A simple Copy operation hogs my CPU!!!

[alexliz24]

I've been noticing that my ArchiCAD 10 on MacOS X 10.4 slows down to a halt (spinning beachball of death over about 15 sec) every time I select a couple of items in my plan window and then Edit>Copy. I switch to Activity Monitor and it reports ArchiCAD going up to >>85% of CPU (it's a PPC 1.67GHz). After the few seconds this lasts, things are back to normal.

Anyone else experiencing this? Any ideas what it may be that causes this temporary meltdown of my Mac?

[Anonymous]

Check if you have some other software running in the same time. If you do close it down and check again if you still have Copy problem. It might be some software incompatibility.

[Aussie John]

A Miki said I think there was a software conflict in windows but I dont know why there is a problem with macs.

[owen]

Yes I also had this problem a while back on a few machines at my old office - I can remember posting in another thread someone had started on the same topic.

It was a long time ago though - just after Beta i think. I never worked out what the cause was but haven't had the problem here - we are only running v10 Mactel though so perhaps it is a PPC thing.

[alexliz24]

OK, many thanks for all the posts, guys. I'm on AC10 817 on 10.4.8 on a 1.67 GHz PPC right now, so I guess it's time to uppgrade to 1010.

Will post back accordingly.