Drag & Drop operation takes way too long: Lion & 9.0.5

[dkrz]

Running Lion 10.7
PT 9.0.5
2010 8 core 2.4Ghz Mac Pro
14GB RAM
Mbox 2 Pro
Session at 24bit 48Khz
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This has been posted before in another thread but not specifically for Lion and got virtually no responses. So once again...

Can anyone else verify this behavior? It's a a real workflow killer and is the only thing that is holding me back from using my Lion partition.

Drag an interleaved file from any location or volume to a stereo track in edit window and it takes up to 30 seconds to complete the operation (not including drawing the overview).

One strange behavior is that sometimes, after the drag & drop operation finishes, the edit window itself becomes inactive (title bar grays out). Clicking in the window will not refocus the window. Only using the app switcher and toggling from another app back to PT will the window come back into focus.

And as a last note. If the file being pulled into the session is a multi-mono file, the drag and drop operation functions as expected. Quickly and with no problems. This was tested at several different sample rates and bit depths.

Multi-mono = good (fast)
Interleaved = bad (very slow)

Troubleshooting so far:

*I've reinstalling PT9 with the full installer which I downloaded from my Avid account.
*I removed all 3rd party plug-ins from the the plug-in folder.
*Trashed all prefs
*Turned off wi-fi, time machine, bluetooth
*Disconnected all external hard drives (eSATA & Firewire)

Hopefully this will get sorted out as soon as we are out of the BETA testing phase.

For now though, if any others have the same issue and possibly a resolution, PLEASE post it here! I'll keep at it but I'm running out of ideas...

(This Lion set up I'm using at the moment is for testing purposes only running on a separate internal HD. I boot into my work system volume running PT 9.0.3 & Snow Leopard when I need to get my work done. It's all good there...)

[lancemcv]

The slow down happens when you have a network drive like a USB 2 drive connected via sharing with an airport extreme. I removed the drive, turned off sharing and it stopped taking so long. When you drag a file into pro tools it scans all of your drives. There is another thread on here about it pre lion os. I remember they said once you set up a network drive it will always be slow but when I cleared mine the lag did go away.

[cubivore]

this is still a problem for me in osx10.6.6 and le805. it's been happening since 803. i'm not using networked drives, just a second internal drive. i've tried deleting prefs, repairing permissions, and obviously the 805 update didn't help. i was going to update to 9, but this is obviously still an issue.

[SpinningDisk]

Have you tried turning off your network (such as your ethernet)? Had the same problem. went into preferences, network section and turned off the ethernet. You shouldn't have to do that but......

[dkrz]

Originally Posted by SpinningDisk

Have you tried turning off your network (such as your ethernet)? Had the same problem. went into preferences, network section and turned off the ethernet. You shouldn't have to do that but......

If I need to do that then I'll just wait for the next release that works correctly.

Originally Posted by lancemcv

The slow down happens when you have a network drive like a USB 2 drive connected via sharing with an airport extreme. I removed the drive, turned off sharing and it stopped taking so long. When you drag a file into pro tools it scans all of your drives. There is another thread on here about it pre lion os. I remember they said once you set up a network drive it will always be slow but when I cleared mine the lag did go away.

I have no such setup. No network drive. Also, the term "lag" is a huge understatement. I'm talking an actual 20 to 30 seconds until the spinning beach-ball disappears. Imagine working an 8 hour stretch and needing to do this 50 times...

As stated in my original post, I even disconnected all external drives. I've listed the other trouble shooting as well and the fact that all runs perfectly in SL with the same exact hardware setup. (just a different internal boot drive)

Anyway, this seems to be specific to Lion and this BETA version of PT. (at least on my system). I've been using PT since version 5.x and I've never had an issue with drag and drop until now.

Thank you for the replies so far. Anyone else? I'd like to hear from people that are having this issue running Lion specifically. Please...

[jorg]

I'm the one who started the other thread (not Lion but 9.0.5)

I always had a network drive connected and never had that problem until 9.0.5
The problem has disappeared for me now after I restarted the Mac about 4 to 5 times and hasn't come back since. The network drive is still connected. Fingers crossed. I'm not on Lion yet tho.
If it's a bug in Lion then this needs to be a priority because it really screws up your whole work flow.