(Mountain) Lion and its endless spinning beach ball.

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.

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Problem description: My macbook pro since this afteon has been slower, every application I open, it takes a long time to open, and shows the spinning beach ball for a while before it opens or performs some task, or responds to a click- EtreCheck

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My macbook pro since this afternoon has been slower, every application I open, it takes a long time to open, and shows the spinning beach ball for a while before it opens or performs some task, or responds to a click…
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Hardware Information: ℹ️
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    MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro8,1
    1 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 2-core
    16 GB RAM Upgradeable
        BANK 0/DIMM0
            8 GB DDR3 1333 MHz ok
        BANK 1/DIMM0
            8 GB DDR3 1333 MHz ok
    Bluetooth: Old - Handoff/Airdrop2 not supported
    Wireless: en1: 802.11 a/b/g/n
    Battery Health: Normal - Cycle count 250
Video Information: ℹ️
    Intel HD Graphics 3000 - VRAM: 512 MB
        Color LCD 1280 x 800
System Software: ℹ️
    OS X 10.10.2 (14C1514) - Time since boot: 0:25:47
Disk Information: ℹ️
    Hitachi HTS545032B9A302 disk0 : (320,07 GB)
        EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB
        Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted> [Recovery]: 650 MB
        Macintosh HD (disk1) / : 318.84 GB (47.94 GB free) - 51 errors
            Core Storage: disk0s2 319.21 GB Online
    MATSHITADVD-R   UJ-898
USB Information: ℹ️
    Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
    Apple Inc. BRCM2070 Hub
        Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
    Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)
    Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
Thunderbolt Information: ℹ️
    Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus
Gatekeeper: ℹ️
    Mac App Store and identified developers
Launch Agents: ℹ️
    [not loaded]    com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist [Click for support]
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    [running]    com.trusteer.rapport.rapportd.plist [Click for support]
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User internet Plug-ins: ℹ️
    npsf_cef: Version: sf 3.3.1.1 [Click for support]
    Google Earth Web Plug-in: Version: Unknown
Safari Extensions: ℹ️
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    DivX Plus Web Player HTML5 <video>
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    Java [Click for support]
    MacFUSE [Click for support]
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    Trusteer Endpoint Protection [Click for support]
Time Machine: ℹ️
    Skip System Files: NO
    Auto backup: YES
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    Destinations:
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        Last backup: 2015-03-29 19:28:06 +0000
        Size of backup disk: Excellent
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         1%    mds
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    155 MB    Safari
    120 MB    Finder
    86 MB    rapportd
    86 MB    WindowServer
    69 MB    mds_stores
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    Mar 31, 2015, 06:00:15 PM    Self test - passed
    Mar 31, 2015, 01:13:05 PM    /Users/[redacted]/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/Microsoft Error Reporting_2015-03-31-131305_[redacted].crash
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    Mar 29, 2015, 01:06:38 PM    /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/VLC_2015-03-29-130638_[redacted].hang
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Open Activity Monitor and kill this process - rapportd.
Reinstalling OS X Without Erasing the Drive
Boot to the Recovery HD: Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
Reinstalling OS X Without Erasing the Drive
Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions: Upon startup select Disk Utility from the main menu. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions as follows.
When the recovery menu appears select Disk Utility and press the Continue button. After Disk Utility loads select the Macintosh HD entry from the the left side list. Click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If Disk Utility reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit Disk Utility and return to the main menu.
Reinstall OS X: Select Reinstall OS X and click on the Continue button.
Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet if possible because it is three times faster than wireless.
Alternatively, see:
Reinstall OS X Without Erasing the Drive
Choose the version you have installed now:
OS X Yosemite- Reinstall OS X
OS X Mavericks- Reinstall OS X
OS X Mountain Lion- Reinstall OS X
OS X Lion- Reinstall Mac OS X
     Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet
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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 .

I bought macbook pro and update my osx, i already have the codes and install mountain lion and its been 2 days now and still downloading mode

i bought macbook pro and update my osx, i already have the codes and install mountain lion and its been 2 days now and still downloading mode

Disable anti virus software.
Apps such as Little Snitch, Net Nanny, and Hands Off can prevent apps from downloading including Mountain Lion as well as third party download managers.
Keep in mind, for downloading Mountain Lion from the App Store, a high speed (broadband) internet connection is strongly recommended by Apple as noted here > iTUNES STORE - MAC APP STORE - TERMS AND CONDITIONS
If you need to reinstall OS X or repair the the startup disk using Mountain Lion Recovery, that requires broadband access to the internet via Wi-Fi or an Ethernet connection. OS X is downloaded over the internet form Apple when OS X Recovery is used for reinstallation.

Clean install of Lion has lots of spinning beach balls?

I did a clean install of Lion last week. Before I installed any applications or made any personal preference changes I updated the Lion with all software updates.
However after thinking this was a near perfect/clean install after I week I seem to experience lots of spinning beach balls. My wife notices it a lot when she's checking her school web email, which she seems to lose her cursor for several minutes with beach balls.
I don't know what's going on...I ran verify disk permissions with no change.
Ideas?

As an experiment, I would see if using something like the OpenDNS or Google DNS servers has any effect. Often times while doing networking things, there are name lookups and if the DNS servers are slow, or unresponsive, you can see network delays.
System Preferences -> Network -> Advanced -> DNS -> [+] (click the plus button at the bottom of the list to add new DNS entries). The one at the top of the list will be your primary DNS server.
OpenDNS.org
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220
Google DNS
8.8.8.8
8.8.4.4

New MacBook and The Infinitely Spinning Beach Ball: Anybody Else?

I wonder if I'm the only MacBook owner having this experience, or if there might be some company in my misery?
I purchased a new Aluminum MacBook on Nov.14. This one is the high-end, 2.4GHz model with 4GB of RAM and currently running OSX 10.5.5.
I have in the past few days (or week, or so) encountered what appears to be an intermittent performance failure. I will, for example, be in Apple Mail: Open a new message to compose, and as soon as I click on the open window, the beach balls starts spinning... and continues to spin for a minute or two. Typically, when this starts happening, when I get the cursor back I click again, and the beachball resumes spinning.
This will also happen in Firefox, or, as it did yesterday, even accessing items in the upper-right menu bar. Suspecting an impending hard-drive failure, I clicked the Time Capsule icon in the menu to see when I got my last backup, and instead of getting Time Capsule, I got... the spinning beach ball of death.
The most difficult thing about this dilemma is that it appears to be intermittent. I took the MacBook to the dealer that sold it to me yesterday, was unable to replicate the issues. Everything worked fine in the store. Came home, problem returned for about 10 or 15 minutes, then it went away and the computer performed normally until I closed the lid to go out for the evening.
Then this morning I opened the lid again and.... spinning beach balls for a total of about 17 minutes. And now, again, it appears to be working fine.
While I was at the store, we ran a disc verify in disk utility, and it returned the message "The volume Macintosh HD appears to be OK."
This is the worst kind of problem -- the intermittent one. I suspect something in the computer itself, in the believe that hardware issues are more likely to be intermittent than software issues; I could be wrong about that, I dunno.
All I do know is that I can have maddening periods when I can't do anything with the computer, and then, just as suddenly, everything goes back to normal.
So I wonder if there might be anything in the circuitry in these new MacBooks that might be causing a similar problem for others. Or is this my unique cross to bear until the thing goes completely south?
Thanks,
--PS

Have you tried running the diagnostics from the Leopard disc? If not, give it a go to see what it finds. To run it, boot while holding the "d" key (with Leopard disc in ofcourse).
Haven't tried that, I did not know that was on the disk. I'll run it, how long might it take? What sort of tests does it run, what sort of results should I expect?
Another thing to try is reset the SMC.
Following the link you provided suggests there might be some things in the SMC that could be causing my problems. Should I do that before or after I run the diagnostics? Would the diagnostics tell me if that's something I need to do?
If still nothing... perhaps a reinstall of Leopard.
I call that the "Vietnam Solution" -- destroying the village in order to save it. I thought was done with that sort of thing when I abandoned PCs and Windows. Not a desirable outcome.
As a last resort, you might consider trying a new hard drive. A failing drive can cause theses intermittent delays.
That was my initial thought, too. Are there any diagnostics I can run besides dick utility to determine the integrity of the hard drive? Do the diagnostics on the Leopard install disk do that?
Thanks,
--PS

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

FCPX 10.1 Very slow on iMac and lots of spinning beach balls

I have noticed since I have started to use FCPX 10.1 on my Late 2012 iMac (32GB RAM, 680MX Graphics, i7 quad core, thunderbold Arecca Raid) I am getting lots of spinning beach balls and things are generally slower.
I am really hoping Apple thought about people who cannot affored a Mac Pro, and ensure the performance is also good on iMacs, but unfortunately I am seeing a drop in performance compared to 10.0.9.
Has anyone else with an iMac noticed this?

Same experience after upgrading to 10.1 on mid 2011 27" imac 3.4 i7 16GB of RAM. I was midway through a project when I upgraded but I also made a copy of 10.0.9 and the project so i could go back to it if anything went sideways. The project is all RED 4K and it was smooth as could be before the upgrade. Now if you just want to grab a clip and move it around the timeline there is a three second delay before you can do so. Even just grabbing an audio file and moving it a couple frames forward causes it throw a beach ball up. Play back of the timeline is perfect though, no dropped frames or anything.
As it is right now I'm loading up 10.0.9 and finishing this project. After it's done I will try and start a library from scratch and see if that makes a difference. Right now, 10.1 is just unusable for me unfortunatley.
I really hope they didn't just make my iMac obsolete.

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
->If it opens, it's a library issue. Swap the library back to the original one.
->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.
If it keeps up, contact Apple or try verifying/repairing the disk through Disk Utility.

Very Strange iPhoto problem and lots of spinning beach balls!

Hi - been using iPhoto 08 since it came out. Never a problem. About a week ago things starting going weird. It would crash and I'd get the spinning beach ball a lot. This never happened ever. It got so bad I jumped on here, followed some advice and downloaded iphoto library manager. I rebuilt my library - no change. I would double click a photo to enlarge it and it would just stop with a spinning ball. Other programs worked fine, just iPhoto would ground to a halt. Then I noticed some pics I would double click to enlarge would be corrupt. Grey half way down or black completely? They use to be fine. So I got so frustrated that I reinstalled Leopard. Everything worked fine. I even downloaded a trial Lightroom and it worked fine too with a project of mine. Tonight I decided to test iPhoto and it is still playing up. My iMac is a 24 with all latest updates. 4 Gig ram. Hard drive has 250 gig available. my iPhoto library is on an external drive which has 140 gig available. Something went wrong in the last week or so. Is there a way to search out and find a corrupt file or whatever is causing my mac to struggle using iphoto? Thanks so very much for any help.
Rob

Have you tried to rebuild the library? Make a backup of it first and then launch iPhoto with the Command+Option keys depressed and follow the instructions to rebuild the library. Select all the options.
If that doesn't clear up iPhoto's problems rebuild the library with iPhoto Library Manager as follows:
Using iPhoto Library Manager to Rebuild Your iPhoto Library
1 -Download iPhoto Library Manager and launch.
2 -Click on the Add Library button, navigate to your User/Pictures folder and select your iPhoto Library folder.
3 - Now that the library is listed in the left hand pane of iPLM, click on your library and go to the File->Rebuild Library menu option
4 - In the next window name the new library and select the location you want it to be placed.
5 - Click on the Create button.
Note: This creates a new library based on the LIbraryData.xml file in the library and will recover Events, Albums, keywords, titles and comments but not books, calendars or slideshows. The original library will be untouched for further attempts at fixing or in case the rebuilt library is not satisfactory .
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto (iPhoto.Library for iPhoto 5 and earlier versions) database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.
I've created an Automator workflow application (requires Tiger or later), iPhoto dB File Backup, that will copy the selected Library6.iPhoto file from your iPhoto Library folder to the Pictures folder, replacing any previous version of it. There are versions that are compatible with iPhoto 5, 6, 7 and 8 libraries and Tiger and Leopard. Just put the application in the Dock and click on it whenever you want to backup the dB file. iPhoto does not have to be closed to run the application, just idle. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.
NOTE: iPhoto 8's (09) new option in the library rebuild pane, "Rebuild the iPhoto Library Database from automatic backup" may make this tip obsolete. We'll know when users have occasion to use it and see if that's the case.

IBook freezing up during internet use and getting the spinning beach ball

I have a iBook 1.33 PowerPC G4 with 512 DDR SDRAM running 10.3.9. I just recently had the hard drive replaced due to it failing. The computer was bought, I believe, back in 2004 so the AppleCare has run out. We also had a new power supply sent to us by Apple because the power pack was over heating. Ever since the hard drive was replaced, it runs fine for about 15 to 20 minutes, then the spinning beach ball appears. It happens every time I'm running my wireless network. I'll be using Safari and the beach ball appears. The only way to shut the computer down is by physically pushing the power button to shut it off. I'm not able to force quit out of anything. Any suggestions? I hear that it's a software issue or a logic board issue or an airport issue or etc. It's frustrating and I don't know where to start. With the bad power pack would that have caused a problem?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

One place to start might be to run the Apple Hardware Test and see if anything shows up. Also, you could use disc utility to verify and repair permissions and the disc if necessary. I don't know if that would help, but it would at least serve to eliminate some potential factors.
Good luck!

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

I just activated Lion and I get the beach ball with every action?

I am using a Mac Pro and have been using Snow Leopard, installed on one Hard Drive, with no problems. I have downloaded and installed Lion on another drive and when I activate it every time I click on anything with the pointer I get the BEACH BALL for about 4 minutes. There must be a solution, but I can't find it.
Help!
Bob

Have a look into the Preferences folder (YourUserFolder/Libraries/Preferences/) and trash all Logic preferences.
You'll have to setup the program again.
cheers
rob

I just downloaded Mountain lion and its deleted EVERYTHING! How can i get it back??

I just downloaded Mountain lion for my mac book pro, and now it has deleted everything on here. Its my school laptop and i will be killed if i can't fix it!!! Can anyone help me get all my memory back??

Restore the system from your Time Machine Backup.
Just downloading and Installing OS X Mountain Lion does not Delete anythng. That is a User choice and not really even a choice during the normal install of Mt Lion.
So it was Not Mt Lion that Deleted everything, that was you that made that choice during the install.
Maybe you shouldn't of made those choices with a computer you needed to use for school.

I am Installing OS X mountain lion and its frozen while installing

I have been having some problems with my imac for some time now. It kept freezing and crashing. I tried upping the ram and that didn't help. I also ran the fix disk and that didnt help. So I backed everything up and erased the hard drive and attempted to reinstall OS X mountain lion. It downloaded the software fine and restarted and took me to a install screen where it has been stuck on 21min remaining with nothing happening for a long time now ( well over 21min). Is there anything I can do to get it going and installing?

Here is a link: https://itunes.apple.com/en/app/mplayerx/id421131143?mt=12
I agree that VLC is also a good choice but MPlayerX is more user friendly.

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