System freezes when Text boxes. lines of fills are selected.

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I'm experiencing a few problems in ArchiCAD, but also any Adobe application. When I click on a text box, line, fill or wall (or anything) in any view, the system freezes for around 5 seconds before the application responds. What I mean is, each time I want to click on something, Archicad/Adobe doesn't respond and my Dock (Mac) freezes, but does not crash.

Obviously this is making it very difficult to work properly and I need help. I've posted the problem on a Mac forum since I can't solve it myself. I was wondering if anyone, especially on Mac has experienced anything like this.

My Computer spec. if in my Signature.

Thank You

[Ralph Wessel]

NStocks wrote:
I'm looking into Activity monitor now, but I'm not sure what would differentiate between normal mode and safe mode to causes such issues.

Safe Mode disables many non-essential system/kernel extensions. You can see a more complete description here. I'm inclined to think that something you installed after purchasing the machine is causing the problem. The question is, which one is the culprit?

The font issue raised by ejrolon is also worth investigation because Safe Mode also disables all non-essential fonts. You can check them with Font Book by selecting "All Fonts", and then the menu item "File > Validate Fonts".

You could narrow this down by disabling items. The easiest target is startup/login items. Go into System Preferences and click on Accounts. Select your account and click the 'Login Items' tab to the right. Can you send a screen-grab of the list you see there?

Also, did you try disabling Bluetooth and networking as I suggested earlier?