Address Book - spinning beach ball.

We have an older Mac in the shop which is still running 10.3 and every time you start up the Address Book application all you get is a spinning beach ball if you click on any of the cards. The only thing you can do is force quit.
So far I've tried the following things:
1. Repairing permissions.
2. Deleting the AB prefs.
3. Moving the Address Book folder in the User Preference Panes to the desktop (so the Address Book would start without any cards).
4. Moving the Address Book app to the desktop.
So far nothing has worked. Even starting the app without the contacts, as soon as you click on anything you get a spinning beach ball and are forced to quit.
Suggestions...?
Tx.
MJX.

Hi MJX!
Is Address Book the only application that is troublesome?
Exactly which model Mac G4 is it?
Which version number of Panther 10.3.x is it upgraded to?
What is the Processor speed?
What size is the Hard Drive, and how much space is available?
How much RAM is installed, and is it original or added?
What happened between the last time the AB functioned successfully, and when it didn't?
Have you made any changes, like upgrading the system, updated or installed any applications or programs, etc?
Have you disabled, deleted, or added any Fonts?
Are you able to startup from the system install disc to run Repair Disk?
Is the Mac shutdown overnight, or does it run 24/7?
Have you ever run any routine Maintenance procedures?
THESE ARE THE STEPS FOR USING DISK UTILITY TO REPAIR YOUR HD
1.Insert the System Install disk, Mac OS X CD-ROM disk, or Restore DVD disk, then restart the computer while holding the C key. Use the System disk, of the OS, that is currently installed.
2.Once started up from CD or DVD, on the Menubar at the top of the screen, choose Disk Utility from the Installer contextual menu.
Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from disc to access Disk Utility.
3.Click the First Aid tab.
4.Click the disclosure triangle to the left of the hard drive icon to display the names of your hard disk volumes and partitions.
5.Select your Mac OS X volume, if necessary.
6.Click Repair. If DU reports errors it has fixed, re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported.
7.Repeat steps 5 & 6, but select the Hard Drive this time. It's usually the first listed with the manufacturer's model number. Make note of the S.M.A.R.T. status.
8.When finished, select Quit Disk Utility from the Installer menu.
9.Select Quit Installer from the Installer menu.
10.In the resulting pop-up window, choose restart.
11.After the computer has restarted, you can eject the CD.
ali b

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This machine was upgraded from Snow Leopard to Lion to Mountain Lion and is a late-2009 IMac 11,1 27-inch Core-i5.
Other things in the log that look unrelated, but may still be problematic and appear frequently in the log include:
Oct 20 02:32:28 bkmac iTunes[52709]: _NotificationSocketReadCallbackGCD (thread 0x7fff7c17e180): Unexpected connection closure...
Oct 20 02:32:28 bkmac ath[52725]: _NotificationSocketReadCallbackGCD (thread 0x7fff7c17e180): Unexpected connection closure...
Oct 20 02:32:46 bkmac iTunes[52709]: _NotificationSocketReadCallbackGCD (thread 0x7fff7c17e180): Unexpected connection closure...
Oct 20 02:32:46 bkmac ath[52725]: _NotificationSocketReadCallbackGCD (thread 0x7fff7c17e180): Unexpected connection closure...
Oct 20 02:34:53 bkmac iTunes[52709]: _NotificationSocketReadCallbackGCD (thread 0x7fff7c17e180): Unexpected connection closure...
Oct 20 02:34:53 bkmac ath[52725]: _NotificationSocketReadCallbackGCD (thread 0x7fff7c17e180): Unexpected connection closure...
and...
Oct 20 08:33:21 bkmac mdworker[60567]: Unable to talk to lsboxd
Oct 20 08:33:21 bkmac mdworker[60566]: Unable to talk to lsboxd
Oct 20 08:33:21 bkmac sandboxd[60568] ([60567]): mdworker(60567) deny mach-lookup com.apple.ls.boxd
Oct 20 08:33:21 bkmac sandboxd[60568] ([60566]): mdworker(60566) deny mach-lookup com.apple.ls.boxd
Oct 20 08:33:21 bkmac kernel[0]: Sandbox: sandboxd(60568) deny mach-lookup com.apple.coresymbolicationd
and....
Oct 20 08:59:59 bkmac UserEventAgent[158]: Could not look up channel/token: com.apple.time/0x3577: 0x3: No such process
Oct 20 08:59:59 bkmac UserEventAgent[158]: Could not get event name for stream/token: com.apple.time/3577: 0x3: No such process
Oct 20 08:59:59 bkmac UserEventAgent[158]: Bug: 12C54: libxpc.dylib + 36100 [FAC04D8B-680E-325F-8F0C-DD69859D0E01]: 0x3
Oct 20 08:59:59 bkmac UserEventAgent[158]: Could not get event name for stream/token: com.apple.time/3577: 0x3: No such process
Oct 20 08:59:59 bkmac UserEventAgent[158]: Could not get event name for stream/token: com.apple.time/3578: 0x3: No such process
Oct 20 08:59:59 bkmac UserEventAgent[158]: Could not get event name for stream/token: com.apple.time/3581: 0x3: No such process
Oct 20 08:59:59 bkmac UserEventAgent[158]: Could not get event name for stream/token: com.apple.time/3583: 0x3: No such process
Any thoughts on resolving the issue?

Regarding the "Contacts" and "Calendar" items -- apparently those files were from saved attachments in the Downloads folder rather than coming from my Contacts address book or my Calendar. I have deleted those -- I believe that was simply a red herring.
The error in the system.log persists every time I click on "All My Files"
Oct 20 11:02:21 bkmac WindowServer[101]: CGXDisableUpdate: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "Finder" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.
Oct 20 11:02:21 bkmac WindowServer[101]: reenable_update_for_connection: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "Finder" after 1.35 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.00 seconds)
I believe the problem must revolve around this.

Mavericks Screen Capture causes spinning beach ball

Trained by experience never to install a brand new operating system on top of a perfectly functioning one (unless I want to risk many wasting times and losing productivity), to test out the new Mac OS, I installed Mavericks on an external FireWire drive by upgrading a fresh install of Snow Leopard, updated to its maximum version. Nothing else was on the volume, for I had used Disk Utility to securely erase and content and overwrite the volume with zeros.
Immediately after the Mavericks, I looked at the System Profile, taking some screen captures of selected windows. While Mavericks successfully captured the screens, it failed to display them when I selected one and hit the space bar. Instead, mavericks presented a perpetually spinning beach ball that prevented me from doing anything else on the Mac. I was forced to shut down.
Upon restart back into Mavericks, I encountered the same problem. I had to force power off again.
After rebooting into Mountain Lion on my internal hard drive, I ran a complete series of hard drive maintenance utilities involving all the tools I have, including Disk Utility, Drive Genius, Disk Warrior, and Tech Tool Pro. All ran successfully and reported no problems. I then capped things by running iDefrag to eliminate file fragmentation and to optimize the volume. With several hours of labor invested in preparing the external hard disk, downloading Mavericks' installer, running the Mavericks installer, performing all the pertinent maintenance routines I could think of, and finally optimizing the volume, which has no other software on it besides the new Apple operating system, I restarted the Mavericks volume. I then took a fresh screen capture, selected it, pressed the space bar, and I still got that infernal spinning beach ball.
I let it run for at least half an hour as I returned to watching a football game, hoping things would finally get cleared up. They did not. The ball still spun. I could not even get to the Finder to peek into the Force Quit command under the Apple icon. So, as originally condemned, I was compelled to hold down the power button to regain control of my computer, which this new, appropriately named operating system had wrested from me.
Anyone having a similar problem? Anyone aware of a sure-fire solution, other than to avoid relying on this new operating system, which must be my policy until such glitches get fixed?
At least you know now why I consider it unwise to install a brand new OS atop of one that has served you well.

OK, it’s Wednesday now, late afternoon, following a long yesterday, spent exclusively on getting Mavericks installed, a day which continued well into night, approaching the sun rise, until I collapsed. No one can tell me that the Mavericks installation is without errors! Your mileage may differ, if you’re lucky. But if you had to go through what I just did, you’ll long for the days of System 7, when all you had to do was shove a half-dozen floppy disks into a floppy drive to get your Mac up and running without such angst.
SHORT ANSWER:
After many twists and turns that Apple should have foreseen and not inflicted upon customers, I finally managed to get Mavericks installed on my external Firewire hard drive.
I did follow your lead, Baltwo, that the nature of the problem might lay in corrupt preferences files on the primary Account, but, as I attempted a couple of days, I modified your suggestion that I cherry-pick which plist files might be good vs. which might be corrupt, by deleting the whole **** account. A couple of days ago, my intuition told me that doing that was the wiser way to proceed; today I felt compelled to do exactly that, because I had no other choice.
The reasons I had to do that is elaborated upon below.
LONGER EXPLANATION and DETAILS:
As I explained in the message I composed on Tuesday morning, I felt so insecure that I did not obtain a well-functioning operating system that I had decided to start the installation all over from scratch.
It took all day Monday to again use Disk Utility to securely erase the volume and prepare it for the new installation. When I tried to short-cut the process by doing a Quick Erase, the volume refused to accept the installation of Snow Leopard 10.6.3 from the DVD. On top of that, I again encountered difficulties in installing Snow Leopard from the DVD, because the installer just could not close the deal. The gauge runs up to the 99% mark, and it hangs there saying that it is “Moving items into place.” Sure, it is!
I’m a patient guy, so I let the installer do its thing for about four hours while I watched the World Series game. (Yeah, Red Sox!) But by the time the game was over, so was my patience. I had to Force Power Off the Mac and restart it.
Since I have no confidence in an operating system whose installer failed to do its job properly, I felt that I had to do more. Before I did that, though, I did a Google search to find out if my experience was unique. It is not! The forums are full of people who have complained about this very same hanging problem ever since the Snow Leopard DVD was released. Great, I thought. Now what do I do?
I decided to the Apple support site and download the 1.x GB combo updater to Snow Leopard 10.6.8 in the hopes that the upgrade process would cure whatever issues cropped up during the incomplete installation by the DVD. After downloading that combo disk image, installing 10.6.8, restarting the Mac under 10.6.8, and getting all the software updates applicable to that version, a few tests, supplemented by a running a whole barrage of maintenance utilizes to fix permissions, repair the disk, rebuilt the directory, seemed to indicate that I did finally achieve a solid installation of Snow Leopard 10.6.8 and all its trimming.
To save myself any future agony of having to go through this kind of winding road installation again, I used SuperDuper to create a disk image of the entire volume. That disk image is stored on another Firewire volume, ready to burned at some future date onto a BluRay disc for safe-keeping and backup.
With Snow Leopard safely installed on the volume and sporting one user Account, I was ready to use the Mavericks installer package that I had downloaded last Saturday, when I first began this process, to upgrade to Apple’s latest and greatest OS. Unfortunately, the installation process failed in the same way that the Snow Leopard installer failed. The installer just could not get over the hump of closing the deal. Once I got the installer started, I went to bed.
Four hours later, the installer still had not completed its job, again getting to the 99% mark, and just hanging there. Again, I had to Power Off the Mac. Upon restarting with the Option held down, I elected to start up using the built-in Recovery feature.
That seemed to work, but only sort of. I was able to get a Mavericks desktop, but the User account had absolutely no privileges to do a **** thing. It could not open its own Home folder to see what was in it. It could not complete the screen capture process, because I had no permission to save the picture anywhere, like on the Desktop.
In System Preferences, I tried to increase the size of the cursor, but that failed. In Finder preferences, I tried to make the hard drives show up on the desktop, but that failed, too. I ran permissions in Disk Utility; that did no good. Nothing worked! I could not even change anything related to my User account, because I had no permission to do so. Imagine that: my only account was an Administer account to which I had no access. I would not have thought such a thing could be possible.
I was caught in a loop, stranded on a Mobius Strip, walking on the wild side, surfing the waves of a brand new operating system corrupted by its own installation process.
Not a good thing at all.
Since the first installment had also resulted in a bizarre set of user accounts ending up with QuickLooks being declared the winner of a new account the system decided to create for me, I think it is reasonably safe to conclude that there is some kind of a bug, or flaw, in the Apple upgrade / installation procedure that needs some attention by Apple system engineers. None of this kind of stuff I have delineated at some length should be happening to anyone who owns a Mac.
And, Baltwo, even though I had kept uppermost in my mind your suggestion about creating a new account merely to ferret out which preference files might be corrupt and which might be OK, I decided that I did not want to take any chances at all with this extremely messed User account, which had worked fine in Snow Leopard, but had somehow got corrupted during the upgrade. So, as before, I decided to (1) create a brand new Administrator account; (2) log out from the useless User account in which I had no privileges whatsoever; (3) log in with the brand new Adminstrator; and (4) delete that useless User account entirely, completely, and forever.
At first, I was a little hesitant about deleting the first Administrator account that existed in my Users and Groups pane. I did not even know if such a thing could be done. So, I referred to my David Pogue reference books, and I did a Google search for “Delete Home User Mac” to see what others knew about this. Everyone described the standard way to delete an account; no one even mentioned any prohibition about deleting the original User account. So, I went ahead and deleted it, without encountering the slightest problem in doing so. I even followed up with before and after Terminal commands to see if that useless User account was truly gone, and it definitely went poof. Since I lacked permissions to create any documents at all within that former Home folder, getting rid of it was easy. I think that the System was just as glad to trash it as I was.
Hopefully, whatever corruption occurred during the Mavericks installation and upgrade process was restricted to the preference files associated with that messed-up, original Administrator account so that I can begin exploring Mavericks with a perfectly pristine operating system. Before I start tweaking it or adding stuff to it, my next step will be to use SuperDuper to create a disk image of the entire volume, so that, in the future, I will have a clean set of system of file to install on this external Firewire volume, or on any other internal hard drive I choose to install Mavericks later on. A Bluray disc will contain that disc image for safekeeping when it’s time to remove it from the destination volume where it gets created.
As to the tardiness of my reply, it is caused by the exorbitant amount of time—four days!—it took me to trek along this twisting, winding path of installing Mavericks, as well as a glitch in the mismatch of similarly looking User Names associated with similarly looking Apple ID accounts and similarly looking User Names associated with nearly identical Email Addresses that do not convert from one to the other, as, for example, mac.com does to me.com.
As I learned from Apple Staff who responded to my report that I was being locked out of the Apple Discussions community, there are four pieces of information that must match up for each Apple ID account, and my data had slipped out of sync. Now I know why, during Apple’s changeover in the formatting of the Apple Discussions section, I lost all those “points” I had accumulated in helping others, not that I track such things, and I could not find where my previous discussions were.
That’s also why I may be able to award anyone points for helping me in this thread, but I’m dialing in under the “other” Apple ID, not the one I used to create this topic. Close readers will observe the slight difference.
Thanks a lot, Baltwo. You get the credit for pointing me in the right direction.

Mail Plagued by Spinning Beach Ball of Death After 10.6 Upgrade...

Hello,
After the upgrade to Mac 10.6, Mail is plagued by the spinning beach ball of death. I did get the confirmation that the Mail database had been successfully rebuilt and the window looks fine for a few seconds before the program stalls. I have tried removing the Preferences and Envelope Index files before a restart without any change. Activity Monitor shows Mail eating up just shy of 100% CPU and the infamous "Not Responding" phrase.
Any clues from here?
More microchips than sense,
Dr. Z.

See the following threads corresponding to Snow Leopard:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10064960&#10064960
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10063772&#10063772
This was also an intermittent issue in Leopard:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9756242&#9756242
Deleting all Smart Groups in Address Book resolves the issue.
Feedback time:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html
Interestingly enough, the Feedback page drop-down menu has not been updated with SL. =/
John

Safari 3.1.2 bookmarks and the Spinning Beach Ball of Doom

Safari has been one pile for me. I cannot change the toolbar components - the "Customize Toolbar Link doesn't work, Bookmarks? >
that's what I see when I go to Save a Bookmark.
When I go to the Bookmark Menu Item: is what I see.
To access my Bookmarks, this:
is the only way.
as for anything Java related... KA-RASH - THE SPINNING BEACH BALL OF DOOM, and, sometimes, it just spins for the heck of it. I am not happy. Really not happy. and, ya know? You can't just drag it to the trash and reinstall. Or, can you?
Message was edited by: Kelly Lincoln

You can't just drag it to the trash and reinstall. Or, can you?
Custom installs in Mac OS X 10.4...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301229
"Here's a list of all the custom installation options available with Optional Installs.mpkg:
* Applications
o Address Book 4.0
o iCal 2.0
o iChat 3.0
o iTunes 4.7.1
o Mail 2.0
o Oxford Dictionaries
o Safari 2.0
o X11"
Have you done any Disk maintenance lately?
Might try dragging this file to the desktop & reboot...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safari.plist
Or even Safe Boot , (holding Shift key down at bootup), off the HD & use Disk Utility from there to Repair Permissions, reboot once more.

Too Much Fan / Too much spinning Beach ball

Hi: My 10.4 iMac Desktop (with max 2 Gg SDRAM, and 50 Gig HD space still available) seems to be overworking, or something.
I get a lot of Spinning Beach ball , and quite a bit of fan work. My most common applications: Addres Book, Mail, Safari, Appleworks 6 (which seems to really stink now).
One perpetual problem (which I posted elsewhere): I can't BACK UP my ADDRESS BOOK. When I do, it leaves me with spinning ball of death for hours until Force Quit. Yuk.
I "Repair Disc permissions" monthly, and just checked/ Verified the HD from the original 10.4 Discs. All is aok.--no repairs needed.
Computer is 3 years old. Want to stay on 10.4 (I need to use Classic 9). But, are there some general or specific things I can do to keep my computer happy?
Thanks.

Hello,
You might want to check the drive for errors... you will need your system restore disk.
Testing and repairing a disk or volume
When you have problems with a disk or volume, use Disk Utility to test and repair it. Disk Utility also reports the S.M.A.R.T. status, which tells you whether your disk has hardware problems that will cause it to fail.
To repair a disk, you need an administrator's password. If you don't have one, ask an administrator to repair the disk with Disk Utility for you.
You can verify your startup disk with Disk Utility, but to repair it, you must start up your computer using another disk. For example, you can use your Mac OS X Install disk.
In addition, you cannot test or repair write-protected disks, nonrecordable CDs or DVDs, or disks with open files.
Close the files and quit the applications on the disk that you want to repair.
Open Disk Utility, and select the disk in the list on the left.
Click First Aid.
Check the S.M.A.R.T. Status at the bottom of the window. If you can't see the S.M.A.R.T. Status, be sure you selected the hard disk your volume is on, and not the volume itself.
If the S.M.A.R.T. Status is "About to Fail," back up your files on the disk as soon as possible and replace the disk.
If the S.M.A.R.T. Status is "Verified" or "Not supported," click Repair Disk to repair the disk.
If Disk Utility cannot unmount the disk, be sure you have quit any open applications and click Repair Disk again. If it still cannot unmount the disk, repair it just like you would repair a startup disk, by starting your computer from another disk, such as your Mac OS X Install disk.
If Disk Utility tells you to look for links to corrupt files in the DamagedFiles directory, some of those files are overlapping on your hard disk and are likely to be corrupt. Examine the affected files, each of which is listed in Disk Utility's output on a line that begins "Overlapped extent allocation". Most of these files have aliases in the DamagedFiles folder at the top level of the affected disk. If you can replace the file or recreate it, delete it. If it contains necessary information, open it and examine its data to make sure it has not been corrupted.
If Disk Utility cannot repair your disk or reports "The underlying task reported failure," try to repair the disk again. If that doesn't work, back up as much of your data as possible, reformat your disk, reinstall Mac OS X, and restore your backed up data. If you continue to have problems with your disk, it may be physically damaged and need to be replaced. See an authorized Apple dealer for more information.
Carolyn

Spinning beach ball suddenly? MacBook Pro slowed to a *crawl*

Was updated to 10.6.2 - All of a sudden last night, I started getting the spinning beach ball for like minutes at a time. No better today after multiple reboots - when the system starts up the ball spins and it takes over 10 minutes for my desktop to fully load up and look normal. Then...if I try and open Finder, Mail, Safari, 8-10 minutes of spinning ball, ultimately it WILL respond, but on the next mouse click back to 8-10 minutes of spinning ball and no work getting done When Safari opens after the 10 minutes or so, it works somewhat OK.
Nothing in the system monitor is an obvious probelm - and the CPU usage graphics completely stop working when the ball is spinning a long time.
Here's what I've tried:
verify disk - both from install disk and desktop
verify/repair permissions - same as above - one warning keeps popping up "SUID File.....ARDAGENT has been modified and will not be repaired"??
(verify/repair log at bottom of message)
Reinstalled 10.6 from DVD
Reset PRAM/NVRAM
Reset SMC
Used Font Book to resolve duplicates (only a few)
Still no go - everything runs SO SLOW, ten minutes to reboot and ten minutes if I click on finder at a time of the spinning ball? I have not tried software update yet - frankly haven't had time to wait out the spinning ball!! Time machine seems to still be backing up, mail comes in (mail takes ten minutes to open as well), etc.
Some things done in the last few days - uninstalled some old printers a few days ago - and installed a Lexmark pro905 with 10.6 drivers - all of that has been working fine for a few days. Yesterday one thing I did was relocate a VmFusion "Virtual Machines" folder from "Documents" up to my \Users\tomscal\Virtual Machines. Again, that didn't seem at the time to cause any troubles, I worked late into the afternoon after making that change.
Any suggestions??
Tom
2009-12-19 12:47:05 -0800: Disk Utility started.
2009-12-19 12:47:16 -0800: Verifying volume “Macintosh HD”
2009-12-19 12:47:16 -0800: Starting verification tool:
2009-12-19 12:47:28 -0800: Performing live verification.
2009-12-19 12:48:37 -0800: Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
2009-12-19 12:48:37 -0800: Checking extents overflow file.
2009-12-19 12:48:37 -0800: Checking catalog file.
2009-12-19 12:48:37 -0800: Checking multi-linked files.
2009-12-19 12:48:37 -0800: Checking catalog hierarchy.
2009-12-19 12:48:37 -0800: Checking extended attributes file.
2009-12-19 12:48:37 -0800: Checking volume bitmap.
2009-12-19 12:48:37 -0800: Checking volume information.
2009-12-19 12:48:37 -0800: The volume Macintosh HD appears to be OK.
2009-12-19 12:48:38 -0800: Repair tool completed:
2009-12-19 12:48:38 -0800:
2009-12-19 12:48:38 -0800:
2009-12-19 12:51:04 -0800: Verify permissions for “Macintosh HD”
2009-12-19 12:54:14 -0800: ACL found but not expected on "private/etc/apache2/users".
2009-12-19 12:54:14 -0800: ACL found but not expected on "private/etc/postfix/main.cf".
2009-12-19 12:54:14 -0800: ACL found but not expected on "private/etc/postfix/main.cf.default".
2009-12-19 12:54:43 -0800: Warning: SUID file "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAg ent" has been modified and will not be repaired.
2009-12-19 12:55:01 -0800: ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/Keychains/X509Anchors".
2009-12-19 12:55:39 -0800: ACL found but not expected on "private/etc/hostconfig".
2009-12-19 12:55:42 -0800:
2009-12-19 12:55:42 -0800: Permissions verification complete
2009-12-19 12:55:42 -0800:
2009-12-19 12:55:43 -0800:
2009-12-19 12:59:07 -0800: Repairing permissions for “Macintosh HD”
2009-12-19 13:01:47 -0800: ACL found but not expected on "private/etc/apache2/users".
2009-12-19 13:01:47 -0800: Repaired "private/etc/apache2/users".
2009-12-19 13:01:47 -0800: ACL found but not expected on "private/etc/postfix/main.cf".
2009-12-19 13:01:47 -0800: Repaired "private/etc/postfix/main.cf".
2009-12-19 13:01:47 -0800: ACL found but not expected on "private/etc/postfix/main.cf.default".
2009-12-19 13:01:47 -0800: Repaired "private/etc/postfix/main.cf.default".
2009-12-19 13:02:16 -0800: Warning: SUID file "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAg ent" has been modified and will not be repaired.
2009-12-19 13:02:33 -0800: ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/Keychains/X509Anchors".
2009-12-19 13:02:33 -0800: Repaired "System/Library/Keychains/X509Anchors".
2009-12-19 13:03:12 -0800: ACL found but not expected on "private/etc/hostconfig".
2009-12-19 13:03:12 -0800: Repaired "private/etc/hostconfig".
2009-12-19 13:03:16 -0800:
2009-12-19 13:03:16 -0800: Permissions repair complete
2009-12-19 13:03:16 -0800:
2009-12-19 13:03:17 -0800:

Well, I tried most of the tips suggested above, and tip/tricks found elsewhere. Nothing worked, I continued to have 10-15 minute hangs with the beach ball spinning. If I clicked on a folder in like Finder, ten minutes would go by then the folder would open. Rebooting took 10-15 minutes.
Finally out of frustration I erased the hard disk using the Disk Utility on the Snow Leopard 10.6 disc, and used migration assistant to restore.
Much to my surprise it worked - the clean install/restore is working OK at the moment.
Hard/long way to fix the problem though.....

Address Book - spinning beach ball.

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