ColdFusion Builder 2 HANGS

I downloaded and installed the CF Builder 2 (Version: 2.0.1 Build: 282422) and almost daily (but not at any regular time or interval) it hangs, then I have to manually kill the process, and often lose some work. When this happens the CPU resources get pegged at 100% or more by the ColdFusion Builder 2 process. I can't identify any specific operation that appears to cause this either; I'm almost always just typing code when the freeze occurs.
I'm on Mac OSX 10.9, 16GB RAM
Has anyone else experienced this? Any work arounds out there?
I'm going to be running out of free trial time and unfortunately there is no way I can justify paying for this product. I was using Dreamweaver (which I still like and may go back to) but has anyone else seen/used a good CFML editor?
Thanks in advance,
Rich

In the vein of “teaching a man to fish”…
Doing a google search for:
cfbuilder.ini osx
turned up first a result at: http://blog.mxunit.org/2009/07/speeding-up-coldfusion-builder.html
where Charlie Griefer added a comment saying:
For OS X folks:
Go to your \CFBuilder.app, right-click and choose "Show Package Contents".
You'll find the CFBuilder.ini under Contents > MacOS > CFBuilder.ini
Does that work for you, Richard?
If not, let’s ask for clarification: are you running CFBuilder in standalone mode? Or as a plug-in atop Eclipse? If the latter, see the “Mac OS X” section of this page:
http://help.eclipse.org/indigo/index.jsp?topic=%2Forg.eclipse.platform.doc.user%2Ftasks%2F running_eclipse.htm
Let us know if any of that helps.
/charlie

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Perhaps others may recognize and resolve this for you. I and others here often can and do offer quick solutions to many problems. And I can appreciate that it’s reasonable to think that something so simple should just work. But in this case I think are simply too many variables that could explain why things are not working for you. And while I can also appreciate that you will prefer to get a solution for free if anyone can offer it, I just can’t even begin to offer all the possible problems and solutions, at least by email, in this case. Again, maybe someone else will make a quick connection.
But I will point out that if you’re willing to pay US$75, I offer a service of remotely troubleshooting any one CFBuilder problem for that fixed price. Hopefully I might help you solve it quickly (when I can see exactly what’s going on in your environment), but you will not pay if I don’t solve the problem in up to 2 hours effort. If you may be interested, see www.carehart.org/consulting/ for more, and if you want to set up a time to get together (over the web), drop me an email at [email protected]
Finally, please note that I don’t often point out this service here on the forums. I generally just offer suggestions (sometimes lengthy ones) without any commercial expectation, so please don’t regard this as me engaging in “abusive unsolicited commercial email”. I’m just offering a possible solution, given the OPs sincere challenge in solving things.
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Milan...
My apologies for taking so long to get back to this. I just did some testing tonight of your instructions as well as those by Kaif above.
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I saw that another user was reporting something similar in this thread: ColdFusion Builder 3 RDS and Remove Server settings reset on each restart so apparently it's not just me.
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You will rarely see responses here from actual Adobe ColdFusion team members. Most of us are just fellow ColdFusion enthusiasts and community members, sharing our knowledge and experience where possible. If you have a specific issue with CF Builder, and want Adobe's assistance, please reach out to their tech support or file a bug report. If you've found an actual bug with CF Builder, but haven't filed a bug report (or checked to see if one has already been filed and then added your vote), the ColdFusion team will never know.
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