Comments on: Panther: Address Book sluggishness

By: Robin Crosslin

Robin Crosslin — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I just bought a G5 a few days ago with a clean Panther installation. Then I imported all my addresses from my G4 which has been running Panther’s Address Book for months successfully. When I try to do ANYTHING with Address Book on my G5, my pizza spins indefinitely until I force it to quick. Pretty weird, huh?

By: Pierre Igot

Pierre Igot — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

That doesn’t sound “normal” to me… The sluggishness I am experiencing is more subtle. It’s just delays of a fraction of a second in most operations — and it’s obviously related to the number of entries in the AB.

How did you import the entries from your G4?

By: Garret

Garret — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Argh! I’m so glad I’m not alone on this. This is so aggrivating. I just made the switch from Eudora (which I have loved for 10 years) to Address Book and Mail and I’m getting the same agonizing slowness. I hope I find some way to fix this. It’s strange that I can edit huge movies with Final Cut Pro, burn DVDs with Studio Pro, but when I search for a last name, I get the spinning ball. Crazy. I want to go back to Eudora, but I like the idea of having my Palm addresses and email working with each other.

I’m running a dual 1 gig G4.

By: Pierre Igot

Pierre Igot — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

It’s up to Apple to optimize Address Book so that it runs acceptably on what is a fast enough machine!