Intel Mac :: It Recently Shows Colored Spinning Wheel And Freezes
May 22, 2012My imac recently shows colored spinning wheel and freezes. what this means?
Info:iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.6.8)
My imac recently shows colored spinning wheel and freezes. what this means?
Info:iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.6.8)
My iMac is really slow when I turn it on. The internet starts to come up but I get the dreaded spinning colored wheel. I have another Windows computer that hits the internet immediately. I am seeing the spinning wheel more and more all the time.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I changed the permissions from read only to read and write on my start up HD and chose the change everything inside option to read and write. After I did this, my secondary HD no longer allowed me to use it saying I did not have permission. When I tried to change it all selections were in custom mode and would not accept my changes. Same with my main HD.
I rebooted and the grey screen shows up with icon and no spinning wheel. I tried safe mode...same thing. I even tried booting off my back up firewire drive and got a null sign on the grey screen instead of an apple icon. Booted up from the G5 disk and tried to run utilities permissions repair and it would not do it, gave me an error, "No valid packages". Ran disk repair and it said nothing needs repairing. I then booted up using Disk Warrior and rebuilt the HD's directory successfully, but still the G5 will not boot past the icon grey screen, no spinning wheel. I'm spinning though...HELP, I'm dying here. FYI this is a G5 dual core Cypher running Leopard with 3.5 gigs of ram. The start up HD is 250 gig and the secondary is 500 gig
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
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My 24" iMac seems to gets the spinning colored ball a lot, seems it is running slow a lot more than it did before?
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My mac is often stalled with spinning wheel. What is best method to fix it?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.7)
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I'm getting spinning wheel in my Mail for long periods of time when I begin to type a users email address, sometimes takes several minutes to load the email. My address book isn't that large where this should be issue.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
Shut down computer last night because after restarting it would not open. A little gear-looking circle just spins round and round. Started up computer this morning and it's the same situation . .gear circle just spins around. I know the battery is fully charged.
I'm using a different computer to write this.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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iMac
My mac has crashed many times so I turn it off and on, but not it wouldn't start up.. just spinning away..
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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iMac
My early Intel iMac (2006) won't shut down - gray spinning wheel and blue screen for more than 2 hours now. Can I safely turn it off with the power button? (I'm a little paranoid after a bad experience doing that with my MacBook Pro).what I should I do then?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.4.7)
Every time I try to start up the app, I just get the spinning wheel of death.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
After having done a software update my computer doesn't start any more. It stays blocked at startup (grey screen) with the dotted wheel spinning endlessly under the apple logo. What should I do ?
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iMac (21.5-inch Late 2009), Mac OS X (10.6.6)
I Have a grey screen with the spinning wheel at startup and won't go away
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iMac
I had LogMeIn installed on my iMac and it worked fine for a while. Then the icon for the program in the menu bar at the top of the screen went gray. When I hover the mouse over the icon a spinning pinwheel appears, so I can't click the icon to start the program. I deleted the program and then reinstalled it, but the gray icon and spinning wheel never whent away. how to delete the spinning wheel
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
I just tried to upgrade my iMac to snow leopard (10.6.3) from cd.It remains stuck on the start page since hours : white page with grey apple logo and no spinning wheel or progression bar.
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iMac
Mac won't boot, starts with white apple screen and spinning wheel. Also has grey loading bar which disappears after loaded then stays at white apple screen.
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iMac (24-inch Early 2009), Mac OS X (10.7.4)
MacBook Alum 13' Late 2008.
When I insert/take out my earphones in/out of the headphone jack it takes OSX about 12 seconds to figure out I have done that and switch audio output settings & set the volume. All those 12 seconds the system seems to be like hung with the colored spinwheel cursor spinning. I have resetted PRAM, and also upgraded 10.5.7 to 10.6.1 but the problem is still here.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.4.4)