Mail: slow typing response

Howdy,
Mail seems to have a bad problem with slow response to typing. Maybe I should check Activity Monitor the next time I experience that.
Good Luck,
Herb Schulz

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Mail slow typing

Since upgrading to Yosemite, I have experienced slow typing when composing a message in Apple Mail. Frequently, the letters appear on the screen 5 seconds after they are typed. It is so slow that the Mail program is essentially unusable. I posed this problem to Applecare and, after five attempts to correct the problem, I gave up. It seems they don't know what is causing it.
Is anyone else experiencing this problem? Does anyone have a solution?

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PowerPoint 2010 - slow typing response

I've tried several things that have been suggested - turning off spell check as you type did nothing. Seems the problem is related to opening existing files - don't have this slowness issue when I open PPT and start a new presentation.

The problem is POOR coding by the Microsoft Office Developers.
I know the exact issue here and why some have no problems on new presentations but later they are bad. This is not a printer driver issue. This is not because you are editing existing files. This is not a backgrounds issue - this is an issue with the preview
thumbnail pane.
I don't know what it is actually called but it is the little pane on the left side that shows you the thumbnail view of all of your slides. If you close this pane then you will have slow keyboard response. If you have it open then everything works fine.
This was not a problem in previous versions of PowerPoint so this is clearly some stupid enhancement the idiot developers caused in the new version.
Again, open and keep open the preview/thumbnail view of slides and you will be able to type fast, without a delay. If you hide it, then you will have slow performance. This is why people don't see the problem on new presentations because that typically opens
with the thumbnail pane open and so it looks like you are typing fine. But then when people use existing presentations where most people hide that thumbnail panel, it looks like you have slow performance.
I can't find anywhere on Micro$ucks site on how to tell them to fix this so this is the only place I can post. They are total idiots that don't every check their products before they roll them out so I'm not surprised by this. The quality control is awful.
Try making a graphics slide that has a bunch of lines/text/shapes/etc and then do a select all and group it and then try to copy/paste that selection to another slide and you will sometimes see the text all messed up, or lines out-of-place. This was not an
issue in previous PowerPoints but 2010 screwed up a lot of stuff and stuff that should have easily been checked by beta testers because they are fundamental to the product. PATHETIC.

Slow typing response

The response time for typing is very slow. I tried online and desktop application, but still there is a uncomfortable delay of displaying the typed letters. I am working on a Acer Netbook, Windows 7, 1 GB Ram.
Thanks for help,
Carsten

Hmm well with 1.25gb something is definitely up.
From the top of my head
a) Belt and braces, take the ram cover off and make sure both chips are firmly seated - I know the system profiler shows them, but you never know!
b) Ensure your disk is not close to full
c) if you have lots of icons on the desktop, consolidate them into one folder on the desktop to reduce the total number of icons.
d) Run activity monitor - check cpu usage and memory usage under normal conditions and immediately when the problem occurs - make sure you show all processes - it could be a process taking up all the resources.
e) There was an issue related to "kernel task" and 10.4.3 and having more than 1gb that was supposedly fixed in a recent update - it transpires that "kernel task" is trackpad related - so if this is showing at more than 5-6% of cpu then this could be the problem - are you comepletely up to date OS X wise? you could try running on just the 1gb alone and see if it continues. Also, does the problem still occur with Airport running?
Thats the best I can do for the moment - I hope it helps.
PS - I notice you are running 10.4.1 - I'd suggest updating to 10.4.3 to see if that fixes the problem. Have you considered a clean install?

New folder, very slow typing response

Just bought my 2nd 13" mb pro from the apple store, had them install an addition 2g memory before I took it home and ever since I opened the package a couple weird things are happening.
1) In entourage, when I goto make a new sub-folder below my INBOX I type in the name of the folder and the type is very very slow, never keeps up and it jumbles the words in the wrong positions. Eg. I type FITNESS on the keyboard, and it comes up NIFITESS and is very slow doing that. Whats the deal? New laptop, original and registered office installed. (almost like it has low memory)
2) The system sometimes will hang for 5-10 seconds doing normal tasks, always comes back but it acts like it has memory issues
Any help?

I am going to take her in tomorrow, since its new there is no reason why I shouldn't. The PRAM reset "seems" to have fixed the issue. Just not sure why I would have to reset that on a brand new machine 2 hours after it was turned on for the first time, makes me think something else is brewing in there.

"Slow typing in Mail" issue continues in Lion

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Well, when typing in MAIL, the letters manifest VERY SLOWLY. I am know ACE typist, and it can't keep up with me. I type even a few characters, and wait for several seconds for my textual desires to appear.
This was well discussed under Snow Leopard, I see.
Restarting the App often helps for several minutes, but no more.

Slow Typing In Mail: A Permanent Fix???

Ultra slow typing in Mail seems to be a Leopard "feature". Quitting and starting again, restores a semblance of good behaviour. Not as fast as, say, TextEdit, but acceptable. And then it starts slowing down once again... until one quits and restarts.
This seems to be a bona fide bug. Is there a "true" fix?

Thanks Pascal. I know that many users do not have this problem, which is kind of infuriating if you see what I mean... :-))) My only plug-in is SpamSieve which never caused me any problem until Leopard. I tried with or without SpamSieve, and the same problem reappears - slowing down after a few days, until I restart.
I must add that Mail never caused me any problems until 10.4.11 included. Never. This is something new... Next move: I am going to search and destroy any plist file associated with Mail. If it doesn't work, I will reinstall Mail from scratch.
Other users have reported the same problem here, and their posts went unanswered. Their only work-around was also to quit and restart. Strange.
Thanks for contributing

Since upgrading to ver 8 headers and footers on printing web pages do not print; typing response is terrible, type 20-30 char before seeing them; my PC or Firefox 8?

If I do an end task on plugin_container using Windows task manager, the typing response problem seems to go away temporarily. However, the plugin_container process soon restarts itself and the typing issue returns. It has happened four or five times while typing this note. Sometimes I start typing and the display of characters typed does not appear or while typing an displaying what is typed normally all of a sudden stops being displayed and eventually is displayed all in a blast of characters.
When I try to print a web page, the header and footer info that I have selected show in the print preview but disappears when I print the page and does not print on the hard copy.
I believe that both of the above situations began when I upgraded to Firefox version 8.
I tried to search for problems like the above with Firefox but could find nothing.
I tried all of the above in IE and IE works as it has in the past.
Is this a Firefox issue with version 8 or is there something wrong with my PC all of a sudden?

Response to cor-el suggestions:
I tried what you suggested as far as checking the theme (it's "Default 8.0") and deleting the sessionstore files (there was one .js file, one -1.js file and one .bak file). I still have the same slow response problems (especially typing, it has gone dead on me for a short time twice while typing this replay so far, now a third time) and lost of headers and trailers and some data.
I did the suggested actions three times just to make sure that I was doing them correctly. On the first try, the sessionstore.js and sessionstore-1.js was more than twice the size of sessionstore.bak. Since doing what was suggested, the sessionstore.js and sessionstore.bak are, I believe, the same size. I did not write down their size is why I am not certain.
The printing problem appears to only be with one website which is an investment website which I would prefer not to document here. I print from this website each weekday and I have confirmed that the printing problem started when the upgrade to version 8.0 occurred.
I need a solution to this or I am going to either go back to IE (Ugh!) or find another browser. The typing delays are an extreme annoyance since I do lots on the Internet including a lot of emailing. The delays also involve the buttons to select functions within a website.
Is there a way to get back to the version previous to version 8.0?

Slow typing in Thunderbird

Slow typing on my new MacBook Pro Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013 running OS 10.9.5 Mavericks and Thunderbird 31.4.0. How to fix?
The new mac has a fast solid-state drive. The typing is slow!
I have an older MacBook Pro Mid 2012 with conventional hard drive running same OS and same Thunderbird version 31.4.0 and there is no slow typing whatsoever.
Isn't it strange Thunderbird would be so sluggish on my much faster mac? Am I alone having this problem? Thanks!

Thanks Pascal. I know that many users do not have this problem, which is kind of infuriating if you see what I mean... :-))) My only plug-in is SpamSieve which never caused me any problem until Leopard. I tried with or without SpamSieve, and the same problem reappears - slowing down after a few days, until I restart.
I must add that Mail never caused me any problems until 10.4.11 included. Never. This is something new... Next move: I am going to search and destroy any plist file associated with Mail. If it doesn't work, I will reinstall Mail from scratch.
Other users have reported the same problem here, and their posts went unanswered. Their only work-around was also to quit and restart. Strange.
Thanks for contributing

When logging in into yahoo mail after typing in password Firefox is adding something, login fails all the time. At yahoo mail Notepad does not work because it is impossible to close the list of items and they cover information, so I have to go to IE.

When logging in into yahoo mail after typing in password Firefox is adding something, probably remembered password and login fails all the time. At yahoo mail Notepad does not work because it is impossible to close the list of items and they cover information, so I have to go to IE.

Only when i go to a different browser (like IE) after i clear it , then all that shows up is the pages i visited in IE , that is what bugs me , why is IE browsing history sowing up in Firefox ??
Basically , i can clear the history in Firefox , and then for a example , go to Craigslist , using IE7 (launching it from a complete different Icon , in other words at that time i never open Firefox) , then after closing out , or even leaving open as it does not seem to matter , i go into Firefox , and hit History , and there is every place i visited in IE7 , on my History in Firefox

How can i send an e-mail to several mail adress typing a group name, similar procedure used un gmail

IN IPAD AIR How can i send an e-mail to several mail adress typing a group name, similar procedure used un gmail wich is very frendly

Before all these updates, one used to be able to create a Group (such as Buddy List), then send emails by clicking on that Group Name. Has not worked for a long time now, though. I wish they would bring it back.

After upgrading from acrobat 9.5 to XI pro my users have complained on slow typing when filling in form that were created in version 9.5?

After upgrading from acrobat 9.5 to XI pro my users have complained on slow typing when filling in form that were created in version 9.5?
The issue is they type but there is 2 second delay when it appears in the field.
Windows 7 64bit

I see, I misread your reference to Reader 11 to mean you were using Acrobat 11, but it looks like it worked out anyway.
The base-14 fonts are special in PDF because they are guaranteed to be available even if they are not embedded. If you select a non-base-14 font for use with a form field, the entire font usually gets embedded, since each glyph it contains has to be available for use with the field. This can take up a lot of space if you do this a lot, and the space isn't reduced if you change back to a base-14 font later because the internal reference to it is not removed. This is caused by the bug I mentioned.
In your case, however, the entire font doesn't get embedded because fonts like it (e.g., large asian fonts with a lot of glyphs, Arial Unicode) would take up too much space if fully embedded. If it did, a 100KB PDF could bloat to 20MB with that one change. Instead, users are expected to have such fonts installed on their system, which is why you were prompted to install the font pack. This despite the fact that the font was not actually used by anything in your document, it was simply the orphaned reference to it that triggered this. This should get fixed in Acrobat eventually so this type of thing doesn't happen again.

Slow program response, crashes when creating titles and dynamic link issues

Dear reader,
I am now trialling Adobe CC OSX with Premiere Pro and After Effects before deciding to subscribe but I am experiencing a lot of issues while working.
I am now working on an animation, but editing raw mxf files also gives crashes and slow responses/ program refreshes.
1) Slow mouse response
2) Slow program refresh while key framing visuals
3) Rendering in PP is extremely slow when AE is open in the background, when closing AE and re-initiate the render in PP it renders super fast
4) Crashes. When I overlay titles in my time line PP regularly crashes
5) Dynamic Link issues when working combined in AE and PP where file connections in the time line get lost when the AE project has too many sequences
I am curious to find out if other people are also experiencing these issues.
I am indecisive in getting the paid yearly plan or move to FCPX instead? Or should I get a new MacPro and is this model too old?
It worked fine 2 months ago, however I was still working on FCP7. After updating it is really bad working with it...
My system consist of:
MacPro mid-2010
OSX 10.9.5 (13F34) (new installation)
2x2,66Ghz 6-core Intel Xeon
24GB DDR3 ECC
Nvidia Quadro K5000, 4GB
2x PCIe SSD 1TB
2x HDD 3TB
2x HDD 2TB
Feedback is much appreciated! Best regards, Alexander

this does work for basic colour correction but not when trying to grade an entire suqence to achieve a specific style, applying a vingette or certain effects have to be done in after effects.
I want to try and get my whole sequence into after effects but preserve the edits and effects added in permier pro, is there any way to do this?
rich

Information on the "slow typing" issue

I think I've uncovered a (maybe the) cause of the slow typing complaints that's worthy of a new topic. I had severe problems with the trifold brochure, and found that some other templates also were "slow typing" templates. After reading all the posts here, with at least a dozen different fixes, none of which fixed my particular probelm, I started experimenting. What I found was interesting.
All my problems with slow typing (seeing the results of key presses show up on-screen seconds after the event) were traced to one single problem - a table format. When text flowed around a table with its Text Fit choice as "Wrap text to follow a square border", typing was slow. With the Text Fit choice changed to "Wrap text to follow the contour", typing was fast. Seems too simple.
This change made a HUGE difference in the trifold brochure, and a noticeable difference in a couple of the others that I tried. Some tables, especially those with pictures, not text, are disguised and not easy to recognize, so if you're having the notorious "slow typing" problem, look carefully at tables in your document as a possible cause.

I am a scientist who needs to write grants and papers with long text sections and embedded figures. I LOVE the way Pages handles graphics but even with a 12 page document with 3 small tables and 2 figures I am waiting 10-20 seconds for the typing to catch up (doing all the suggestions in these threads)! Together with the fact that there is no direct link to referencing programs like Endnote (which I am forced to use to interact with PC-based colleagues) makes Pages decidedly less useful than the Phantom Menace - MS Word. That beast uses 1/3 the CPU percentage and works faster in general than this lean, mean, Apple product. NOTE TO APPLE: Please please please bring users like me back from the dark side!!
eMac G4 1GHz 1 GB RAM Mac OS X (10.4.4)

Slow typing problem

I am having a problem where the type on the screen in Pages 2 can't keep up with my typing speed. I only type about 40-40 words per minutes. This was not a problem in Pages 1. Help...

Hello Appraiser,
there are a lot of posts about this issue in this forum. To maximize the respond of Pages is to:
1) Hide the thumbnail view with the menu: "View/Show(Hide) Thumbnails".
2) If there are a lot of images, shapes or tables, use the wrap option "follow contour" and not "rectangle" in the bottom section of the wrap inspector.
3) If there are a lot of images, shapes or tables with the fix positioned oprion set, Pages has to recalculate a lot the text positiones, because there is heavy text flow in long sections. Try to avoid that.
Do a search for "slow typing", there are more advices and suggestions.
Frank.

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