Something has happened to my Mac. I am having a hard time opening up programs, especially anything related to the Internet.  It just keeps spinning and trying to open up the program. I cannot work like this!Â
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.7)
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)
The spinning wheel keeps appearing on my computer when I am using my applications, and the only way to get rid of it is by turning off my computer. What should I do?
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MacBook Pro
why do i keep getting a spinning wheel and my computer freezes
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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MacBook
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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. Â
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
i keep getting the spinning ball on my mac for as i have 16gb of ram 1tb of hard drive on the i mac to play with.plus i have an 1tb ex harddrive its a 7500 speed one. that i have just for itunes which i have used 500 of it so far.it may be lag from that hard drive but not sure. but i only seem to get the spinning ball when i use itunes.am i right here thinking that the ex drive i have for itunes is doing this as it can not keep up ?
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iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011), iOS 5.1.1
I have a 27' iMac with internal SDD and HDD. I really like how it is so quiet. It worked really well out of the box though had a glitch which required a reinstall of Lion. Now the HDD is constantly spinning even if there are no apps open that require r/w access to the HDD. I've used pmset to turn it off after 1 min but I'd rather it didn't come on at all unless i send something to/from the HDD. Any ideas how to configure this correctly?
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Yesterday morning during working on the mac, the system started to become extremely slow till the point that even the mouse didn't respond any longer and I only got the spinning ball showing. No webpages opened up any longer and closing the program I was working in (Sibelius 7), took a very long time. Â
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Logic Studio, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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iMac
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.7)
My computer keeps stalling and rotating beachball won't allow me to move forwards or backwards. Ultimately I need to turn off the power. I have tried resetting the PRAM and SMC but neither seems to help for too long.Â
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.4.11)
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Today my emails can not get through. The ball keeps spinning on Mac Mail. There is a triangle next to it, which says when clicked: " Unable to receive Mail: There may be a problem with the mail server or network. Verify the settings for account XXXXX or try again. The server returned the error: The connection to the server "mail.optonline.net" on port 110 failed (error 51: Network is unreachable" I verified disk permissions, reset my modem, rebooted, but nothing. I can obviously go online but can not access my mail in any of my accounts. All software is up to date.  I am able to send and receive email on my iPad 2 (wifi) but not on my iMac.Â
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iMac
I have the spinning beach ball of death on my Mac. I have current software upgrades.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3), Ripping my hair out
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Info:iMovie '08, iOS 5.1.1
I have had my mac for only 1 year and still getting use to the troubleshooting. My Imac keeps getting stucking on spinning circle when I shut down or reboot. I have unplugged all my external hard drives and printer. Nothing seemed to work. Mac OS X Lion 10.7.4 (11E53), 4gb Ram, Processor 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5.
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iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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iMac (20-inch Mid 2007), Mac OS X (10.5.8)
Gray screen spinning wheel. How do I get it to start?
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Ever since the new iPhoto update came out, I can't run iPhoto as it wants to update, and can't seem to complete the update.
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iMac G5, Mac OS X (10.5), Model Identifier: PowerMac8,1
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)
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)
All I get is the blue screen and a recurring spinning gear. What should I do?
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Mac, Mac OS X (10.6.6), Airport / Time Machine
When I have documents open and I walk away for a few minutes, when I come back and resume working, my computer freezes up and the little pinwheel starts spinning. I literally have to unplug it to get out of this frozen state. This has been getting progressively worse over the past three months. They told me to add more memory, which I did. However, the problem persists. Do you know why my computer would freeze up after the screen has had no activity for just a few minutes? My screen saver is set for an hour so I know this is not the problem.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.4.11)
My Mac continues to lock up with the spinning wheel. Is there any trouble shooting I can do before I take it in?
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iMac
I have an iMac G5 stuck on the gray screen with spinning gear. I woke up to it being stuck on a blue screen, then force quit and now it's stuck on gray with spinning gear.
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