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Spining Rainbow Wheel Of Death!!!

liquidh2o said:
I can duplicate the spinning wheel of death in safari by visiting certain myspace pages.

Then again, maybe that's just OSX's intuitive way of telling me to "stay away, danger ahead." 🙂
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I know exactly what you are talking about. MySpace, people have plugins for music that don't work to well with OS X. If you have Windows Media Player for Mac installed, this will help alleviate some problems (but we all know VLC is better, but its only version 0.8.4a right now). This happens a lot when I visit myspace. My computer slows down for a minute cause it's trying to locate a plugin and download the music/file. Other than that, that should be your only problem w/myspace.
 
It isn't Ram. I have a Dual Powermac G5 with 8 GBs and I get the Spining Rainbow Wheel of Death. It goes away on it's own and it doesn't happen all the time. Firefox doesn't do it. I cleaned the cache and it helped Safari run normal again. I really want to keep using Safari but I use Firefox for emergencies when Safari is spining.
 
oldtimer said:
I tend to use IE as my browser. Is Safari better on a mac and if so why?😕
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Yes, Safari is the best.

It has built in spell checking (Go to Edit > Spelling > mark "Check as your type") - comes in great handy when posting on MR. 🙂

Safari has a built in RSS reader, and Safari installs widgets for you automatically. 😎
 
Go to:

~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safari.plist

And delete or move com.apple.Safari.plist to the desktop. If that fixes things delete it and start over with your preferences.
 
slooksterPSV said:
I know exactly what you are talking about. MySpace, people have plugins for music that don't work to well with OS X. If you have Windows Media Player for Mac installed, this will help alleviate some problems (but we all know VLC is better, but its only version 0.8.4a right now). This happens a lot when I visit myspace. My computer slows down for a minute cause it's trying to locate a plugin and download the music/file. Other than that, that should be your only problem w/myspace.
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Ok I just gave you guys an answer right here. I have a feeling it is this. Because it happens on my brand new iBook G4 - why would it if its brand new? Everything else runs smooth, but not MySpace.com
 
I get this too

I get the annoying beach ball too. It doesn't seem to discriminate between Safari OR Firefox. It does seem to be tied to whenever a new window is opened. I've never been able to figure it out.

I thought it was a RAM issue, on my 2 year old MacBook Pro, but I actually experienced the exact same problem with a brand-new Mac desktop too.

Dumbfounded.
 
Old thread...current problem

I get this all the time, the spinning rainbow/beachball...but never heard the "of death" suffix til just now reading this. It happens on my Macbook when I have more than 2 screens or apps going at once. Really annoying, been going on for awhile, and I thought it was simply a sign of delay.
 
vespagirl said:
I get this all the time, the spinning rainbow/beachball...but never heard the "of death" suffix til just now reading this. It happens on my Macbook when I have more than 2 screens or apps going at once. Really annoying, been going on for awhile, and I thought it was simply a sign of delay.
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Blimey, thread's dead since 2005 and suddenly people are posting again!

A friend of mine had this last year and I just did the following general 'spring cleaning' tasks, which sorted it.

Have you folks done any routine housekeeping on your machines? I've seen it do the trick in the past.

First of all, if you haven't already, do Apple>Software updates and install anything there is available.

next go to Applications>Utilities>Terminal

In terminal type:

Code: 
sudo periodic daily weekly monthly
<type in your password>
Then in utilities go to Disk Utility and click repair permissions.

See if it's any better after that lot.
 
If it's a modern version of the Mac OS X (Tiger or later), it does this automatically when waking from sleep.
 
I've been getting it when scrolling down through the context menu and the cursor passes the "Open With" option. It just spins for a good 5 seconds before it responds. I also recently had it occur with the eject menu bar icon.

I just reinstalled Snow Leopard 1 week ago and haven't even finished reinstalling all my apps. I'm not sure what the problem is. (I'm running a 2008 Mac Pro with 12GB RAM)
 
Denarius said:
Which bit? Surely not all of it?
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All 3 of them.

slyreptile said:
I've been getting it when scrolling down through the context menu and the cursor passes the "Open With" option. It just spins for a good 5 seconds before it responds. I also recently had it occur with the eject menu bar icon.

I just reinstalled Snow Leopard 1 week ago and haven't even finished reinstalling all my apps. I'm not sure what the problem is. (I'm running a 2008 Mac Pro with 12GB RAM)
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THAT is a bug in Snow Leopard. I get crazy BBoD's when I try and view permissions from the Get Info, particularly on files/folders that have ACLs in addition to POSIX permissions. Sometimes it'll hang for almost 2 minutes.
 
I've been getting the SBBoD often since I installed SN, never on Leopard. Happens on all programs including ones like Finder. Repaired permissions, did the safe mode thing, deleted the recommended files, done all that junk. Nothing helps. Why is this such an issue to get resolved? Things screamin along, buy the new and improved OS and WHAM! SBBoD. Imac 21" 1GB RAM

Still waiting for a fix on the display, but that's another thread. Glad I got this thing for working with photos... 🙁
 
Hate to say it.. not enough RAM. 1GB is the minimum requirement for RAM. More RAM will do you wonders.
 
yellow said:
Hate to say it.. not enough RAM. 1GB is the minimum requirement for RAM. More RAM will do you wonders.
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Now THAT'S an answer I can live with. I can buy more RAM (may as well go for 4 GB). I can't do anything with an OS. Many thanks. 😀
 
Yep, get as much RAM as you can afford/your machine supports - you will not regret it.

btw, this is a fun site to see how much time people spend looking at the beachball
 
Installed 4 GB. Much better. Couple of apps start slow and display the beach ball, but over all, much better. Thanks again.
 
persistent problem

I have been fighting this on my wife's iMac (Intel Core 2 Duo, OS X 10.6.7) for about the past year, and nothing seems to help. I maxed out the RAM (from 2 GB to 4 GB) and it seemed to help for a while, but it's back. I've tried numerous hardware tests (including TechTools Pro 5 and Apple's), repaired permissions, safe boot, reset PRAM. I've used OnyX to varying degrees of success (clearing caches, checking the drive for errors, etc), but the relief is always temporary and sometimes so short that it seems that my efforts are futile.

This morning, I even got the SBBOD after a reboot, at the login screen (when I clicked on a user).

Any suggestions?
 
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