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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: spinning beach ball of death
Date: 29 Aug 2015 19:38:26 GMT
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On 2015-08-29, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:
> On 15-08-29 14:17, nospam wrote:
>
>> if it beachballs everywhere, that is also a clue that it could be
>> hardware, such as a failing hard drive. however, if the mac is recent,
>> it may have an ssd, which could still fail but not as likely.
>
> NFS disk access attempt to a non responsive remote host will also freeze
> the mac.  A file section dialogue can cause that even if you don't
> navigate to that disk (in my experience).  I realise few people use NFS
> these days.

The Mac, or just the Finder?

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