[scribus] scribus Digest, Vol 163, Issue 3

[Julian Vincent]

I was having just this sort of trouble with a large 5-year-old iMac. Turned out that it was the hard disc giving up. I had the computer overhauled by a local firm. They fitted a SSD instead and the computer works properly and fast. As an intermediary cure, but not permanent, back up the HD, scrub it totally, reformat it and reload it. That should get you out of the current problem. But SSD is the way to go. The computer repair guy reckoned that modern drives will last for only 3 - 5 years these days. It’s disgusting. My older computers are still soldiering on - slower than modern machines but OK after 10 years or more.
B.t.w. Scribus now runs like a mag-lev train and is much more stable.

Julian

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> Hi Guys
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> I am struggling, I am up against a deadline (who isn?t in this business) and Scribus is giving me the spinning beachball every time I do anything - I can send a screen video of it if you like.  But counting it takes 15 seconds before any mouse click has an action.  Even bringing up a dialogue box causes the ball to appear and about 5 seconds delay before the window is populated.
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> 48pp A4 magazine with a lot of images.   I have played with different image cache setting but nothing seems to make any difference. I even disabled cache and that made no difference
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> Neither does untick ?SHOW IMAGES? in the view menu
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> Any ideas would be gratefully received
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> IMac 27? 2017 3.5GHz Intel Core i5  28GB RAM.    Scribus 1.5.7
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> kind  regards
> Colin
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