Why would my i7 Quad-core with 20 GB RAM run slowly when using PE12 for Mac

Hi, I am evaluating the trial version of PSE 12 for Mac but it is so slow. Are there any good reasons for this as all other programs run fine.

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The problem may also come from trying to use both sets of applications at the same time while not having enough RAM installed. Adding more RAM may fix the problem.
The problem can arise from corrupted support files such as preference files or Application Support files or corrupted cache files.
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Kappy's Personal Suggestions for OS X Maintenance
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OS X automatically defragments files less than 20 MBs in size, so unless you have a disk full of very large files there's little need for defragmenting the hard drive. As for virus protection there are few if any such animals affecting OS X. You can protect the computer easily using the freeware Open Source virus protection software ClamXAV. Personally I would avoid most commercial anti-virus software because of their potential for causing problems.
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When you install any new system software or updates be sure to repair the hard drive and permissions beforehand. I also recommend booting into safe mode before doing system software updates.
Get an external Firewire drive at least equal in size to the internal hard drive and make (and maintain) a bootable clone/backup. You can make a bootable clone using the Restore option of Disk Utility. You can also make and maintain clones with good backup software. My personal recommendations are (order is not significant):
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Carbon Copy Cloner
Data Backup
Deja Vu
iBackup
JaBack
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MimMac
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SuperDuper!
Synchronize Pro! X
SyncTwoFolders
Synk Pro
Synk Standard
Tri-Backup
Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQs on maintenance, optimization, virus protection, and backup and restore.
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I recently bought a new computer and tried installing CS3 Master collection on it and I'm having some problems.
The new computer has an AMD quad core processor, 4GB of ram, 3 hard drives set up in a RAID 5, and a high end Nvidia graphics card. I'm using Windows XP Pro 32bit for an OS. I've already updated all drivers for everything and there are no hardware conflicts.
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I do have exactly the same problem on dual Xeon with RAID 5. The culprit is RAID 5, but I did not found any solution yet. Did you?
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julian6400 wrote:
In addition, the 32 bit server will come alive (NOT! So unstable i find) with my Waves plugs etc.
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julian6400 wrote:
So i regularly run at least 30 VI's - Ni The giant, Spitfire Orchestral librabies (say 12 string instruments up to 0.69g per load) LASS strings, plus perc STYLUS, ABBEY road drums, Trillian basses (acoustic/electric), ominisphere etc etc. So pretty hefty sample instruments. But theyre sooo nice!!
Some of these VI's are extremely CPU hungry: Abbey Rd drums for example, really do hammer the CPU. What does Logic's Performance meter show in the way of CPU load. What does Activity Monitor show regarding CPU load?
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I presume that you have plenty of free space on the System drive?
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