Actual Status Bar instead of Spinning Beach Ball
When working with larger images or complex art I can imagine that Illustrator or macOS need caching or need to write temp files somewhere.
I work in the sign business so we work with very large images frequently, for car wraps or large wall art for instance.
Often the infamous Spinning Beach Ball appears when moving or copying fairly large images. This can take several minutes.
It would be nice to have an actual status bar instead of the Spinng Beach Ball so that we can see what Illustrator is actually doing and how long it would take to finish its tasks.
In the enclosed screen recording the cursor is a Spinning Beach Ball — this doesn't show however and I don't know how to record it.
The length of this screen recording (about a minute) is representative of how long this process takes; often it takes longer to waait until it is finished.
There's no clue of what Illustrator actually is doing. I just have to wait until it is ready so I can continue working, until the Spinnng Beach Ball starts again.
As a sidenote, we don't see the spinning macOS beach ball when doing some light work. Mostly, it happens when working with large images — I understand that Illustrator is not a dedicated image editor.
Jeronimo
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onenower
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Illustrator确实需要优化大文件（图片）链接或多文件（图片）链接的处理能力，我用13代i7处理器，RTX4060ti，64G内存的电脑处理链接大文件（图片）或多文件（图片），经常会卡死，移动对象或画布非常不流畅（鼠标与对象不同步）