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Beachballs, apps wont force quit, have to restart.. HELP

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okrelayer

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May 25, 2008
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For the last 3 days i will be in an application (safari 4,actually) and the app will give me the beachball. I have seen the beachball many times in safari 4 so i would just force quit the app. Well in doing that its still shown with the blue dot under it on the dock, aswell as in the force quit menu.

I go to open another app (say iphoto or firefox) and i also get the beachball, and i try to forcequit the app, and it will not force quit.

Only way to cure it is to manually restart my macbook pro.

(i have a unibody 2.4 macbook pro btw_)

i have repaired permissions
deleted and reinstalled safari
and ran weekly/monthly scripts via cocktail.

what else can i do? I am going on Holiday next week, and having to deal with this issue would be a bit of a pain!
 
Nothing has been installed recently. The last big change was 3 days ago during a power outage. It happened over night and my mbp wouldn't go into sleep mode until I restarted. After that all was well until this.

After a restart it's seemingly alright for a few hours then I get the beachball suddenly. It happens in safari it seeMs. But it could be because I'm in the browser the most

I did install ram now have 4 gigs, but that was months ago
 
I will try that later. I bet the power failure effected my ram and such (as things were ok before it). Hope this solves it! Any other ideas??
 
I also have a western digital mybook. I have had it for over a year, i keep my time machine backups and most of my iTunes library on there. These problems JUST started. Never had a problem until now

When i came home i did the PRAM and SMC resets. I was unable to use the computer for a bit afterwords, but now i am on it. I am running more intense apps to see if i could trigger the issue again. All seems well so far. I really hope the resets fixed whatever might have been the problem.

Worse comes to worse, do a complete reinstall, but i would rather not do that.

thanks guys for your imput. Lets hope it continues to go well!
 
okrelayer said:
For the last 3 days i will be in an application (safari 4,actually) and the app will give me the beachball. I have seen the beachball many times in safari 4 so i would just force quit the app. Well in doing that its still shown with the blue dot under it on the dock, aswell as in the force quit menu.

I go to open another app (say iphoto or firefox) and i also get the beachball, and i try to forcequit the app, and it will not force quit.

Only way to cure it is to manually restart my macbook pro.

(i have a unibody 2.4 macbook pro btw_)

i have repaired permissions
deleted and reinstalled safari
and ran weekly/monthly scripts via cocktail.

what else can i do? I am going on Holiday next week, and having to deal with this issue would be a bit of a pain!
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Isn't Safari 4 a BETA. That could be the problem...
 
ok guys. Since resetting the PRAM and SMC i have not had any issues what so ever. I am pretty sure that cured my issue, likely caused by the power outage. Thanks much for chimeing in and helping!
 
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