CS4 very slow image linking.

We are having a efficiency issues with CS4.
We have a large IDML document with 80 pages and 1800 images. Each image is about 24kb jpg.
If we open the document and InDesign can find images, it will take hours to open the document. And it is very annoying that InDesign stops responding and doesn't show even a progressbar while opening the document.
If we open the document and InDesign cannot find images, it will open the document in few minutes. Then if we fix the location of images and say "Update all links" or "Relink" broken links, InDesign will start fetching the images but it again takes hours..
It doesn't matter if the images are on the server or local machine.
If we update the links in smaller chunks, it will take a few minutes to update all the links. Little more testing shows that the time the InDesign takes to fetch the images increases exponentially when the amount of images increases. That seems a bug to me.
I'm not sure what InDesign is doing when it fetches images but I know it becomes way too slow and it propably does too much.
Is this fixed in CS5? And if not, please fix this.
We are running CS4 InDesign 6.0.6 in Mac OSX 10.5.8 in Mac pro (2.66GHz with 8Gb memory)

Hello,
I have a strange problem.
Some of my images are VERY slow to load,
scale... (any image operation).
I have those 2 images :
http://193.252.5.30/tmp/cat1.jpg (25Ko : 295x551
pixels)
http://193.252.5.30/tmp/cat2.jpg (24Ko : 295x551
pixels)
I wrote a little program which load and scale the
image.
Here is the result :
cat1.jpg
Time to load image : 171 ms.
Time to scale image : 157 ms.
cat2.jpg
Time to load image : 1157 ms.
Time to scale image : 2578 ms.How can this huge difference explained ?
Thanks for your help.Using the Netbeans profiler, I can see that for some reason, the cat2.jpg image is resulting in a hot spot where the scale() method ends up performing a color conversion via ColorConvertOp. Placing a debugger breakpoint on this call and debugging the code using cat1.jpg, the method is never called. So, there is something different about the color models of the two images, or there is a bug in the image reading code that is misinterpreting the image data.
This bug may be what you are seeing:
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4705399

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I have been doing large layouts in photoshop for years for the film and advertising industry. I have recently started using cs4 and found it to be pretty much unusable when working with large layered files. I have followed several tutorials on increasing and optimizing speed, turning off acceleration, etc. I have checked my graphic card drivers and it is still a dinosaur compared to cs3 on my Nehalem macpro. I have also reproduced the same results on my older Harpertown macpro. Redraw, tweaking curves and drawing with the lasso are all very slow. I have two friends who have the same experience and downgraded back to cs3. I have one friend who claims it works fine on his xp64 system.
Are there any artists who really use this program on mac for serious work? -or have most people abandoned it and gone back to cs3? I have found cs4 to be pretty much unusable.
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Nope. I do a ton of maya, c4d and zbrush. I have had no issues with either of my nvidia cards (8800 and GT 120).
If you are saying CS4 doesnt support either of those cards that is rediculous [sic].
Ridiculous is not knowing how to spell ridiculous.
Hey, I'm just trying to help.
I don't see any "GT 120" on the list. The 8800GS and 8800GT are on the list, both with 512MB of VRAM.
I hope you're talking about two different machines. Photoshop does not support more than one card on a given machine, and two different video cards on the same machine spells crashville.
Apple's support for multiple or dual graphics cards seems to be very poor. Many users with two cards report all kinds of trouble.
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/405/kb405711.html
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by Adobe before release of Photoshop CS4. They are listed by operating
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from: http://forums.adobe.com/message/2030437#2030437

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We recently acquired 30x HP t520 Thin Client. At this time, we've already set up our vdi solution (server) and we are trying to config our clients. Unfortunately, we can not update OS image. The download is very slow... and gets stuck, getting this message:
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Hello,
I have a strange problem.
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Hello,
I have a strange problem.
Some of my images are VERY slow to load,
scale... (any image operation).
I have those 2 images :
http://193.252.5.30/tmp/cat1.jpg (25Ko : 295x551
pixels)
http://193.252.5.30/tmp/cat2.jpg (24Ko : 295x551
pixels)
I wrote a little program which load and scale the
image.
Here is the result :
cat1.jpg
Time to load image : 171 ms.
Time to scale image : 157 ms.
cat2.jpg
Time to load image : 1157 ms.
Time to scale image : 2578 ms.How can this huge difference explained ?
Thanks for your help.Using the Netbeans profiler, I can see that for some reason, the cat2.jpg image is resulting in a hot spot where the scale() method ends up performing a color conversion via ColorConvertOp. Placing a debugger breakpoint on this call and debugging the code using cat1.jpg, the method is never called. So, there is something different about the color models of the two images, or there is a bug in the image reading code that is misinterpreting the image data.
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