How do i find what is causing the spinning colorwheel

How do I find the cause of the spinning color wheel and correct it ?

While you are using Activity Monitor look at System Memory as well: Using Activity Monitor to read System Memory and determine how much RAM is being used
If there is little or no "green" then your system will be burdened by having to constantly offload memory to disk. This would also explain frequent appearance of the "wait cursor".

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I wanted to move my itunes media on my imac to a NAS drive. I used the advance preferences to change the folder to the folder on the NAS. I then went to the "organize library" setting to consolidate.
When I compare the two folders, the music folders are different (807 items in the old to 798 items in the new), mobile applications are different (143 in the old to 153 in the new), Movies are different (321 items in the old, 324 in the new).
I think I already had the entire folder organized the way itunes wanted it. I'm not sure why the count would increase or to easily make sure I'm not missing any info.
Any suggestions?
Thanks.

Actually, a little off on the situation as I originally described.
Compared the old items counts to the new item counts:
1. The music folder increased in item counts.
2. Books is identical.
3. Mobile apps decreased by 10 on the new.
4. Movies decreased by 3.

What is causing the spinning wheel?

Currently running, 10.9.3. Have an external Seagate HD connected via Firewire. Constantly getting spinning wheel on my Mac to access folders. Any suggestions on what to check for? Thanks!

Thanks Old Toad! Here are the results, let me know if you can help in any way, much appreciated!
EtreCheck version: 1.9.12 (48)
Report generated June 29, 2014 at 3:21:23 PM CDT
Hardware Information:
    iMac (24-inch, Early 2009) (Verified)
    iMac - model: iMac9,1
    1 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU: 2 cores
    4 GB RAM
Video Information:
    NVIDIA GeForce GT 130 - VRAM: 512 MB
        iMac 1920 x 1200
System Software:
    OS X 10.9.3 (13D65) - Uptime: 0 days 0:28:52
Disk Information:
    WDC WD1001FALS-40K1B0 disk0 : (1 TB)
        EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
        Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / [Startup]: 999.35 GB (910.03 GB free)
        Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
    OPTIARC DVD RW AD-5670S
USB Information:
    Apple, Inc. Keyboard Hub
        Apple, Inc Apple Keyboard
    Apple Inc. Built-in iSight
    Logitech USB Receiver
    Apple Inc. BRCM2046 Hub
        Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
    Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
FireWire Information:
    Seagate FreeAgent FW 800mbit - 800mbit max
        EFI (disk1s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
        FGI Server (disk1s2) /Volumes/FGI Server: 499.76 GB (438.38 GB free)
Gatekeeper:
    Anywhere
Kernel Extensions:
    [not loaded]    com.palm.ClassicNotSeizeDriver (3.2.1) Support
Startup Items:
    AgentMon: Path: /Library/StartupItems/AgentMon
    HP IO: Path: /Library/StartupItems/HP IO
    RetroClient: Path: /Library/StartupItems/RetroClient
Launch Daemons:
    [loaded]    com.adobe.fpsaud.plist Support
    [loaded]    com.adobe.SwitchBoard.plist Support
    [running]    com.kaseya.agentmon.plist Support
    [running]    com.mozy.backup.plist Support
    [loaded]    com.mozy.restoremanager.plist Support
    [loaded]    com.oracle.java.Helper-Tool.plist Support
    [not loaded]    com.teamviewer.teamviewer_service.plist Support
Launch Agents:
    [not loaded]    com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist Support
    [loaded]    com.adobe.CS4ServiceManager.plist Support
    [not loaded]    com.kaseya.uninstall.plist Support
    [running]    com.mozy.status.plist Support
    [loaded]    com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist Support
    [not loaded]    com.teamviewer.teamviewer.plist Support
    [not loaded]    com.teamviewer.teamviewer_desktop.plist Support
User Launch Agents:
    [loaded]    com.adobe.ARM.[...].plist Support
    [loaded]    com.adobe.ARM.[...].plist Support
    [failed]    com.apple.CSConfigDotMacCert-[...]@me.com-SharedServices.Agent.plist
User Login Items:
    Microsoft Database Daemon
    FGI Server
    AdobeResourceSynchronizer
    My Day
    HP IO Classic Proxy 2
    HP IO Classic Proxy
Internet Plug-ins:
    Default Browser: Version: 537 - SDK 10.9
    Flip4Mac WMV Plugin: Version: 2.2.0.49 Support
    OfficeLiveBrowserPlugin: Version: 12.3.5 Support
    RealPlayer Plugin: Version: (null) Support
    AdobePDFViewerNPAPI: Version: 11.0.07 - SDK 10.6 Support
    FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 13.0.0.214 - SDK 10.6 Support
    Silverlight: Version: 1.0.30401 Support
    Flash Player: Version: 13.0.0.214 - SDK 10.6 Outdated! Update
    QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3
    iPhotoPhotocast: Version: 7.0
    AdobePDFViewer: Version: 11.0.07 - SDK 10.6 Support
    JavaAppletPlugin: Version: Java 7 Update 21 Check version
Audio Plug-ins:
    BluetoothAudioPlugIn: Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.9
    AirPlay: Version: 2.0 - SDK 10.9
    AppleAVBAudio: Version: 203.2 - SDK 10.9
    iSightAudio: Version: 7.7.3 - SDK 10.9
iTunes Plug-ins:
    Quartz Composer Visualizer: Version: 1.4 - SDK 10.9
User Internet Plug-ins:
    Move-Media-Player: Version: npmnqmp 071505000006 Support
    fbplugin_1_0_3: Version: (null) Support
3rd Party Preference Panes:
    Flash Player Support
    Flip4Mac WMV Support
    Java Support
    MozyHome Support
Time Machine:
    Time Machine not configured!
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        58%    MozyHomeBackup
         2%    WindowServer
         1%    firefox
         0%    fontd
         0%    aosnotifyd
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    385 MB    firefox
    152 MB    com.apple.IconServicesAgent
    135 MB    softwareupdated
    106 MB    mds_stores
    82 MB    MozyHomeBackup
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    1.66 GB    Free RAM
    1.40 GB    Active RAM
    434 MB    Inactive RAM
    529 MB    Wired RAM
    595 MB    Page-ins
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how do u find itune files on the computer mine wont load right

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