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Re: Beach Ball Blues

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In article <lod01e$2qq$1@dont-email.me>, Jonathan L. Parker
<jlparker001@GOAWAYSPAMMERsbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 6/24/14 2:24 PM, Charles H. Sampson wrote:
> >
> > This is just an informational question. Does anyone have any idea
> > what's going on? I thought that maybe the main disk is failing,
> > requiring a bunch of retries, but it's a S.M.A.R.T. disk and Disk
> > Utility says that it's reporting everything fine.
> 
> Been a while since I've been up close and personal with Tiger.  Had to 
> upgrade my MacBook Pro to Snow Leopard to add some needed stuff a couple 
> of years back.  From my experience with both OS X versions, however, it 
> sounds like it's time to reformat the drive, reinstall the operating 
> system and restore everything else from backup.  Just had to do that 
> myself last week as a matter of fact.  It did banish the beachballs, at 
> least until next time.  Too bad you don't have Time Machine to help you.

Ewwwwww... that's a silly Windoze solution and usually completely
unnecessary (unless there are some corrupted system files).

Best to start with simple options like performing the routine cleanup
tasks, clearing out the caches, etc.

Also try creating a new user account and see if that fixes the problem.

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Beach Ball Blues csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) - 2014-06-24 12:24 -0700
  Re: Beach Ball Blues Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-06-24 20:03 +0000
    Re: Beach Ball Blues csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) - 2014-06-26 17:42 -0700
      Re: Beach Ball Blues Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-06-26 20:48 -0400
      Re: Beach Ball Blues Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-06-27 01:56 +0000
        Re: Beach Ball Blues csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) - 2014-08-05 17:35 -0700
          Re: Beach Ball Blues Kevin McMurtrie <mcmurtrie@pixelmemory.us> - 2014-08-05 22:28 -0700
  Re: Beach Ball Blues "Jonathan L. Parker" <jlparker001@GOAWAYSPAMMERsbcglobal.net> - 2014-06-24 18:02 -0500
    Re: Beach Ball Blues Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-06-25 13:22 +1200
      Re: Beach Ball Blues "Jonathan L. Parker" <jlparker001@GOAWAYSPAMMERsbcglobal.net> - 2014-06-25 00:39 -0500
        Re: Beach Ball Blues Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-06-25 18:10 +1200
    Re: Beach Ball Blues Mike Smith <fake.address@fake.com> - 2014-06-27 01:21 +0000
  Re: Beach Ball Blues Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-06-25 13:28 +1200
    Re: Beach Ball Blues csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) - 2014-06-25 10:04 -0700
    Re: Beach Ball Blues Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2014-06-27 07:40 -0700
      Re: Beach Ball Blues Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-06-28 12:28 +1200
    Re: Beach Ball Blues Walter Bushell <proto@panix.com> - 2014-07-08 08:34 -0400
      Re: Beach Ball Blues Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-07-09 09:32 +1200
        Re: Beach Ball Blues nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-07-08 19:19 -0400
    Re: Beach Ball Blues Paul Magnussen <magiconinc@earthlink.net> - 2014-08-06 08:30 -0700
      Re: Beach Ball Blues android <here@there.was> - 2014-08-06 18:26 +0200
        Re: Beach Ball Blues Paul Magnussen <magiconinc@earthlink.net> - 2014-08-06 11:16 -0700
          Re: Beach Ball Blues nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-08-06 14:19 -0400
            Re: Beach Ball Blues Paul Magnussen <magiconinc@earthlink.net> - 2014-08-06 11:48 -0700
              Re: Beach Ball Blues Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-08-06 18:59 +0000
                Re: Beach Ball Blues Kurt Ullman <kurtullman@yahoo.com> - 2014-08-06 15:54 -0400
              Re: Beach Ball Blues dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2014-08-07 11:16 +1200
                Re: Beach Ball Blues Paul Magnussen <magiconinc@earthlink.net> - 2014-08-07 08:36 -0700
          Re: Beach Ball Blues android <here@there.was> - 2014-08-07 16:06 +0200
      Re: Beach Ball Blues nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-08-06 22:52 -0400
        Re: Beach Ball Blues Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2014-08-06 21:25 -0700
  Re: Beach Ball Blues Rick Blaine <boss@cafeamericain.ma> - 2014-06-25 09:58 -0400

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