LONG display of rainbow pinwheel/beachball
I am fairly new to the mac OS. I have almost made the FULL switch to using only the mac. It is a great system.
The problem I'm having is when I sit down at the machine and want to start the mail app or Safari app. I end up waiting a while for the machine to think about it them it finally opens the app.
During this wait I get the lovely beach-ball/pinwheel. Not sure what's going on here. Why is it so slow to get going?
I do have a large photo collection (980 photos), as well as home movies. But I have about 15 GB left on my hard-drive?
Any suggestions would be great as my PC never hangs likes this...
This is a new thing the MAC is doing...
My thought is to try to find out what process is using lots of cpu cycles, thereby causing the freeze and the spinning beachball.
To try do to that, start Activity Monitor from the Utilities menu. Under Monitor, select Show Activity Monitor. Then, click on %cpu and make sure the triangle is pointing down. Then, do whatever it takes to make the freeze occur. Look in Activity Monitor to see if some app is consuming lots of cpu cycles - perhaps 50% or more.
If you can identify something, someone can probably offer a suggestion. Often it is a matter of removing a corrupted preference file. Sometimes 3rd party items interfere with Apple apps and cause these hangs.
EMAC G4 1.0 GHz Mac OS X (10.4.3)
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