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| From | Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.mac.system |
| Subject | Re: Beach Ball Blues Again |
| Date | 2018-06-04 18:20 +0000 |
| Organization | People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates |
| Message-ID | <fnle6iF725oU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
| References | <1npv4w3.vm5nuo12yd9scN%csampson@inetworld.net> |
On 2018-06-04, Charles H. Sampson <csampson@inetworld.net> wrote: > I'm seeing a lot of spinning beach balls (or pinwheels) on my newish > iMac running 10.12.6. These are close to disabling at times, forcing the > user to do something else while waiting. They appear most often in Word, > but Chrome isn't far behind. Sometimes they appear as Finder is > launching an application. > > Any ideas? > > By "newish" I mean less than one year old. I posted a similar question > around four years ago, but I was running a way-outdated system on an old > computer then. The first diagnostic step you should take is to look at /Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor during the beach ball to see what app or apps are using resources (CPU/RAM/etc). Also, you should run /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility to verify the integrity of your startup volume. Report back here with your findings. -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR
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Beach Ball Blues Again csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) - 2018-06-04 09:06 -0700
Re: Beach Ball Blues Again nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-06-04 12:11 -0400
Re: Beach Ball Blues Again Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-06-04 10:41 -0700
Re: Beach Ball Blues Again csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) - 2018-06-06 10:22 -0700
Re: Beach Ball Blues Again dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2018-06-07 13:49 +1200
Re: Beach Ball Blues Again Alan Baker <nunya@ness.biz> - 2018-06-07 07:05 -0700
Re: Beach Ball Blues Again Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-06-08 09:00 -0700
Re: Beach Ball Blues Again Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2018-06-04 18:20 +0000
Re: Beach Ball Blues Again gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2018-06-04 14:40 -0700
Re: Beach Ball Blues Again Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-06-04 14:50 -0700
Re: Beach Ball Blues Again "Tyrone F. Horneigh" <Nunya@Business.net> - 2018-06-04 19:26 -0400
Re: Beach Ball Blues Again Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-06-05 00:22 -0700
Re: Beach Ball Blues Again Elden <usenet@moondog.org> - 2018-06-04 19:04 -0700
Re: Beach Ball Blues Again Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2018-06-05 10:02 +0000
Re: Beach Ball Blues Again csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) - 2018-06-06 10:18 -0700
Re: Beach Ball Blues Again Percival John Hackworth <pjh@nanoworks.com> - 2018-06-06 11:33 -0700
Re: Beach Ball Blues Again Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2018-06-07 09:20 +1200
Re: Beach Ball Blues Again nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-06-06 17:40 -0400
Re: Beach Ball Blues Again Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2018-06-07 01:03 +0000
Re: Beach Ball Blues Again nmassello@yahoo.com (Neill Massello) - 2018-06-07 05:28 -0600
Re: Beach Ball Blues Again Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2018-06-07 16:36 +0000
Re: Beach Ball Blues Again Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2018-06-17 17:38 +0000
Re: Beach Ball Blues Again Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2018-06-07 00:53 +0000
Re: Beach Ball Blues Again Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-06-07 08:56 -0700
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