Constantly getting color wheel of death

We have 3 MBPs (one is my corporate issue). 2 work fine. My wife has a 15". Specs are here:
Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro3,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.2 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 4 MB
Memory: 4 GB
Bus Speed: 800 MHz
Boot ROM Version: MBP31.0070.B07
SMC Version (system): 1.16f11
Serial Number (system): W88024S7X91
Hardware UUID: 00000000-0000-1000-8000-001EC2072829
Sudden Motion Sensor:
State: Enabled
Originally it was 2GB RAM. I have upgrade to 4GB and upgraded disk to 500GB. No matter what she does, even as simple as opening a small file on the desktop seems to create a color wheel event. Often it locks everything. Very frustrating. I have considered a clean install to see if that will help. Any ideas? I was trying to check swal usage, but there is apparently no "swap" command. According to the Activity monitor, there is no CPU hog, there is always at least 1GB of free RAM. Disk activity is not high. I have about 30 years experience with various XENIX/UNIX OSes and cannot figure this out.

Often a primary suspect is a bad hard drive. Can you check the SMART status of the drive with Disk Utility? Otherwise, I'd try running the computer from an external boot drive.

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Spinning color wheel of death

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Yesterday, whilst trying to solve a problem with mail - which attachments sporadically and automagically become embedded BASE64 files I rebuilt my IMAP inbox - All worked well for about two minutes. Then the real problems began. Mail would present me the Spinning Colored Wheel of Death. Then consume my CPU to 95% and Not Respond. Interestingly enough - I was still able to receive mail. Just not able to respond.
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I even tried to repair my drive but could not - because the repair option was grayed out. Was able to verify, fix permissions and all of the other activities instead of sleep.
I moved copies of Mail folders to the desktop - restarted. Nope. I moved my Preferences -> com.apple.mail.plist file - re-entered all of the information anew.Nope. Removed partial.emix files. Nope.
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I would think that for a product that has numerous parameters and characteristics, there would be a better troubleshooting methodology.
Finally I fixed the problem ...
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Mac Book Pro constantly displays spinning wheel of death HELP!!!

My Mac Book Pro (after installing Mavericks) displays the spinning wheel of death multiple times per day. I thought it was my Google Chrome, but now it has been happening no matter what application I am using. I used Etrecheck to see what is going on with my computer, but I don't actually know what the output means. I've copied the information below.
More information: I no longer have a Blackberry, but I don't know how to remove any software that may still be on my computer (since I see Blackberry listed under Kernel Extensions). I also backed up my harddrive on the 28th, just to be safe.
I would greatly appreciate any and all help with this. I'm in the process of trying to study for mulitple teacher certification exams, so this is the worst possible time for tmy computer to suddenly go haywire. Thank you so much to anyone who takes the time to help!
Hardware Information:
          MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2010)
          MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro7,1
          1 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU: 2 cores
          4 GB RAM
Video Information:
          NVIDIA GeForce 320M - VRAM: 256 MB
System Software:
          OS X 10.9.2 (13C1021) - Uptime: 0 days 0:21:46
Disk Information:
          Hitachi HTS545032B9SA02 disk0 : (320.07 GB)
                    EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
                    Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / [Startup]: 319.21 GB (224.83 GB free)
                    Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
          MATSHITADVD-R   UJ-898
USB Information:
          Apple Inc. Built-in iSight
          Apple Internal Memory Card Reader
          Apple Inc. BRCM2046 Hub
                    Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
          Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
          Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
Thunderbolt Information:
Gatekeeper:
          Mac App Store and identified developers
Kernel Extensions:
          [kext loaded] com.rim.driver.BlackBerryUSBDriverInt (0.0.64) Support
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          [not loaded] com.seagate.driver.PowSecDriverCore (5.2.3 - SDK 10.4) Support
          [not loaded] com.seagate.driver.PowSecLeafDriver_10_4 (5.2.3 - SDK 10.4) Support
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          [not loaded] com.seagate.driver.SeagateDriveIcons (5.2.3 - SDK 10.4) Support
Startup Items:
          HP IO: Path: /Library/StartupItems/HP IO
Launch Daemons:
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          [loaded] com.cloudpath.maccmd.plist Support
          [loaded] com.google.keystone.daemon.plist Support
          [loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist Support
          [running] com.rim.BBDaemon.plist Support
          [running] com.sophos.autoupdate.plist Support
          [running] com.sophos.intercheck.plist Support
          [running] com.sophos.notification.plist Support
          [failed] Safe.Connect.plist Support
Launch Agents:
          [loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist Support
          [running] com.hp.devicemonitor.plist Support
          [loaded] com.hp.messagecenter.launcher.plist Support
          [running] com.hp.productresearch.plist Support
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          [running] net.culater.SIMBL.Agent.plist Support
User Launch Agents:
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          [loaded] com.citrixonline.GoToMeeting.G2MUpdate.plist Support
          [loaded] com.leadertech.PowerRegister.SEA1.83d33ce173c08a4063a3d2747cfbb0a9.plist Support
          [running] com.spotify.webhelper.plist Support
User Login Items:
          AdobeResourceSynchronizer
          Dropbox
          HP Scheduler
          SophosUIServer
Internet Plug-ins:
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          Default Browser: Version: 537 - SDK 10.9
          Flip4Mac WMV Plugin: Version: 2.3.8.1 Support
          NP2020Player: Version: 5.0.4.0 Support
          OfficeLiveBrowserPlugin: Version: 12.3.6 Support
          AdobePDFViewerNPAPI: Version: 10.1.9 Support
          FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 13.0.0.206 - SDK 10.6 Support
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Audio Plug-ins:
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iTunes Plug-ins:
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User Internet Plug-ins:
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3rd Party Preference Panes:
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Time Machine:
          Skip System Files: NO
          Auto backup: YES
          Volumes being backed up:
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          Destinations:
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               1%          InterCheck
               0%          BBLaunchAgent
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          106 MB          com.apple.IconServicesAgent
          74 MB          Dropbox
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Virtual Memory Information:
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          492 MB          Wired RAM
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kmiddlet88,
yes, it could be due to nearly anything listed in your kernel extensions, startup items, launch daemons, launch agents, or user items above. Please check all of your installed third-party software to make sure that the versions which are installed on your MacBook Pro are compatible with Mavericks; uninstall every software package which isn’t Mavericks-compatible. After you’ve done that, boot into Safe mode, and see if you still get the beach ball of doom there. If it doesn’t appear there, restart normally and see if it appears then.

Leopard 10.5.1 Lightroom 1.3 iMac 24" Canon 10D color wheel of death

Trying to download for the first time my pictures from my Canon 10D using Adobe LightRoom 1.3 under Leopard 10.5.1 everytime after +/- 30 pictures the program and the finder hangs option command escape also does not do anything anymore only the color wheel spinning. Only solution a hard reboot.
Using Leopard 10.5.1 Lightroom 1.3 on my macbook pro (15" led display version) all the picutures from the camera get downloaded without any problems.
Under all other conditions the iMac so far has been without problems. Is this aproblem in the video driver?
Thanks,
Raimond

Thanks for you answer. I repaired in the way as described above. There were some errors, some file index was wrong (don't remember exactly the phrase), now the DU reports the partition was successfully repaired / the volume appears to be ok.
The crashes in Safari are gone, but all other described problems still exist. Adobe CS3 is not really usable for me.
By the way, in iMacSoftwareUpdate 1.3, which was replaced by OSX 10.5.1 update, there is one extension called AppleVADriver.kext that does not exist in the OSX 10.5.1 update. Is it an important extension?

How can I stop the color wheel of death from letting me key?

I am using Lion Mac OS X version 10.7 on an iMac. Since installing Lion, I get the color wheel every few minutes. This is diving me crazy! I try to key anything and it just stops me cold. I waait it out and then start over , I key 2 -3 words and the color wheel is back. HELP!

First, check to see that Spotlight is not indexing. Click on your Spotlight icon upper right toolbar and see if there is a progress bar. If that's the case, you need to let it finish indexing before you'll get better performance.
If not, next boot from the Lion recovery partition by booting up holding the "c" key and run Repair Disk.
Also, how much RAM are you running?

Upgraded to latest version, get spinning wheel of death

So I upgraded to the latest version of iTunes and now when I open it I just get the spinning wheel of death. Need to force close the app. Deleted it from the machine and reinstalled fresh copy, no dice. Searched the Internet, but cannot find an older version of iTunes to reinstall.
What do I do to get it working again?

gazo wrote:
Are you guys saying it is better to have a MAC OS Extended formatted drive instead of a MAC OS Extended (Journalled) Drive?
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Also, make sure to go to System Prefs->Energy Saver, and untick the box that says 'put hard drives to sleep when possible.'
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Sleep/wakeup problem - get colored wheel - must hard shutdown

If I put my iMac to sleep (Apple -> Sleep), or just let it go to sleep, I can't seem to get back without having to hard-shutdown and restart. When the computer comes out of sleep, it looks fine until I try to do something, anything. If I click on FireFox to do something, (or any application it seems) I get the colored wheel that just spins and never stops. It seems like I have cursor control in that I can move the cursor, and sometimes the colored wheel changes to the regular cursor when I'm over the background image on the desktop, but if I try to access any menu items the cursor changes back to the colored wheel. I also cannot open any new application from the dock. I'm pretty well stuck and am forced to hard-shutdown by pressing the power button for a few seconds.
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Also, I have tried resetting the SMC as described in http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1543 but there is no change.

Ian,
I appreciate the information. I have, in the meantime, shutdown my iMac. Not just restarted, but completely shut down. So far, I have not experienced the problem again. Prior to shutting down, I keep my Mac going 24 hours, but I do put it in sleep, or let it go to sleep (they do seem different since when it goes to sleep I can still hear things running as opposed to when I put it to sleep it's completely quite). I'm beginning to wonder if somehow that caused the problem. In any case, I'll watch it and see if anything else happens. I forgot to mention but I did run the extended hardware test by starting my Mac while holding down the "d" key. It found no errors but I wanted to mention that I did run the test. And not to be sarcastic, but I've owned PCs until this Mac. I know shutting down a PC every now and then is a good idea, but I didn't think I'd need to do that with the Mac.
I'll keep you posted.
Thanks, again.
- Dean

Downloaded firefox 5.0.1. video streaming fails. get the wheel of death

I downloaded firefox 5.0.1 and now the video stream fails, devolving into the wheel of death
the eternal ring
I use Mac OS10, snow leopard
trying to watch tnt.tv
also trying to listen to dead.net
both failed
tnt.tv also failed on safari, so maybe that's them
deadnet works on safari

http://theappledaily.com/2011/06/20/download-firefox-5-final-for-mac-os-x-windows-and-linux/

Macbook is very slow and keeps getting the wheel of death

EtreCheck version: 2.1.8 (121)
Report generated 12 March 2015 12:12:43 am AEDT
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Hardware Information: ℹ️
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    MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro11,1
    1 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU: 2-core
    8 GB RAM Not upgradeable
        BANK 0/DIMM0
            4 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok
        BANK 1/DIMM0
            4 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok
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Your major problem is that you installed Norton/Symantec. If offers no benefit and only slows your Mac. I suspect yopur computer will run much better if you uninstall it and pledge not to treat your Mac like it is a Windows computer.
WDSmartWare has slowed down my computers before so I no longer use it.
There may be other things at play but it will be hard to tell with Norton/Symantec in the way.

My iTunes on my Mac won't open. The dreaded colored wheel of death keeps spinning but nothing happens. When i hit force quit it shows iTunes as "not responding". Help please.

Help. When i open iTunes the dreaded wheel of doom keeps spinning but itunes wont open or allow me to do anything. When i force quit it shows itunes as "not responding".
Help!

You need a firewire cable (6 pin to 4 pin). These are very cheap online if you Google, or you can find at Radio Shack etc.

When I open and close iPhoto I get the wheel of death and I have to force quit the program. Can I reinstall the program to fix any corrupted files?

Can I reinstall iPhoto '11 to fix any corrupted files?

You can but it will not fix anything - you have a corrupted library = not an corrupted application
Backup your iPHoto library, depress the option and command keys, launch iPhoto and ftom the resulting first aid window rebuild your database
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