Help - the spinning wheel is going to kill me.
I am a powerBook G4 user with OS X3.9. It took forever just to get to this posting because anytime I am in my Safari Browser (1.3.2) the spinning wheel comes up on every click, anytime i try to scroll the page, any time i try to fill in an empty field box, etc. It is now starting to come up when i open a new finder window and inside Adobe InDesign CS. It is really hindering my work.
I have tried to search through these forums for help and while there are messages addressing this... i must be ******** and do not understand or see any solutions. I did try booting up with the original system disk and used the diagnostics to scan the computer for any problems. 100 % okay.
I feel i have enough ram and disk space that this should not be happening. I purchased OS X 4 but am afraid to upgrade as this problem will probably get worse. It is very hard to getting any work done! Please help!
You're Welcome QueenB_7706!
'Disk = 80BG/3GB available"
Thomas Bryant is correct.
You do not have enough available HD space. Create as much as possible ASAP, as this situation can cause corruption , and possible loss of data!
For tonight, plug the power adapter into the PowerBook, and let it run all night, without sleeping.
That may clean out some large temporary log files.
Here are some additional documents to review.
Problems From Insufficient RAM And Free Hard Disk Space, authored by Dr Smoke
Freeing Space On your Mac OS X Staryup Disk, authored by Dr Smoke
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My Macbook Pro keeps getting the spinning wheel...
Hello there.
This seems to be something thats asked about quite often. I wanted to see if there was something I could do to fix this problem without having to go to Apple. and if not, it is what it is. ....I have a Macbook Pro, bought it in 2011...has really never ever given me any issues, I havent really been using it all that much like I used to but I'll be using it alot more now that Ill be returning to college...I will say, its usually worse with safari. With Google Chrome it isn't quite as bad.
It's just been real slow lately, usually freezes up, then the spinning wheel pops up, usually doesnt go away, sometimes does...usually doesnt though...If the spinning wheel doesn't show up, another thing that may happen is if I hover over an app, say itunes or google chrome, the icon of the app will enlarge like it normally does, but when I scroll away and as the cursor goes away from the icon, the icon stay enlarged, and doesnt allow me to double click it or really anything...that doesnt happen quite as often as the spinning wheel though
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Hello,
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User differs on "System/Library/Java/JavaVirtual Machines/ 1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Home/lib" Should be 0 is 95
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Permissions you can ignore on 10.5 onwards:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1448
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Poster rccharles has provided this description of what it all means:
drwxrwxrwx
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