really strange cs3 problem

[woof75]

I have a very strange problem with cs 3 on a mac book, if I have an external hard drive plugged in and I eject it then the whole computer slows right down and it won't speed up until I plug it in again, I don't have any system anything on my external hard drive, it's just files. Any ideas?

[The View]

The "whole computer", or CS3? Anything you do with CS3, or just particular tasks? Try to be bit more specific.

[woof75]

The "whole computer", or CS3? Anything you do with CS3, or just particular tasks? Try to be bit more specific.
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The whole computer slows down. It's a very strange problem, sometimes it happens, sometimes not.

[jerryrock]

Did you set the external drive as a Photoshop scratch disk?

[woof75]

Did you set the external drive as a Photoshop scratch disk?
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No, thats the funny thing, I haven't done anything like that. I was processing in capture shop from a library that was on the external hard drive, quit out of that, ejected the hard drive and computer went slow and it seems to do this from time to time but not every time, strange.

[jerryrock]

Probably some kind of system bottleneck going on with the external hard drive as this is the slowest link in the chain.  Try copying the image to the MacBook hard drive before trying to process in CS3.  That should clear up the problem.