[l008com]

Someone I know has developed this strange problem on their PowerBook G4. The first file they open in photoshop takes forever to load, like well over a minute. Photoshop opens normally. And after the minute or so for the first file, subsequent files open in no time. Its just the first file you open the first time the app launches takes a ridiculous amount of time. We tried throwing away ALL photoshop prefs, and the app, and doing a fresh install. But that doesn't seem to have any effect on this strange problem. Any ideas?

[lenox]

Sounds like a font problem. Try seeing if your friend has TONS of fonts. Fonts are read during the first instantiation of the program.

[l008com]

But see, the program opens normally, if you're not opening a file, you can open photoshop and immediately create a new file and work away, only opening a file, does it make you wait a few minutes, and only on the first file.

[SS3 GokouX]

I get a very similar problem, but it's not always the first file I try to open. I can be opening tons of images, edit, save, close them and sometimes when I try to open another file it will just sit there for a minute. Whenever it happens, I get the watch cursor, with its minute/hour hand ticking away; and not the spinning color cursor that OS X uses when a program refuses to respond. So Photoshop is definitely doing something but I'm not sure what. Maybe it's trying to read a corrupted embedded color profile, maybe some metadata?