HT201740 Spinning ball with Preview app

When I use the drop down menu to see the contact sheet I get the spinning ball. Finally it will give me the sheet, but then if I delete a page, I get the spinning ball and it takes forever for it to do it. This has been going on since I updated to 10.10.1. I deleted the preferences file but that didn't help. It is possible that I really didn't delete the correct one because I had a had time finding it. I even tried to download a new copy, but I can't find one anywhere. Please help, I use this feature a lot and it is really making me crazy. Also I have 8gb of memory not 4 that originally came with computer

Back up all data. Quit Preview if it's running.
Hold down the option key and select Go ▹ Library from the Finder menu bar. From the Library folder, delete the following items, if they exist:
          Containers/com.apple.Preview
          Group Containers/com.apple.Preview
          Preferences/com.apple.Preview.LSSharedFileList.plist
          Preferences/com.apple.Preview.SandboxedPersistentURLs.LSSharedFileList.plist
          Saved Application State/com.apple.Preview.savedState
Log out and log back in. Launch the application and test.

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Do a backup.
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Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J. When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder. Remove the following. You may not find them all.
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Do you have Parallels installed by any chance? There is a known problem that causes symptoms similar to this. You do not need to actually be running Parallels at the time and nothing in ActivityMonitor would point to Parallels. An update corrects the problem:
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Any easy programs that would allow me to keep the majority of my collected fonts? Do they continue to infect other fonts; spreading like a virus?
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