beach balls

[Acorn]

is beach balls the result of the hard drive (platter). I did a reinstall and its worse now so im wondering if the hard drive is going bad and if a ssd would fix it. it seems like sometimes i click something and it gets stuck with beach ball then i have to either restart or force quit the app to fix it.

 

[GGJstudios]

It certainly could be a failing drive, but it could also be software-related, as in a runaway process. To help rule out software possibilities, this may help:

Performance Tips For Mac OS X​

 

[MCAsan]

Use disk utility to verify the disk and fix a fixable problem

 

[Acorn]

I will look into running disk check. I plan on selling the machine so I need to get to the bottom of it. im not going to just dump it on someone else. if i cant figure it out or suspect a drive problem i will put a ssd in it.

 

[~~Hello~~]

Mine's done that ever since I bought it in 2010. I think in my case it's due to only having 4 gigs of ram and having too many programs open.