Opening files in Soundbooth is slow generating waveform

Despite the fact that I run an extremely fast Mac Pro with 8GB RAM, two 3.0GHz quad Xeon processors, and a hardware RAID, I still have to wait for Soundbooth to "generate waveform" even though the visual representation of the waveform appears immediately in the Editor window. Also, on occasion, I can get Soundbooth to open a file without the "generating waveform" message, and the file opens instantly (so I know it can do this). I have tried deleting the three cache files in Preferences to no avail. Is there any way to disable the "generating waveform" functionality?

All of the files are AIFFs (thus uncompressed). For example, when I make some edits to a song file, then save it, the file saves in a fraction of a second, but SoundBooth then says "regenerating waveform" and holds up the machine for ten seconds or so. No noticeable change is apparent in the existing drawn waveform, so I can't understand why the program would do this. It's really slowing me down when I have to edit thousands of song files. Any help would be really appreciated.

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http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/61ec9a99-0027-44cb-815c-0da9276c1c96/dfs-slowness-when-opening-microsoft-documents-and-excel-spreadsheets?forum=winservergen
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Preview(3364) deny system-fsctl
Process:         Preview [3364]
Path:            /Applications/Preview.app/Contents/MacOS/Preview
Load Address:    0x102c9a000
Identifier:      Preview
Version:         ??? (???)
Code Type:       X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [114]
Date/Time:       2012-04-24 13:28:40.470 -0700
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.7.3 (11D50d)
Report Version: 7
Backtrace:
0   libsystem_kernel.dylib                  0x00007fff922a0516 fsctl + 10
1   AppleShareClientCore                    0x0000000105629f4a afp_getMountURL + 112
2   afp                                     0x0000000104e7fe03 AFP_GetMountInfo + 161
3   NetFS                                   0x00007fff8a17c295 NetFSGetMountInfo + 147
4   NetFS                                   0x00007fff8a17e08f GetCompleteMountURL + 68
5   CoreServicesInternal                    0x00007fff86ef1e51 _ZL29addVolumeInfoForURLToBookmarkPK13__CFAllocatorR19BookmarkMutableDataPK7__C FURLmjPK9__CFArrayPP9__CFError + 1535
6   CoreServicesInternal                    0x00007fff86ef12fb _ZL28createBookmarkWithURLAtDepthPK13__CFAllocatorPK7__CFURLmS4_PK9__CFArrayR19 BookmarkMutableDatajbPP9__CFError + 3230
7   CoreServicesInternal                    0x00007fff86ef2443 _CFURLCreateBookmarkData + 1309
8   CoreFoundation                          0x00007fff8d1e3219 -[NSURL bookmarkDataWithOptions:includingResourceValuesForKeys:relativeToURL:error:] + 105
9   Foundation                              0x00007fff91b72fbf -[NSURL(NSURL) encodeWithCoder:] + 239
10 Foundation                              0x00007fff91b2e4ed _encodeObject + 1120
11 Preview                                 0x0000000102cdfb4d
12 AppKit                                  0x00007fff90975f0b -[NSWindow encodeRestorableStateWithCoder:] + 316
13 AppKit                                  0x00007fff90974a00 -[NSPersistentUIRecord generateArchive:] + 177
14 AppKit                                  0x00007fff90975937 recursivelyEncodeInvalidPersistentState + 525
15 AppKit                                  0x00007fff90973ccc -[NSPersistentUIManager flushAllChangesOptionallyWaitingUntilDone:updatingSnapshots:] + 1128
16 AppKit                                  0x00007fff90973836 -[NSPersistentUIManager flushPersistentStateAndClose:waitingUntilDone:] + 182
17 AppKit                                  0x00007fff90973714 __-[NSPersistentUIManager acquireDirtyState]_block_invoke_1 + 53
18 libdispatch.dylib                       0x00007fff8a79b2b6 _dispatch_source_invoke + 635
19 libdispatch.dylib                       0x00007fff8a797f77 _dispatch_queue_invoke + 71
20 libdispatch.dylib                       0x00007fff8a7986f7 _dispatch_main_queue_callback_4CF + 257
21 CoreFoundation                          0x00007fff8d0da06c __CFRunLoopRun + 1724
22 CoreFoundation                          0x00007fff8d0d9676 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 230
23 HIToolbox                               0x00007fff86aa731f RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 277
24 HIToolbox                               0x00007fff86aae5c9 ReceiveNextEventCommon + 355
25 HIToolbox                               0x00007fff86aae456 BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInMode + 62
26 AppKit                                  0x00007fff90918f5d _DPSNextEvent + 659
27 AppKit                                  0x00007fff90918861 -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 135
28 AppKit                                  0x00007fff9091519d -[NSApplication run] + 470
29 AppKit                                  0x00007fff90b93b88 NSApplicationMain + 867
30 Preview                                 0x0000000102c9bdb4
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An attempt to open a pdf file with Photoshop Elements (version 12) resulted in a pop generated by the Photoshop Editor stated "Impossible to execute this operation (opening file) because one of the specified colour is not managed". Is there any mean to ad

An attempt to open a pdf file with Photoshop Elements (version 12) resulted in a pop generated by the Photoshop Editor stated "Impossible to execute this operation (opening file) because one of the specified colour is not managed". Is there any mean to adapt the file to make its reading possible?
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We were looking at migrating to Office 2007. To verify compatibility, several key users have loaded Office 2007 on their machines. There seems to be several problems related to opening files in Excel.
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Thinking that may this was something that was surely fixed now that it is 2008 and the software is 2007, I looked for updates and found that IT had not run the updates. Loaded the Compatibility Pack and Service Pack 1 and high hopes that this would correct the problems. After loading the updates, I found that the File Types had reverted back to their original form without the "%1". Now I was really excited. Why would they reset user changes unless they fixed something related to them? To my dismay, the slow startup was back. I had to go back and set the "%1" back into all of the proper command lines.
As of now, my recomendation to IT is to stay as far away from Office 2007 as possible until Microsoft gets their act together.
By the way...I have tried all of the other recomendations from Microsoft about Excel being slow to start. They make a difference of less than 1 second. They also only make the App start quicker. They are not related to clicking on a file to open it.

I didn't seem to get much help from this forum but I will pass on the fix that I have found.
The problem doesn't have anything to do with the %1 fix that everyone is using. All that does is to open the file before Excel is fully started. In particular, before the add-ins are opened.
You can verify this by changing the command line in the File Types to use a /s parameter which will bypass loading the add-ins.
What I found was that even though I had removed the Adobe AcrobatMaker add-in, the file PDFMaker.xla was still in the XLSTART folder and was being loaded.
Since Office now has it's own PDF functionality, this is no longer needed. I did however want to keep Acrobat so that I could print PDFs from other applications and edit PDF files so I wanted to keep it. Just not in Office.
Here are the steps to remove PDFMaker from Excel.
Choose Start > Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs.
Select Acrobat Professional and click Change/Remove.
Click Next.
Select Modify and click Next.
Expand the Create Adobe PDF menu, then select the Acrobat PDF Maker option, and change the status to "This feature will not be available".
Click Next, and then click Finish to complete the process and allow Acrobat to remove the PDFMaker component. Note: You need the installation disk to do this.
After completing this process, it is interesting that it disabled but did not remove the PDFMaker.xla add-in. It is therefore necessary to remove it manually by exploring to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\XLSTART and manually deleting PDFMaker.xla.
Now for those of you who have already tried the "%1" fix and found that it causes new problems and doesn't fix things, you may have already found out that when you try to remove the "%1" from the File Type Open command line, something puts it back in as %1 without the quotation marks. This causes errors when you open a document that has spaces in it's path such as unable to open C:\Documents.xlsx, Unable to open And.xlsx, unable to open Settings.xlsx. No matter how hard you try, you cannot remove the %1.
So here is 2 ways to overcome this.
You can change the parameter from %1 to "%10". This will work as long as you don't try to open 10 files at the same time.
Or you can edit your registry and remove the %1. The easiest way I found was to open the registry editor and search for excel.exe" /e %1. Notice that this is the end of the command line. When I found it, I removed the %1. If you edited more than just the Open command for XLS files, you will need to keep searching until you remove all of the changes. This will get you back to where you were before you tried the "%1" fix.
There may be other add-ins that cause similar problems. Look in the C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\XLSTART folder to see what is really getting loaded.

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I think I have isolated the source of this problem. It's the Pitstop Professional 9 plug in. I un-installed this, and everything opens quicker than greased lightning. I re-installed it and it's back to slowsville.
Unfortunately Pitstop is essential to my workflow.
Until recently I did my pre-press on a Mac G5 with Acrobat Pro 7 and Pitstop 6.5. I never had this problem with slow file opening. But it seems that the delays would occur when I used the plug-in with large complex files.. So it would open files as fast as you'd expect from an elderly machine. But starting to use Pitstop would result in a prolonged period of staring at a spinning beachball.
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Hi,
I just updated from Maverick to Yosemite 10.10.1
See my system config on this monosnap link:
http://take.ms/2CAxh
I have installed the latest Illustrator CC - 18.1.1
See monosnap link:
http://take.ms/lgqj0
I have a big problem everytime I try to open a file from within Illustrator CC!
When try to open a new folder (with few or meny files) it TAKES FOREVER for Illustrator to render the files in the folder. (Aprox 2-5 minutes...).
Everything on the machine freezes - it's like a big hang! - but after the loooong wait the hang kind of releases and I can see all files in the folder and can open and go on with the job...
When I do exactly the same but from within Photoshop CC (2014.2.2) everything works smooth, quick and fine!
I have turned of Yosemite transparance, checked that I have Verdana installed.
What more can I do???
Please help - this problem is extremely tedious to have!

Hi Evil Lair Bear,
have You find a solution and solved the problem (besides the embedding idea)?
I still have the same problem = extreeemly slow to open files from within Illustrator 18.1.1
We have tons of old illustrator files dating back so far as Illustrator 3.2...
It's impossible fur us at the studio to reopen all old files and embedding pics...
Now we alla have to have to do the annoying work around "find and open the files in finder"...
This is driving me nuts...
Any help would be magic! ;-)

I just bought a new dell quad core 5i and HAVE DOWNLOADED THE TRIAL VERSION OF PHOTO SHOP - its Slow to open up a small file and equally as slow to print why?

HELP I just bought a new dell quad core 5i and HAVE DOWNLOADED THE TRIAL VERSION OF PHOTO SHOP - its Slow to open up a small file and equally as slow to print why?

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