5 minute delay when clicking open 'Publisher'

[sebjenkins]

Hi,

Pls excuse me if this post has been entered into the worong forum but I just wasn't sure where was the best home for it....
So here goes....I have a designer running a PowerMac G5 with OSX 10.3.8. He has the Adobe Creative Suite installed running in OSX and he is also running Quark Xpress 4.11 in the Classic enviroment.
The problem is that when he double clicks on an image in a Quark Document, he then gets the option to open 'Publisher' (the app that this image was created/saved in). So he clicks this but instead of immediately launching PhotoShop CS like it did on OS9 booting Mac, it sits there with the spinning dial for about 5 minutes then eventually PhotoShop opens. So it does work but this very straight forward command is struggling badly.

Is it simply because its switching Operating systems to do this ?

 

[jmgalvin]

The Publisher format is a real bear. I'm guessing that's where the problem is cropping up. I have the same software setup as your guy - but on a slower G4 - and have not experienced the lag problem, when switching between classic apps that I use (Quark and Dreamweaver) and PS CS and/or ILL, ID, and Acrobat CS.

If you have things that came in a publisher folder, you might try clicking once on it in Finder, go to File menu/Get Info, and, in the Open With menu on the Get info window, select Photoshop CS and then check Default, That should make things a little faster.

One thing you could try is, in Photoshop CS, going to File menu/Browse and going to the folder where any of the publisher pics are stored. That cahce will give you instant access to all the pics.