[OS X TeX] Re: [OS X TeX]

[Richard Seguin]

On May 1, 2005, at 3:41 AM, Martin Costabel wrote:

> Gary L. Gray wrote:
> []
>
>>> On Apr 30, 2005, at 4:59 PM, Rodrigo Banuelos wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>> I seem to have a problem with Texshop 2 and OS 10.4 (Tiger).    
>>>> After I typeset (it happens every time), the color wheel starts   
>>>> spinning for a few seconds (sometime many seconds) and Texshop   
>>>> seems to just stop. Any ideas?
>>>>
>>>> Rodrigo Banuelos
>>>> Math Dept
>>>> Purdue University
>>>>
>> I am seeing this too. It seems that it takes few seconds to  
>> update  the PDF when it is a complex document. I didn't see this  
>> with  previous versions of TeXShop under Panther.
>>
>
> The new feature on Tiger that could cause this is Spotlight. In  
> particular during the first hours after a Tiger installation when  
> the spotlight database is not yet complete, the system is  
> considerably slowed down, and any new file that has to be analyzed  
> (pdfs are deeply analyzed) can take a little while to finish.
>
> -- 
> Martin

I have Spotlight turned off for my entire user directory (I'm still  
pondering the security implications of Spotlight), and I had a big  
problem with TeXShop and the spinning beach ball  last night.

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