DW CS3 Mac - delayed work-flow

Our office has three Macs running DW CS3; Two Intel Macs and
one G5... When working with files from ANY remote server (and with
any file type) on the Intel Macs the work flow is very sluggish /
delayed (i.e. any action takes about 3-5 seconds to respond). This
issue is not present when reverting to version DW 8. The Mac with
the G5 does not have these issues.
We had a Mac certified technician come out to see what the
issue is. He could find NO hardware/ network problems. He said that
this is an issue that will probably be resolved in Adobe updates to
come...
Can anyone shed light on this issue? I can't understand why
CS2 works fine, but not CS3 which is supposed to be more Intel Mac
friendly.
Thanks - Bob

There is an issue that sounds very familiar to this but it is
closely related to Leopard as opposed to Tiger. Are these newer
Intel Macs running Leopard? If so there are updates planned for
this.
There is also another bug, I would have to check the kb
article again to be sure, but it dealt with a slow load time to
freezes when putting remote image locations in the documents (ie:
when you make an HTML email file). I don't remember whether this
issue was a Leopard issue or it could have been an Intel issue
which could be indirectly related to what you are experiencing.
If workflow is an issue right now I would say for your
business stick with 8 especially if there is not a specific reason
for using CS3 (ie: new feature). Then I would wait until about the
end of the year, early next year when the first wave of updates is
supposed to be released (mostly for those Leopard updates).
BTW, in case you were wondering, you can keep both
installations on there on the Mac because there are 2 separate
preference files in the library so this way you don't have to go
through re-installing again.

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Message was edited by: monaya

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