Illustrator Is Slow to Save and Close Files

I've been experiencing slow save time in Illustrator. It doesn't matter if the file is very small or is a large .eps, there's a long pause while saving before the application becomes responsive again. There is also a long pause when closing the document, after it has been saved.
Does anyone have experience with solving this issue? I've run Illustrator on a much slower machine without this issue and it's really cutting into my production time.
I'm running Yosemite on a Macbook Pro w/Retina Display/2.5 GHz Intel Core i7/ 16GB Memory / 256 GB HD
Any help is much appreciated!
Margaret

Hi Margaret,
DId disk utility run clean, and did you fix preferences. To run on your startup disk I believe you hold down Command R (to enter recovery mode) after rebooting, and menu over to disk utility.
Try creating a new user, and see how Illustrator runs. If so we know it is some setting/preference that is saved with the account.
Do you have Adobe Drive
Files open, save slowly | Mac OS X
Though the mac does not have nearly as many viruses as windows, if you seen anything like MacKeeper, or what appeared to be false flash updates. Mine was running slow until I uninstalled, and felt like such a fool as there was a little icon on my top tool bar.
Good luck we will get you up to speed just may take throwing a lot a this one until we narrow down the problem area.

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