Beach Ball Loading & Emptying Trash Problems

[Afro1989]

Hello. It has been five months since I've have my Mac Mini and this is the first time I've experienced problems. I am getting the beach ball when I attempt to do simple tasks like searching Candybar in Spotlight. I just get a never-ending spinning beachball and was forced to do a hard shut down a couple of times.

Also, it is starting to have trouble emptying the trash when there are only a few pictures in it.

What should I do to repair this? Repair Permissions?

 

[x86]

What should I do to repair this? Repair Permissions?

It can't hurt to try...

 

[mad jew]

How much free space do you have on your hard drive? If you open up Activity Monitor, is there a process or series of processes using up a lot of your resources? Make sure you're looking at All Processes and not just My Processes. There's a drop down menu up the top. 🙂

 

[Afro1989]

I have plenty of space left on my hard drive. 76 GB out of about 93 GB.

 

[mad jew]

Cool. Any rogue processes? Activity Monitor is in your Utilities folder FWIW. 🙂

 

[Afro1989]

What exactly should I be looking for in Activity Monitor?

 

[mad jew]

Sort by CPU and then RAM to see if there's a process using up a lot of your resources. Also check for processes in red that may be hanging. 🙂

 

[Afro1989]

Would this help?

 

[mad jew]

Excellent, yes, but click where it says Active Processes and select to show All Processes. 🙂

Cool looking theme BTW. What's it called and what other system changes do you have installed? Often these can be the cause of problems like yours. 🙁

 

[Afro1989]

Um, it's called Milk theme and I'm using Shapeshifter. I also have Tinkertool installed and that's about it. 😕

 

[mad jew]

Okay, there's nothing hanging and nothing that I can see that's taking up many resources. Maybe open a new user account and see whether the slowness is present there, too. 🙂

 

[Afro1989]

Thanks man! I'll tell you if I have any problems.