Illustrator takes a long time to become active when switching between programs

[jonathan_himmel@adobeforums.com]

[Steve_Werner@adobeforums.com]

What operating system? What Illustrator version? How much memory? How many applications open?

[jonathan_himmel@adobeforums.com]

I had this issue before and cannot remember the files i had to delete to make illustrator work right again.

A description of the problem...
I'll be working fine in illustrator, then click out to use photoshop, check mail, etc. then when i click back into illustrator i get the spiining clock for a good solid minute (feels like 10).

what do i do?

[jonathan_himmel@adobeforums.com]

btw - Im working in Illustrator 10.0.3 in OS 10.2.8 I have 2 gigs of ram and there should be NO memory issue with size of file I typically work on.

[Dee Holmes]

Trash Adobefnt.lst files. Don't throw away Adobefnt.db by the way.

[Big Giant Head]

probably a large clipboard or you are running FileMaker
Illustrator and FileMaker hate each other.

If there is anything larger than a full stop (slight exaggeration) FileMaker goes to a crawl.
The only way I can get it back up to speed is copying a file name in the finder to empty the clipboard.

[jonathan_himmel@adobeforums.com]

thanks holmes! that worked!

[Dee Holmes]

You are welcome, happy illustrating.