I see this issue so HUGE in forums everywhere and find it frustrating with the support team coming up with lame answers every time, mostly blaming the user and with micro solutions that are temporary. These issues are known issues and keep coming back. Support close the tickets too readily and we can't re-open those cases to demonstrate how this is unresolved.

I've tried every remedy including:

• Uninstall Creative Cloud and all apps and reinstall
• Many times 'Repaired' - pretty much every restart it needs 'repairing'
• Used the cleaner tool
• Cleaned specific cache as instructed
• Made a second user to ensure it wasn't any preferences or cache issues
• Watch the activity monitor and close everything else to work
• Had support help and even up to engineers with no luck
• Rolling back to 2018 version

Creative Cloud and using InDesign seems to take up to 2-3G of my RAM to operate which seems ridiculous and taxes the computer too much. That's nearly 50% of the computer's RAM which doesn't seem right. At times I see that I only have 39MB left in RAM and that causes the whole thing to go slow.

I don't really keep anything on the computer and run external drives so that the main computer is not taxed. Still is slow because Creative Cloud is hijacking my 'virtual memory' apparently. I clean regularly and now have to optimise as I work to make it speed up using CleanMyMac.

Now there is a new update to InDesign v16.0 and it is not compatible with High Sierra but says I need 10.14 or later. I'm very concerned about updating to Mojave as it seems that it will only increase the amount of RAM being used and make the computer unworkable. I can't upgrade the RAM at the moment, and I do need InDesign to earn my living. I've timed some days that I lose collectively hours of lost time with this slowness and crashing - it is beyond frustrating and been putting up with it for over a year since the 2019/2020 upgrades.

It really isn't OK that this isn't addressed by Adobe. There are bugs in the code and the cloud based system is too taxing on the RAM. Surely the old way of installing some software on the machine was more manageable.

Is there any way to reduce the tax on the RAM please?

Current computer: Mac OS10.13.6, Retina 4K, processor 3GHz Intel Core i5, Memory 8GB 2400 MHz DDR4, Mac HD, Graphics: Radeon Pro 555 2048 MB

Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac18,2
Processor Name: Intel Core i5
Processor Speed: 3 GHz
Number of Processors: 1
Total Number of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB
L3 Cache: 6 MB
Memory: 8 GB
Boot ROM Version: 166.0.0.0.0
SMC Version (system): 2.40f0