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The Beach Ball?

macintoshSL

macintoshSL

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Mar 17, 2008
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Hey guys,

Lately, in the past week, I've been getting the beach ball a lot. I don't know what it is but, for instance, right now i could click on a link and randomly i will get the beach ball. Then it takes a few seconds for everything to get back on track.

Is there anything i could to do to stop this from happening?

Thanks in advance...
 
macintoshSL said:
Hey guys,

Lately, in the past week, I've been getting the beach ball a lot. I don't know what it is but, for instance, right now i could click on a link and randomly i will get the beach ball. Then it takes a few seconds for everything to get back on track.

Is there anything i could to do to stop this from happening?

Thanks in advance...
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Have you tried to do any maintenance on your machine? Try this http://applejack.sourceforge.net/#top
 
... beach balling occurring while browsing...
Sounds more like a network or DNS issue.
 
I turn off my computer every night.. so yes i have. What are the maintenance scripts, because i haven't run them before...

Thanks for the quick replys

Activity Monitor:
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Get more memory four gigs and get a 7200rpm hard drive. Bigger the better, get a Hitachi or Seagate and sell your old memory.
 
Wait until your system starts acting up, THEN post the Activity Monitor picture, sorting by CPU usage.

You don't really need to run those maintenance scripts. Clearing caches might clear up some space, but as the name implies, it is designed to help applications run faster not slower. If you suspect that there is a cache corruption causing these issues, then yes, run them scripts.
 
@op is your computers beachball behavior different when you are connected to wifi or wired lan?
 
Sorry, wasn't home all day today...

I think i'm good with my ram for now because i don't do anything memory intensive. Before I repair the disk permissions, what exactly does it do? Haven't done that before.
 
macintoshSL said:
Sorry, wasn't home all day today...

I think i'm good with my ram for now because i don't do anything memory intensive. Before I repair the disk permissions, what exactly does it do? Haven't done that before.
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Yea id like to know what it actually does to.. I repair them often but dont actually know what its doing.
 
Alright, today, I don't know what is was, but I had two kernel panics when dragging a file to a friends flash drive. This might've been because it was formatted for PC.
 
macintoshSL said:
Alright, today, I don't know what is was, but I had two kernel panics when dragging a file to a friends flash drive. This might've been because it was formatted for PC.
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i REALLY doubt that.. I have plenty of flash drives i regularly plug into macs and pc's.. One of them i know for sure is formatted to windows.
Sorry to say, it was problem something else.
 
The thing is that, when i dragged the first file to his flash drive, i got a kernel panic.I restarted and tried again.... same thing. I had my ipod plugged in too if that helps.
 
Restart your Mac and tell us how long it takes for the beach-balls to return, if not right away, then which applications you've been running when it does.

You've got plenty of RAM for most normal purposes.
 
Ok, so its mostly with microsoft word and firefox. Will fixing my permissions help this? how about the SMC reset.
 
If 2 gig of ram isn't MORE THAN ENOUGH ram to run leopard then why on earth did we pay so much to buy a mac?
 
alphaod said:
Tried repairing disk permissions?
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:D I really wonder what this is all about.. I've my Mac since 3.5 years, and I've never repaired the disk permissions.. however, whenever somebody has a problem with his Mac, there's always somebody who recommends do repair the disk permissions. Sounds to me like the "have you defragmented your disk recently?" question so common in the Windows world :p
 
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