Endless spinning beach ball / system crash report

I am now getting the endless spinning beach ball for about 5 minutes every time I go from one application to another. It's often if I've been in Word or Photoshop, & I go back to Firefox to look at emails; it spins & spins before I can do anything. I also had some sort of a crash yesterday while I was out of the room, so I wasn't doing anything. I came back to find the attached long crash report; it means nothing to me. Is there anyone out there who can interpret this? I had to save it in several screenshots as it was very long (& this isn't even all of it). Thanks.

Banks everywhere seem to try to encourage customers to install it, but in my experience (3 bank accounts) they don't insist.
Unfortunately, as I said earlier, it just doesn't seem to work well for many users of OS X (there are numerous threads on here about it). A couple of years ago I installed it when my bank started pushing it but immediately started having kernel panics. Removing it fixed things immediately.
Occasionally someone from Trusteer has appeared on here offering to help, but generally soon disappear when they start getting flack .

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    These cats like beach balls a lot.
    I really hate to complain about any Apple product because this company really care about details and user experience. But this Lion thing is enough for me. Since I installed Lion on my computer, my work became a frustration. The computer decreased its speed 70% at least. Switching between applications became a torture while watching desperately the beach ball spinning endlessly until the solicited window draws completely. Numbers and Pages spend the time saving and saving taking from four to ten seconds each time while annoying me and stopping me from finishing my work and taking me out of concentration every five minutes or so. It's a hateful nuisance. The icons in Launchpad linger to draw, all I see for several seconds are their dotted frames until they want to appear. The whole machine freezes completely while the spinning beach ball spins happily and eternally until I force quitting application by application or reboot the computer at once, turning it off and on again for the third time this day, and the fifteenth time this week. Fixing privileges and cmd+alt+P+R don't work.
    I beared all this torture for months hoping Mountan would fix this mess. Oh, poor of me, such a naive user; the hours and hours downloading the upgrade with a child-like heart who expect to be given a wished gift were useless and disappointing. The result is the same or worse if I dare to use iCloud.
    So well. Fortunately for me, I had bought Tiger on disc a long ago... I'll draw back this weekend until Apple DO SOMETHING with this lazy Lion. For my part, the 200+ Mountain Lion features are totally useless and a spent of money and disk space if I can't even switch between applications without groaning or if I can't finish my Page/Numbers work on schedule and without disturbances.
    My opinion: Mac OS X is a beautiful operating system but, for productivity purposes, stay away from Lion in any version. Because when you finish fixing all its mess, you will have lost your temper, your job or became insane, or all at once. It doesn't worth the while, better you invest the time with your family.

    These cats like beach balls a lot.
    I really hate to complain about any Apple product because this company really care about details and user experience. But this Lion thing is enough for me. Since I installed Lion on my computer, my work became a frustration. The computer decreased its speed 70% at least. Switching between applications became a torture while watching desperately the beach ball spinning endlessly until the solicited window draws completely. Numbers and Pages spend the time saving and saving taking from four to ten seconds each time while annoying me and stopping me from finishing my work and taking me out of concentration every five minutes or so. It's a hateful nuisance. The icons in Launchpad linger to draw, all I see for several seconds are their dotted frames until they want to appear. The whole machine freezes completely while the spinning beach ball spins happily and eternally until I force quitting application by application or reboot the computer at once, turning it off and on again for the third time this day, and the fifteenth time this week. Fixing privileges and cmd+alt+P+R don't work.
    I beared all this torture for months hoping Mountan would fix this mess. Oh, poor of me, such a naive user; the hours and hours downloading the upgrade with a child-like heart who expect to be given a wished gift were useless and disappointing. The result is the same or worse if I dare to use iCloud.
    So well. Fortunately for me, I had bought Tiger on disc a long ago... I'll draw back this weekend until Apple DO SOMETHING with this lazy Lion. For my part, the 200+ Mountain Lion features are totally useless and a spent of money and disk space if I can't even switch between applications without groaning or if I can't finish my Page/Numbers work on schedule and without disturbances.
    My opinion: Mac OS X is a beautiful operating system but, for productivity purposes, stay away from Lion in any version. Because when you finish fixing all its mess, you will have lost your temper, your job or became insane, or all at once. It doesn't worth the while, better you invest the time with your family.

  • Aperture will not open. Just an endless spinning beach ball. Will not force quick., Aperture will not open. Just an endless spinning beach ball. Will not force quit

    Every attempt to open Aperture results in a spinning beach ball. When attempting to force quit, every program freezes. I am running a MacBook Pro, OS X 10.9.3, 8 GB Ram. Have deleted and reinstalled the program from the App store with the same results. Purchased Aperture a few months ago and began without difficulties. However, recently, the program simply stopped working. Suggestions?

    Try a few of these:
    -Hold option while opening. This will ask you to create a new library/choose a different one. Create the new library, see if it opens
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    ->Try running Library First Aid (cmd + opt while opening)
    ->Make a backup first, run each of these until it opens.
    -If it does not open, test in Safe Mode (shift while booting)
    ->If it works there, it's user login items or startup items that can be removed from /Library/LaunchAgents, /Library/LaunchDaemons, /Library/StartupItems and ~/Library/LaunchAgents.
    ->Show no mercy in these folders, but don't trash everything just yet. Move it to a safe location on the desktop where you can easily put these files back. Reboot, test.
    ->Put some files back from harmless/well-known developers. Reboot, test.
    ->Rinse and repeat until Aperture doesn't open.
    -Test in a new user account
    ->If it opens here, it's part of your user preferences
    ->Log back in to your main user
    ->Open ~/Library/Preferences, pull com.Aperture.xxxxxx.plist
    ->Logout, log back in, test.
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  • How to stop the endless spinning beach ball??

    What am I supposed to do when something has obviously gone wrong & the beach ball is spinning round endlesly? In Windows you could just hit Control-Alt-Delete - is there nothing similar on a Mac?? I cannot close anything off or make it stop; if I force shut down, when I switch on again it is still there spinning round... Jeez, and people used to complain about the egg timer in Windows; this is 100 times worse; there seems to be no controls or anything to shut things off in this stupid Mac...?

    In Windows you could just hit Control-Alt-Delete - is there nothing similar on a Mac??
    OS X: How to quit an unresponsive application ... - Support - Apple

  • Simplest things cause spinning beach ball

    Yosemite:
    doing the simplest things (changing windows, playing videos) cause an endlessly spinning beach ball.
    had to restart 6 times in last hour, machine is now mostly useless
    suggest people do not download Yosemite

    I am having the same issue with the spinning ball on my 2010 MacBook Pro, except I had it before installing Yosemite too. Yosemite seemed to make it worse. Start up is very slow as well. Can someone help?
    This is the EtreCheck analysis I just ran:
    Problem description:
    spinning ball often, sluggish computer
    EtreCheck version: 2.1.8 (121)
    Report generated February 4, 2015 at 11:36:17 PM EST
    Download EtreCheck from http://etresoft.com/etrecheck
    Click the [Click for support] links for help with non-Apple products.
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    Hardware Information: ℹ️
        MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2010) (Technical Specifications)
        MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro7,1
        1 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU: 2-core
        4 GB RAM Upgradeable
            BANK 0/DIMM0
                2 GB DDR3 1067 MHz ok
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                2 GB DDR3 1067 MHz ok
        Bluetooth: Old - Handoff/Airdrop2 not supported
        Wireless:  en1: 802.11 a/b/g/n
        Battery Health: Normal - Cycle count 695
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        NVIDIA GeForce 320M - VRAM: 256 MB
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  • My MacBook is very slow and constantly has the spinning beach ball of death!!!

    In the last couple if weeks my MacBook has suddenly slowed down a LOT. Sometimes it takes ages for it to boot up when I turn it on and at other times not as long. Then once I log in, as soon as I click on something, the spinning beach ball appears and won't go away so I have to force it to restart.
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  • Spinning beach ball of death, crashes?

    Hi - I'm having problems with my couple-years-old MacBookAir lately. Specifically long periods where it freezes, the beach ball spins, and even a few crashes. It's not application-specific; it happens in Firefox, Mail, iPhoto... It does seem to have started when I started using iPhoto '11 (have had problems with that, too), but that could be coincidental. It's only started in the past few weeks. So far I've tried:
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    reinstalling Snow Leopard
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    Interval Since Last Panic Report: 70219 sec
    Panics Since Last Report: 1
    Anonymous UUID: D2447E7A-48EB-4F99-B0F9-36B4669CEB98
    Sat Dec 4 09:28:44 2010
    panic(cpu 0 caller 0x2a6ac2): Kernel trap at 0x30c63cf4, type 14=page fault, registers:
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    0x25932998 : 0x2a6ac2 (0x590a50 0x30c63cf4 0xe 0x590c1a)
    0x25932a78 : 0x29c968 (0x25932a90 0x4b6a780 0x25932b28 0x30c63cf4)
    0x25932a88 : 0x30c63cf4 (0xe 0x48 0x10 0x10)
    0x25932b28 : 0x30c1ec67 (0x1fff4000 0x20000001 0x25932b98 0x3066d6bc)
    0x25932b78 : 0x30c20d3f (0x1fff4000 0x5c02622 0x800 0x0)
    0x25932bf8 : 0x561a44 (0x1fff4000 0xa8d6b6c 0x25932e3c 0x28)
    0x25932c38 : 0x562b44 (0x30ca08c8 0x1fff4000 0xa8d6b6c 0x28)
    0x25932c88 : 0x5633be (0x1fff4000 0xb 0x25932cd0 0x0)
    0x25932da8 : 0x28421d (0x1fff4000 0xb 0xa8d6b68 0x0)
    0x25933e58 : 0x21d09c (0xa8d6b40 0x437d5a0 0x1fac28 0xa53f)
    0x25933e98 : 0x210234 (0xa8d6b00 0x0 0xaed42d0 0xaed96c0)
    0x25933ef8 : 0x216497 (0xa8d6b00 0x0 0x0 0x0)
    0x25933f78 : 0x2922ba (0x50b8188 0x0 0x0 0x0)
    0x25933fc8 : 0x29d44d (0x50b8184 0x0 0x10 0x4ab1f44)
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    dependency: com.apple.NVDAResman(6.0.0)@0x30eb4000
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    Mac OS version:
    10A432
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    Darwin Kernel Version 10.0.0: Fri Jul 31 22:47:34 PDT 2009; root:xnu-1456.1.25~1/RELEASE_I386
    System model name: MacBookAir2,1 (Mac-F42D88C8)
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    com.apple.driver.AppleHDAController 1.7.4a1
    com.apple.iokit.IOHDAFamily 1.7.4a1
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    Download EtreCheck from http://etresoft.com/etrecheck
    Click the [Click for support] links for help with non-Apple products.
    Click the [Click for details] links for more information about that line.
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        1 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 2-core
        8 GB RAM
            BANK 0/DIMM0
                4 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok
            BANK 1/DIMM0
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            Thunderbolt Display 2560 x 1440
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        APPLE SSD SM128E disk0 : (121.33 GB)
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            Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / : 120.47 GB (35.44 GB free)
            Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>  [Recovery]: 650 MB
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        X-Rite, Inc. ColorMunki Display
        Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)
        Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub
            Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
        Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
        Western Digital My Book 1230 4 TB
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            My Book (disk3s2) /Volumes/My Book 1 : 4.00 TB (3.89 TB free)
        Western Digital My Book 1230 4 TB
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        [loaded]    com.seagate.driver.PowSecLeafDriver_10_5 (5.2.6 - SDK 10.5) [Click for support]
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        [failed]    com.apple.coreservices.appleid.authentication.plist [Click for details]
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            Total number of backups: 38
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        198 MB    ColorMunkiDisplayTray
        103 MB    mds
        94 MB    Finder
        52 MB    WindowServer
        34 MB    Creative Cloud
    Virtual Memory Information: ℹ️
        5.20 GB    Free RAM
        1.03 GB    Active RAM
        458 MB    Inactive RAM
        1.90 GB    Wired RAM
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        41.33 GB    Page-outs

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    Virtual Memory Information: ℹ️
        5.20 GB    Free RAM
        1.03 GB    Active RAM
        458 MB    Inactive RAM
        1.90 GB    Wired RAM
        38.30 GB    Page-ins
       41.33 GB    Page-outs

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    Matthew

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  • Frequent Crashes - Unrecoverable spinning beach ball of death - with 10.5.7

    I upgraded to 10.5.6 when it was released. I experienced multiple kernel panics daily, many of which cited graphics related faults. So I reformatted the HD, reinstalled Leopard, and installed the 10.5.5 combo update.
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    My wife has had a very annoying problem on her MDD 1.25 for some time now and we're finally irritated enough to post. All too often while running Photoshop CS, Illustrator CS2, Quark Xpress 6 and Suitcase fusion this machine gets the beach ball. This happens when she may be opening a document, moving a document, applying an action, or anything within those apps at that matter. Sometimes it's so bad that she has to force quit and relaunch a particular app. Even opening the HDD sometimes seems like a chore as it sits and thinks. Things just don't seem to be as snappy as they once were. Suggestions?
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