4 Replies Latest reply: Jul 28, 2009 1:22 PM by AynRandWasRight RSS

    Cursor 'Yips"

    AynRandWasRight Community Member

      I'm observing some strange new behavior (InD CS4 Mac - 6.0.3).

       

      When I open a file and start working, I'm noticing the cursor flip back and forth between normal and a spinning beachball. The beachball is momentary - the interval appears to be about 8 seconds.

       

      At first, I thought it might be related to a project involving PSD duotone files, but I'm working this morning on tables in a 4-color project and am seeing the same thing. As implied, I'm seeing this across files.

       

      Preflight is off; Display Performance is set to Typical (changing doesn't seem to make a difference).

       

      This is really driving me crazy - I'm all set to type something and the beachball takes over just long enough to stop me cold.

       

      Anyone have any idea what might be causing this?

        • 1. Re: Cursor 'Yips"
          Eric @ MCA Community Member

          Is active spellcheck off too? And the Page thumbnails might be a candidate, although if it's a one-page document, I doubt it's involved.

           

          Also, if you have any 3rd party plugins, try disabling them and see if it goes away. Might be something weird coming from one of them.

           

          Finally, verify you don't have multiple copies of any fonts activated somehow. I've seen very weird behavior from documents when there are multiple copies of the same font running.

          • 2. Re: Cursor 'Yips"
            AynRandWasRight Community Member

            Good suggestions - but no cigar. I don't see any duplicate fonts in the list, but I'll try turning most of them off temporarily.

            • 3. Re: Cursor 'Yips"
              Deecey52

              Does your project have cross references?  I was seeing this on a project recently, and it was worse in documents that had a lot of cross references. Documents with no cross references in them didn't exhibit the spinning cursor.

              • 4. Re: Cursor 'Yips"
                AynRandWasRight Community Member

                No cross references.

                 

                So far, nothing has helped. It did seem that when I began work this morning, things were fine for awhile (after trashing all of InD's caches, saved data, etc.). The problem returned, tho, after working for around 15 minutes or so.

                 

                I have a suspicion that fonts are involved in this, as was suggested earlier. Just can't seem to nail the trigger or the culprit ...