ITunes spinning beach ball with update

I haven't seen this anywhere else on the net yet:
I'm having a problem with CPU hog when updating podcasts. iTunes has no problem when I just run the program (offline or if I don't have it automatically update podcasts). But once I set it to update or hit refresh I'm sunk.
Before the update (which I could of sworn I updated once before, but it just asked me to update again & it popped up in software update...) I never had a problem. Now iTunes spinning beach balls me every time.
All other apps act normally & no system slow down. Just iTunes.
HOWEVER, when looking in the Activity Monitor it actually says that iTunes is using 102% of my CPU! How can that be???
I've repaired permissions, trashed preferences, and reinstalled the program. No change.
Any ideas? Thanks!!
Message was edited by: Stephanie Lucchesi - added picture

Did some more testing & it appears that it only happens when I update video podcasts. Audio podcasts update without stalling iTunes.

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You have a corrupt preview or two i suspect. You can hopefully fix it my regenerating previews for your library - but depending on how many images you have it'll take a while.
If you click library, photos, select all photos.
Then in the photos menu you can select Update previews for library. And then wait a while.
Might be better to delete all previews first before you rebuild them. A quick way to do this is to, (back up first) navigate to your aperture library file, right click, show package contents and then delete the contents of the previews folder.
If you really want to go heavy duty on this you could clean out the thumbnails folder too.
Set the rebuild when you reopen aperture and if you've a lot of files go home and I'd let it work over night.
It's heavy but it should speed things up for you.
Hope this helps.
M.

Itunes is frozen and the spinning beach ball stays on. i can force quite ok but on opening again it does the same thing. HELP

I have the Mac os 10.6.3. Its been great but the last 4 days iTunes has frozen up. On opening iTunes spinning beach ball starts up and the only way to close iTunes is to force quite. I have nothing plugged into iTunes and i have scand iTunes with mackeeper but nothing. I then uninstalled iTunes and started fresh//./././.// NO GOOD, keeps doing the same thing. HELP

Maybe you should update your 10.6.3 to 10.6.8
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1399
Update iTunes 10.5.2
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1426

Spinning beach ball for 45-60 seconds, then fine

For several months now, I've had the spinning beach ball issue on my Macbook Pro. Within the first 5 minutes after boot up, the spinning beach ball will occur, seemingly at random (no specific app or action), for 45-60 seconds. While this happens, the system becomes completely unresponsive. But after this occurrence within the first five minutes after startup, it never happens again and everything is fine - until I reboot of course.
I am running Snow Leopard and this problem was happening before I installed Snow Leopard, so that's not it. But one thing I did do, which I am semi-convinced is the culprit, is I replaced my hard drive with a Seagate 500 mb Momentus drive. The actual model # is SEAST9500420AS. I don't know for sure, but that's around the time this issue first started. I know there is/was a spinning beach ball problem with the newer Macbook Pros and they were attributing it to the hard drive which just so happens to be the same hard drive I now have in my Macbook Pro. There was recently an EFI update that seemed to fix the problem for the newer models, but mine is the first generation right when they went to Intel chips (bought mine in April, 2006). Problem is, if it is my drive, this new EFI update that fixes the issue on the new models won't install on mine.
I also did a verify disk and repair disk permissions, but that was no help. Another thing I found going through the discussion groups was that the problem could happen because both the Macbook Pro and the Seagate drive have anti-shock technology that could conflict with one another. So if you disabled the anti-shock on the Macbook Pro, it might solve the problem as it seemed to for some folks out there. But I did that and it didn't help either.
I'm thinking it's my hard drive, but don't know how to fix it. But it could be something I haven't looked at yet or thought of. I've been trying everything the last several months with no luck and it's been driving me batty! What's really strange is it only happens once and always within the first 5 minutes after start up. Anybody have any suggestions? Thanks.

I just finished doing lots of different tests to try to solve my problem. Didn't resolve it, but I did manage to eliminate some things and narrow it down further.
First I removed all my login items and restarted my computer. That didn't fix the problem.
So then I thought it might have something to do with Safari since that's one of the first things I open up when I start my computer and there are numerous reports in the discussions of spinning beach balls with Safari 4.0.3 which I have. So I purposely did not open Safari after startup. Problem still happened.
So then I thought maybe it has something to do with my internet connection. So I disconnected my internet connection and rebooted. Then I only opened programs that don't use online access. I leisurely opened up a program, did a few things in it, closed it, and then did the same thing with another program. Did some things with Finder. Purposely did not rush things. Waited 4-5 seconds after every operation's completion before executing another task. Never had more than one program open at any given time to eliminate any issue with two many resources open. You guessed it - the problem STILL happened. Not that it matters, but it happened when I hit Command-I on my hard drive icon to get the info pane. A fairly innocuous task. Froze up with the spinning beach ball for at least 45-50 seconds. Tried clicking a few other things while this was happening, but nothing. Once it freed up, a few things I clicked on previously suddenly became active and everything was fine again. Tried Command-I for a lot of different things with no problem. Response was instantaneous.
It pretty much happens 3-4 minutes into a session and then never happens again. And I think my test here eliminated several possibilities. Very frustrating. I hope this helps someone come up with a possible solution. Thanks.

Is it iTunes creating beach balls?

Ever since I upgraded to iTunes 10, I have been having lots of spinning Beach Balls with various applications that I never had problems with before. I always have iTunes open. Also, for the first time, I get skips in the audio. I noticed yesterday that a video podcast paused in the audio - but not in the video.
I haven't selected Ping and don't have any intention to do so. I just use old iTunes capabilities.

I never checked to change the OS: in this web page. It is up to date. So that other thread still needs an answer.
This thread may be a problem with JewelCase, an add on to iTunes which displays lyrics on my Mac. At least that aborted (I sent Apple & JewelCase the abort). So I haven't run JewelCase for a couple of days and haven't had that problem)

Spinning beach ball - all applications

iMac Intel - ealry 2009 - spinning beach ball with all applications - could not force quit or use keyboard shortcuts to restart - had to perform hard restart - ran hardware test with original install disk and result was no error - not sure how to proceed

That is bad news. Sounds like the Hard Drive has failed. Try a
SMC RESET
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964
Shut down the computer.
Unplug the computer's power cord and ALL peripherals.
Wait 15 seconds.
Attach the computers power cable.
Wait another 5 seconds and press the power button to turn on the computer.
The 5 second timing is important to a successful reset.
That may reset power to the Hard Drive, but it's a long shot. Hope you have backups.

Spinning Beach Ball normal when syncing with itunes?

Just wondering if this is something that always happens to everyone - when syncing my iphone to itunes it will always stall for a few seconds and the spinning beach ball appears even though im using a brand new Macbook Air.
Is it normal? Will it always happen no matter what?
Thanks

Hi,
Since you haven't had your MBAir for long, make sure the system software is up to date.
Click the Apple () menu (top left in your screen) Software Update ...
And repair permissions.
Launch Disk Utility. (Applications/Utilities) Select MacintoshHD in the panel on the left, select the FirstAid tab. Click: Repair Disk Permissions. When it's finished from the Menu Bar, Quit Disk Utility and restart your Mac. If you see a long list of "messages" in the permissions window, it's ok. As long as you see, "Permissions Repair Complete" when it's finished... you're done.
If you see any warnings re: SUID messages, they can be safely ignored, information here: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1448?viewlocale=en_US 
Restart the MBAir and restart your iPhone and try syncing to iTunes. Make sure the iPhone battery is charged to 100% before syncing regardless of whether or not it's connected to your MBAir.
Carolyn

ITunes 7.7 Update and iPod classic = Spinning Beach Ball

Just upgraded to the new iTunes 7.7 (iphone 2.0 and app store support). After, I plugged in my ipod classic and it took almost 5 minutes of the "spinning beach ball" to recognize the ipod. I check and it says my software (1.1.2) is up to date. I ejected and tried it again. Same thing. Once recognized, the ipod classic seems to work fine in iTunes, but still not sure about all options.
Anyone else upgrade iTunes and find the same thing happening?
Note: No option to sync ipod classic games any more. A new "Applications" designation listed in iTunes 7.7 (which has my purchased games listed), but no way to "sync" them or resync them if there were to be an issue or if I wanted to remove the game now and sync it again later...

I'm having the same problem. Last night I wanted to update my iPhone to 2.0 so I had to update iTunes first. When I connect my iPhone, everything works fine (thank God). But quite a different story when I connected my 80 GB classic today. Spinning beachball, iPod icon appears on desktop and in Finder, but iTunes does not show my iPod.
I've tried everything I can think of from resetting my iPod to reinstalling iTunes. Nothing has worked for me.
Is there no fix to this yet? Has anyone solved the problem? Are we suppose to wait for Apple to solve this problem?
Dirk

Just ran a recent update, and computer woke up with plain blue screen and spinning beach ball, was it the update that made the computer crash?

just ran a recent update for my macbook pro/mid 2010, and the computer just woke up with a plain blue screen & spinning beach ball - I had to do a hard shut down.
I am also having the problem of having my screen going black for a couple of seconds, I read up on it in Support. But I was wondering if there is something else going on.
Any ideas?
thanks

Hmm sounds like a bad update, follow the links here
cheat sheet has a link to blue screen issues
do a data recovery first
https://discussions.apple.com/community/notebooks/macbook_pro?view=documents

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