Last night Firefox crashed and I got the beach ball icon. Soon every program had the beach ball icon when I moved the mouse over them. I tried to force quit them but the force quit window didn't even come up.
I ended up just holding in the power button and turning it off. What should I do in this situation in the future. I'm guessing that just like with a PC you really shouldn't turn it off from the power button.
My 2008 2.8 - V 10.5.7 iMac has started to show the spinning beach ball on screen when I open most things , its only there for a few seconds things just seem to be slower opening than usual , once some thing has opened it runs normally , If I open finder, or an application the beach ball appears , Ive gone through the Verify Disk Permissions, Repair Disk Permissions Etc and all appears to be Ok . I have a 297.77GB Capacity internal HDD with 124 . 93GB Available . I have 4GB RAM installed , and the iMac is left running over night to perform any maintenance .
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View 8 Replies View RelatedSometimes I will go for a while without using my computer. For example, if I step out for a meeting or lunch. Other times I will just be using an application that does not need to access the data drive which is a WD. When I come back to my computer or try to access the data drive I get the spinning BeachBall. For example, I just came back from being out for a couple hours. I came back to my computer which was not sleeping, only the monitor was. I launched Safari and after going to a few web sites everything was fine. Then I went to [URL] and the spinning BeachBall came up and then I heard the WD drive kick in (like a jet firing up if you will). Then the website loaded and the spinning BeachBall was gone. Here is what I have in System Preferences:
EnergyComputer Sleep: Never
Display Sleep: 1 hr
Put the hard disk(s) to sleep when possible: CHECKED
Wake for network access: UNCHECKED
Does this have anything to do with having Put the hard disk(s) to sleep when possible: CHECKED? If so, does this mean if I UNCHECK it, the drive will continue to spin until I either a) shut the computer down or b) put the computer to sleep? And, this will remedy the spinning BeachBall? I am using WD RE3 drives so if the above is true, do I need to worry about the drive spinning 24x7 if unattended and the computer never sleeps?
I have a beach ball on cursor that wont go away.
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MacBook Pro
what is the spinning beachball and how do i stop it
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iMac (20-inch Mid 2007), Mac OS X (10.5.8)
When moving check boxes in Acrobat Pro 9, the spinning beach ball comes up and stays up for 10 minutes. Not sure if this is a snow leopard issue or cs4. Computer is new. Running x.6, unibody macbook pro.
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View 1 Replies View RelatedWhen I have Mail turned off it happens much less frequently. But, it does still occur...Safari seems to be the other party (and who knows what else).I'm on a brand new Macbook Pro.Aside from hoping that this is resolved with 10.6.3
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Info:MacBook Pro, 2.33 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
I have been experiencing the spinning beach ball. Eventualy my screen turns to dark blue/indigo (not black), then I get Front Row on my screen (V.2.1.7). The only thing that will get rid of it is pounding on keys, usually command or option or escape or some combo of them gets my desktop screen back.It's becomming annoying. I have run disc repair, and repair permissions. This probably happens several times a week (2.3,4) I don't know if there is a way of disabling Front Row ( it may just select something else to appear). I have been thinking about things as drastic as reinstalling system or replacing my Mac.
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iMac (20-inch Early 2008), Mac OS X (10.5.8)
How to stop a spinning beach ball?
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iMac (20-inch Mid 2007), Mac OS X (10.5.8)
After I downloaded the yosemite, the calendar hangs. keep getting the beach ball....
View 1 Replies View RelatedFor the last 4 weeks the beach ball appears when it type in Mail. I went back with the time machine but that didn't stop it. I really need help with this.
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View 1 Replies View RelatedI clicked on my email and I got the spinning beach ball. Couldn't do anything. Couldn't click on anything. Let it sit there for about 5 minutes and tried to quit using the keyboard. Didn't work. I had to use the power button and restart with a force quit.
View 8 Replies View RelatedWhen I open a document, it opens but without text and the title is grayed out. After 5-7 seconds, the text and title appear but the beach ball starts going and I can't do anything except force quit.This started after an odd incident yesterday. I was working on a document I'll call A. I've been editing this document for a long time. So the file is named A.cwk. I'm not sure how I closed or saved it, but it did not appear on my desktop as usual.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI was updating my bookmarks in Safari and decided to get rid of the included News RSS-feeds that originally came with the browser because i use my own RSS-feeds. Shortly after our so beloved spinning beach ball of death appeared. I let it spin a bit but then decided to force-quit Safari. I restarted with knowing i could use my most favorite browser on the mac again but not so. Right after starting it the damn beach ball appeared again and didn't stop spinning. I force-quit again, restarted the app, force-quit again, same ****. I then let it do for like 10min's in hope it's doing some unknown calculations for whatever reasons after i deleted those RSS-feeds, it didn't stop. SO I restarted and thought ok this must be it, this must finally work! NO IT DIDN'T. I then did an Onyx maintenance cleaning to get rid of the web cache, etc, didn't work either. I went to download Webkit in hope that would work but no, it doesn't I can't believe this, WTF?!? All I did was getting rid of those RSS-bookmarks. What am I supposed to do now? Will a re-install of Safari work? I'm not even sure if the latest version for Snow Leopard is available for download?
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OS X 10.4.11 is fully updated. I have run disk utility. Is there a disk defrag somewhere or do I have to take it to a shop? I still have 33 gig memory free, I have 1 gig ram and the speed is 1.42.
While updating to the newest version of OSX I got a spinning ball. After two hours I decided to shut down the system and boot again. But now the spinning ball start spinning at start-up. what to do?
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
I've been having some strange occurances on my 2007 MacPro (2,1) where, in certain apps, the Beach Ball of Death will appear and the app will freeze or hang. I can be using the app for some time and perhaps do one thing, and the BBOD appears, the app hangs and the only way out is to Force Quit.It has even happened once or twice with Finder which forces a reboot.The app it tends to hang most in is Toast, especially when I go to burn a DVD. It will start the burn process, then just hang (the optical drive will start to spin up-- as if to start the burn-- then spin down and the BBOD appears. A Force Quit ensues.I can try to burn again and again but no luck, unless I restart the Mac Pro. Then it will work, no problem.But it has also hung using Mail, Final Cut Pro, Photoshop and especially Time Machine.I've gone as far as disconnecting Time Machine drive just to see if it is the culprit, as the majority of the initial hangs seemed to be associated with seeing the TM menu "clock" spinning, indicative of TM is doing a backup. Except the backup is taking forever and apps begin to BBOD as it spins.I can check the TM Buddy widget, which just says: "Starting standard backup Backing up to: /Volumes/TM Backups/ Backups. backupdb". Normally there's a lot more information than these couple of lines, especially if TM has been going a while.If I try to stop TM using the TM pulldown menu, the BBOD appears and it hangs, yet the clock icon continues to spin. And if I try to Force Quit, it hangs (and on one or two occasions, the Finder has even showed a BBOD and hung.And while I can move the cursor and click around the Desktop, there is no response.)If I click on an app in the Dock, then the icon freezes in the Dock at its Magnification position and I can do nothing to make it go back. Then I usually just do a reboot and all is well for a while.
I did add two extra Gigs of SDRAM about two weeks ago (from Crucial) and no problem.I did use Tech Tool Pro 5 and tested the Memory, which tested okay. Also, I can check Volume Structures with Tech Tool 5 on the main drive and it says everything is good. (I have two internal spare drives and one external firewire 1.5 TB G-RAID) I've used Disk Utility on the OS drive and checked Verify Disk on the Startup Drive and the others and after awhile, it says the hard drive(s) seem to be okay. I've even ran Apple Jack to see if cleaning things up would help but no dice.The only software I've added (on Monday and the problem started Monday) was a Seagate Diagnostic program to test some external USB Seagate GoFlex archive drives-- these are not always connected or mounted to the Mac Pro. When I started experiencing problems and it crashed or hung several times on Monday-- I trashed the Seagate Diagnostic program.The TM has also been shut down and unplugged as I tended to see more hangs and BBOD when it was in a backup process.The first TM backup of the day goes smoothly.An hour later, when it automatically begins another backup, the TM clock icon spins forever and trouble ensues as noted above)I'm wondering if it is my main Macintosh drive.It is a 250 GB drive, about 70% full and has worked fine until now.
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MacPro (June 07), Mac OS X (10.5.6), Duo Core 2.66 Ghz, G-RAID @ 1.5 TB
Why do I get the spinning beach ball of death when using latest skype?
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
After entering my password on the login screen it went white with spinning beach ball.
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MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2009), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I just bought a new Mac Mini and instead of the arrow cursor showing up, that annoying rainbow ball thing is there to take its place .I am becoming so annoyed. My old Mac (which was an OS X) did the same thing, but after leaving it alone the rainbow beachball went away.
The only thing that I just recently downloaded was adobe flash player! The rainbow ball only comes up when I've spent a good half hour on the computer. But after it shows up, it never goes away. And since I just bought the Mac mini I dont know how to shut it down properly, so I just press the power button that is located on the back of the Mini, after I do that the little light in the front fades and comes back again and then fades. Is shuting the Mini down like that making the little rainbow ball appear?And just yesterday my friend (Who is not good with computers) Did something that made the window that I was on big. The window covered the whole screen and just froze there. So I just pressed the ESC button and everything went back to normal. Then after that the rainbow ball showed up.
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Mac mini
When I launch Mail, there's no new mail. When I try to use one of the drop-down menus, I get a spinning beach ball of death, and a program freeze; I can't even access the Mail menu anymore.To bring my computer back to normal, I Force Quit Mail - and that will stop the freeze. What's the best way to restore functioning on Mail given this error?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Every time I try to launch iMovie 08, I have to Force Quit. If not, the beachball continues to spin, and eventually locks up.
I have tried deleting my preferences, fixing permissions, removing plugins from Library/Quicktime.
