshop 7 and now CS and CS is very much slower!
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