To those that may care... I was using OS X Maverick. When I first went to OS X Mountain Lion, I felt things were pretty good - much quicker accessing files, network and email etc. There was an auto upgrade to OS X Maverick, and about the same time iOS 7 hit the iPads. Most of everything went to sh.., um, showers of water.
Flash didn't seem to communicate with the ipad, had problems with the simulator, even had trouble accessing the simulator directory. Itunes even had problems passing Flash generated files to the iPad cotrary to Xcode working fine. Opening files in Finder and other programs (inc Flash etc) sometimes took 30 - 40 seconds to list files. Had trouble in Flash with the code building hint cache, especially if more than one file open.
Yesterday - reformatted the HDD, reloaded OS X 10.8 and Adobe Cloud programs, fonts and files, etc.
Regenerated Certificates (dev+dist) then mobile provision files (as I've done [it seems] 2,436 times in the last two months along with 56 different USB cables).
Today - Flash talks to the iPad and simulator. Currently have 4 large FLA files open and just created a new one - code hinting doesn't hessitate. Passed several 80 - 90 MB apps to the iPad. It may not be that Mavericks has a problem, but today I'm tapping on the keyboard instead of scratching my head.