I’d have a look at Activity Monitor to see if there is a process running that is maybe slowing things down. If this doesn’t show up anything peculiar then maybe a clean instal of macOS?
It is years since I’ve seen a problem with Preview which is my go to for viewing PDFs, markup, rearranging pages, merging PDFs, etc. Thoroughly reliable. Regards, Tony Sent from my iPad > On 19 Nov 2018, at 11:44, Graham Street <[email protected]> > wrote: > > For large PDFs I do this, but smaller ones are usually fine with quick look > until the ‘beach ball’ thing starts with any quick look or preview of any > file. It doesn’t seem to be one specific thing that triggers it starting to > happen. > > Graham > >> On Monday, 19 November 2018 at 11:32, Derek Cross wrote: >> >> It’s much better too view PDFs on the Acrobat Reader rather than Mac Preview. >> Derek >> >>> On 19 Nov 2018, at 11:07, Graham Street <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Anyone seen or have a solution for this ... ? >>> >>> After several (not measured how many) days of doing similar previews, I try >>> a macOS preview to do a 'quick look' at something like a JPG or PDF and I >>> get the spinning beach ball and a 'pause' of what feels like a minute. And >>> then the preview appears. It seems to happen on quick look and also if >>> opening a folder where it wants to do a preview of a file I'm highlighting. >>> The same happens in the Applications folder if clicking on an App and macOS >>> is wanting to show the app's preview icon in the finder window. I did a >>> Malwarebytes scan just in case. >>> >>> Eventually I can't live with it and do a restart. Then it all works fine >>> again, until the next time. I have loads of free memory and around 33% free >>> disk space. I've googled for solutions and tried one (deleting the folder >>> ~Library/Containers/com.apple.Preview) but that didn't fix it unless the >>> restart afterwards was necessary too. I'm currently in the period where its >>> all working fine so can't yet reproduce anything or check on possible fixes. >>> >>> Thought I'd ask the group if anyone else had come across this. No doubt an >>> upgrade to macOS (to High Sierra or Mojave) might fix it but I'm not at a >>> convenient point to do this currently. >>> >>> Graham >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "Sussex Mac User Group" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Sussex Mac User Group" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
