Moving Size Slider Results In Spinning Beachball On G3 iMac !

I have given my wife my old G3 600MHz iMac (256MB RAM).
Before doing so I erased it and intalled OSX 10.4.10 and QT 7.3.
When we opened iPhoto 5 everything seemed OK. We imported 108 photos from a 5 megapixel camera, scrolled through them etc. and played a slideshow.
Then we double-clicked a photo to select it and moved the size slider to enlarge it. Immediately the spinning beachball appeared and stayed there for ages before any enlargement occurred.
This only happened when altering the size of a selected picture - not when changing the sizes of the whole album display.
I installed iPhoto 4 which seemed to work OK.
Though the iMac is not tremendously powerful, I originally used it in OS 9.2 and Tiger to edit videos in iMovie and Premiere 6.5 with no problems. I also manipulated photos in Photoshop Elements 2 effortlessly.
So I don't think lack of power is the problem. It's as though there is some kind of conflict.
Any ideas why that one feature causes a freeze?
Ian.
P.S. The Hard Drive has nothing on it apart from the OS and applications.

I double-click the thumbnail and it of course loads the picture full size.
Then when I try to move the slider to enlarge it further, the slider does not move and the beachball appears.
I also notice that the "Adjust" command invokes a window with only "Brightness" and "Contrast", just like iPhoto 4.
I have deleted and reinstalled everything etc. and it appears my G3 does not like iPhoto 05.
I think I will make do with version 4. After all it's only my wife who will be using it and to her that is over-the-top hi-tech stuff!
Luckily, for me, she cannot access these forums!
Thanks for your help.
Ian.

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Migration apparently partially failed.
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I can't seem to re-initiate migration assistant, so that the two machines recognize each other.
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Any ideas?
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Brand new iMac 2.7 GHz with Mountain Lion.
Migrated Applications folder.
It said to retry, that something failed in the migration. (I presume its a few Universal apps). I have not been successful in reconnecting the two.
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Another Q:
All the migration assistant directions say to connect to the same network. That presumes through your router which is ONLINE.
Is that safe to do - since apparently the Macs now ship with the firewall turned off?
The new machine does not have firewire. Which leaves ethernet.
Drilling down, there are instructions which imply creating a safe network configuration but never explains how,
or else direct connecting using ethernet. Is there a manual with detail instructions & explaining ramifications?

Thanks, guys (or gals)...
Migration Assistant
I've never bothered with MA more than once. It didn't seem as robust of featured as it ought to be. Didn't really want to buy more software ontop of it by going to CCC or something like that.
What Migrated
The only thing I moved was the applications folder. That may still have a universal app in it, or two.
Everything runs fine - until it doesn't. Leaving me rather annoyed. A brand new machine shouldn't have a "gotcha" associated & 16 GB of installed RAM should blush if it ever sees the beach ball on a simple browser launch!
Lions & Lions
I have several external drives. Was hoping to just run the migration overnight rather than back anything up & work from that.
The thing though: I am moving from Lion on the older machine to Mountain Lion on the new one, so I've got to figure out how to acquire Mountain Lion again. It not a matter of pulling it off Time Machine, because what I would get is the wrong OS.
Aside: I have no interest in moving the older machine to ML (the last vintage of iMac that can run ML) until I know all my apps work.
I am not going to update any software I don't HAVE to at this time - that would cost much more than the iMac did.
I would call Apple for the tech support, & may eventually do so...
How about the idea that an online router gets used as the network conduit for the transfer to begin with - on what turns out is a new machine without the firewall active by default.
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S-L-O-O-O-W!!!! Has this issue been resolved? Spinning Beachball every time I change anything!

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Spinning Beachball: what's going on?

Hello everyone. I keep getting the spinning beachball with even the simplest of actions. What do I mean? Allow me to elaborate. This is happening so often that I've ran several virus scans, I've done the permissions things, run daily, weekly and monthly maintenance scripts, deleted plists, etc. Here are a few of the scenarios. I use the mouse to use the scrolling bar: I get the spinning beach ball
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The next time you have the problem, note the exact times when it starts and ends: hour, minute, second.
If you have more than one user account, these instructions must be carried out as an administrator.
Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
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☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
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Logic pro 9.1.8 won't load and I get spinning beachball of death

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Sorry to state the obvious (?) but you are not Updating/Upgrading.
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If you want to downgrade, likely you will need to ERASE, and reinstall Logic.
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HT2506 I use Preview to edit photos, and would like to know if there are any Preview updates in the works. I find there is a problem with Preview crashing, or taking a very long time to "catch up" (spinning beachball of death) while I'm editing.

I use Preview to edit photos, and would like to know if there are any updates to this program in the works. It seems Apple is constantly updating its software, except for Preview. I find it crashes all too often, and also takes forever to "catch up" with me (as in spinning beachball of death) when I'm editing a lrge amount of photos. Yes, I know I should be using Photoshop or somesuch, but it's just too **** confusing, and I don't have the time to figure it out. Thanks!!

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☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
Step 1
Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left. If you don't see that menu, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar.
Enter the name of the crashed application or process in the Filter text field. Select the messages from the time of the last crash, if any. Copy them to the Clipboard (command-C). Paste into a reply to this message (command-V).
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Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
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Step 2
In the Console window, look under User Diagnostic Reports for crash reports related to the crashed process. The report name starts with the name of the process, and ends with ".crash". Select the most recent report and post the entire contents — again, the text, not a screenshot. In the interest of privacy, I suggest that, before posting, you edit out the “Anonymous UUID,” a long string of letters, numbers, and dashes in the header of the report, if it’s present (it may not be.) Please don’t post shutdownStall, spin, or hang logs — they're very long and not helpful.

Spinning Beachball of Death . . . why did I have to Force Quit ???

Folks:
Last week I had an episode of multiple recurring "application not
responding" errors while trying to select and scroll down through a couple
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recent episode all happened and it seemed to be OK. But it has been mentioned
here that mr Mel is "processor intensive" and could be just testing the limits
of my 2nd HD??? OR is the test over and all that is left is the funeral pyre for
Macinto II??
Would essentially a 2MB Mellel file be too large for my 933 MHz G4 iBook
with 640 MB DDR SDRAM running Mellel 2.2.7 (build b9) on 10.4.11 . . . to handle
even if it was totally in fighting condition?? Or is the probably 3 year old HD
being brought to expiration by having to deal with running the features that are
brought to the table by mr Mel??
Thanks for any thoughts,
eep

Word processors typically load a large portion of a file into RAM for editing. When more of the document is needed it pages out the unneeded portion and reads more of the document into RAM. So in practice no document is too large. None of your "surmises" would seem to make sense.
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I suggest reading the following:
Kappy's Personal Suggestions for OS X Maintenance
For disk repairs use Disk Utility. For situations DU cannot handle the best third-party utilities are: Disk Warrior; DW only fixes problems with the disk directory, but most disk problems are caused by directory corruption; Disk Warrior 4.x is now Intel Mac compatible. TechTool Pro provides additional repair options including file repair and recovery, system diagnostics, and disk defragmentation. TechTool Pro 4.5.1 or higher are Intel Mac compatible; Drive Genius is similar to TechTool Pro in terms of the various repair services provided. Versions 1.5.1 or later are Intel Mac compatible.
OS X performs certain maintenance functions that are scheduled to occur on a daily, weekly, or monthly period. The maintenance scripts run in the early AM only if the computer is turned on 24/7 (no sleep.) If this isn't the case, then an excellent solution is to download and install a shareware utility such as Macaroni, JAW PseudoAnacron, or Anacron that will automate the maintenance activity regardless of whether the computer is turned off or asleep. Dependence upon third-party utilities to run the periodic maintenance scripts had been significantly reduced in Tiger and Leopard.
OS X automatically defrags files less than 20 MBs in size, so unless you have a disk full of very large files there's little need for defragmenting the hard drive. As for virus protection there are few if any such animals affecting OS X. You can protect the computer easily using the freeware Open Source virus protection software ClamXAV. Personally I would avoid most commercial anti-virus software because of their potential for causing problems.
I would also recommend downloading the shareware utility TinkerTool System that you can use for periodic maintenance such as removing old logfiles and archives, clearing caches, etc.
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When you install any new system software or updates be sure to repair the hard drive and permissions beforehand. I also recommend booting into safe mode before doing system software updates.
Get an external Firewire drive at least equal in size to the internal hard drive and make (and maintain) a bootable clone/backup. You can make a bootable clone using the Restore option of Disk Utility. You can also make and maintain clones with good backup software. My personal recommendations are (order is not significant):
1. Retrospect Desktop (Commercial - not yet universal binary)
2. Synchronize! Pro X (Commercial)
3. Synk (Backup, Standard, or Pro)
4. Deja Vu (Shareware)
5. Carbon Copy Cloner (Donationware)
6. SuperDuper! (Commercial)
7. Intego Personal Backup (Commercial)
8. Data Backup (Commercial)
9. SilverKeeper 2.0 (Freeware)
10. MimMac (Commercial)
11. CloneTool Hatchery (Shareware)
12. Clone X (Commercial)
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1. Backup (requires a .Mac account with Apple both to get the software and to use it.)
2. Toast
3. Impression
4. arRSync
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Impression and Toast are disk image based backups, only. Particularly useful if you need to backup to CD/DVD across multiple media.
Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQs on maintenance, optimization, virus protection, and backup and restore.
Additional suggestions will be found in Mac Maintenance Quick Assist.
Referenced software can be found at www.versiontracker.com and www.macupdate.com.

What's with the spinning beachball in iTunes recently? Is it just us?

Since sometime in June (2009), I've noticed strangeness in my iTunes - mainly on my home computer, an Intel iMac G5 (purchased Dec 2008) with iTunes music stored on a Firewire 800 external hard drive (SimpleTech 1TB). We have two iPod Classics (120 GB) set up for manual syncing and almost anytime we drag and drop music from iTunes to the iPods, the beachball will spin from 20 seconds up to probably a minute. The music library is about 250 GB, which I guess is pretty large but we never noticed anything until recently. It's extremely frustrating. I know that sometime recently I had to force quit while iTunes was waiting to receive Genius info - it was hung up for almost a half hour and I figured I would just start from scratch, but that didn't seem to make a difference... I'm still spending lots of time waiting for the spinning beach ball to stop... Any ideas?
Message was edited by: Mark1030

OK. So I figured out that I can start up using my Leopard install disc and than run Disk Utility>Disk Repair. (Unplugged all peripherals to be safe.) The result: It says my HD is fine.
Which brings me back to square one. I'm having one primary problem that's maddening. If I drag and drop songs from iTunes 8.2 to my iPod Classic 120GB (set for manual sync), I am greeted with a spinning beachball for some amount of time - typically 30 seconds to a couple of minutes. Strange.
This has never happened before and I'm pretty OCD about keeping my 250GB-ish iTunes library clean and organized. The only third party app I'm using is iVolume 2. I'm not sure what to do except wait and see if a future update will fix this. Anyone else having a similar problem?

One possible reason for the spinning beachball with versions 10.0.2 trying to play/see anything

Hi there.
I discovered today what is the reason for the strange problem I've been having with FCP X from 10.0.2+. The problem was that I just couldn't use it: I couldn't see any media in the canvas/preview pane, no matter if it was video, jpgs, psds, whatever. Trying to use or reproduce a project was just more of the same: a spinning beachball forever. At some point, from time to time, the black from the preview pane changes to a checkboard, but that was all.
This happened in 10.0.3, 10.0.4 and 10.0.5.
I tried everything, removing the events, projects, and so on. The only thing that worked was to create a new user in my machine and use FCPX there. Everything seems to work fine there. I did that yesterday at 3am. Today I saw that the colors were off in that user, and I remembered that the calibration is not setup at the system level, but for each user, so went on to change the profile to use the one I did for my screen (I have my screens calibrated frequently). Voilá, now FCPX doesn't work anymore on the new user. The only change was the profile, so I went to System Preferences, selected the old (default) profile, and now FCPX works fine.
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I will try some other calibration software and see if the results are the same, but I thought of sharing my findings here in case someone is still having this issue.
Tomorrow that the 5770 arrives for my Mac Pro 1,1 I'll try to run it, also with the calibrated screen, and see what happens.
HTH,
Rodrigo

I'm sorry, but I'm not sure what you mean with "the profile is downstream from ColorSync"?
I'm willing to accept that there is something wrong with the way ColorEyes DisplayPro is making the profile, although if the OS loads it and uses it and doesn't complain at all - nor any other app I use - I don't see why FCP should have issues with it. But I'm willing to try some other app to create the profile for the screen and will do as soon as I can get my hands on some other.
Between lines, hopefully I'm wrong, but I read you are telling me that FCP doesn't support having a "typical" monitor calibration, usual in printing/photography/etc workflows, but only supports calibrated output through broadcast monitors, using third party hardware? And that in the Color screen settings I must not use any "user generated" screen profile?

Spinning beachball on login/authentication, but only when connected

Since installing a new router (Linksys WRTP54G) and Airport Express (in WDS mode), I get the spinning beachball of death when logging in after sleep, switching users, or authenticating on a wireless iBook G4 (OS X.3.9). I've waited for many minutes, but the beachball doesn't go away. If I turn off Airport, everything works fine. I don't have this problem on my other wireless laptop (Powerbook G4).
Below is an excerpt from the iBook system log in case it's helpful.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Thad
iBook system log excerpt:
Jun 11 09:39:30 localhost /Applications/Utilities/Keychain Access.app/Contents/MacOS/Keychain Access: Couldn't create temp file /Library/Keychains/~asRN8RnnIF6YGvNL: Permission denied
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Jun 11 09:40:28 localhost KeyAccess: local login
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Jun 11 09:40:30 localhost LoginHook: Executing /etc/hooks/LI99.email_config...
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Jun 11 09:40:35 localhost /System/Library/CoreServices/ARD Agent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARD Agent: ******Launched Agent******
Jun 11 09:40:51 localhost /System/Library/CoreServices/ARD Agent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARD Agent: ******Launched Agent******
Jun 11 09:40:55 localhost /etc/logout.hook[1013]: Not using iHook.
Jun 11 09:40:55 localhost ConsoleMessage: Starting netOctopus Agent
Jun 11 09:40:57 localhost KeyAccess: local login
Jun 11 09:40:59 localhost /System/Library/CoreServices/ARD Agent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARD Agent: ******Launched Agent******
Jun 11 09:41:01 localhost ConsoleMessage: Starting netOctopus Agent
Jun 11 09:41:04 localhost /System/Library/CoreServices/SecurityAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/SecurityAgent: Kerberos authentication result:220; ERR (stderr:Cannot resolve network address for KDC in requested realm (error=-1765328164) )
Jun 11 09:41:05 localhost KeyAccess: local login
Jun 11 09:41:05 localhost KeyAccess: local login
Jun 11 09:41:08 localhost /System/Library/CoreServices/ARD Agent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARD Agent: ******Launched Agent******
Jun 11 09:41:09 localhost ConsoleMessage: Starting netOctopus Agent
Jun 11 09:41:10 localhost kernel: AirPort: Link Active: "Polk Household" - 00145171117d - chan 11
Jun 11 09:41:12 localhost configd[84]: executing /System/Library/SystemConfiguration/Kicker.bundle/Contents/Resources/set-hostna me
Jun 11 09:41:12 localhost configd[84]: posting notification com.apple.system.config.network_change
Jun 11 09:41:12 localhost mach_init[2]: Server 0 in bootstrap d03 uid 0: "/usr/sbin/lookupd": exited as a result of signal 1 [pid 936]
Jun 11 09:41:13 localhost lookupd[1056]: lookupd (version 324.13) starting - Sun Jun 11 09:41:13 2006
Jun 11 09:41:14 localhost set-hostname[1061]: setting hostname to mac-tpolk07
iBook/Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9) Linksys WRTP54G router, Airport Express

You might have to update your Airports Firmware and
your OSX.
Thanks for the suggestion. I haven't updated my OS, but I did update the Airport Express firmware (to v6.3). Unfortunately, I still get the spinning beach ball.
Any other thoughts?

Print . . . spinning beachball

I already posted a similar question a few weeks agao, but I’m doing so again in hopes that someone may be able to suggest a work around or fix.
We used to use AW to keep track of invoices for our magazine -- it worked well even though some files were over 200 pages long (each page being a separate invoice.) Since Apple has now abandoned AW, and since we started to experience some issues, we switched our invoices to Pages. But its so frustrating because I get the spinning beachball every time I print a section of a long Pages document.
We have a long Pages file that we use to keep track of invoices. Every page is a separate invoice. I have a new IMac (20 inch, 2.4 Ghz and I Gig of ram). Pages opens and runs fairly fast, but when I try to print, I get the spinning beachball for 20 - 30 -40 seconds or so every time. This is VERY frustrating!!
An earlier reply advised that Pages is designed to load load an entire document when you hit the ‘print’ command, not just the pages that you want to have print. This makes no sense to me and it is what is causing all the problems.
On top of this, in AW you could create a new document and tell the program to start the first page at another page other that page 1 (say #200 for example.) Even though Pages ‘replaced’ AW, you cannot do this. Again, this makes no sense to me.
Can anyone help?
Thanks in advance for your time.
Eric W.
Victoria, Canada

Hello
The program was not modified since your first question.
So, there is no reason for a new behavior.
Pages is slow. My guess is that this is due to the way it treats XML.
As we are users trying to help other users we can't change that.
_Go to "Provide Pages Feedback" in the "Pages" menu_, describe what you wish.
Then, cross your fingers, and wait _at least_ for iWork'09
It seems that Apple never understood what we where doing with AppleWorks and designed iWork for a size of documents smaller than the one we are accustomed to.
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE vendredi 8 août 2008 11:20:18)

*PLEASE HELP* Spinning beachball keeps coming up-

Hey guys, even though I've got 500mb of RAM available for OSX to use the spinning beachball comes up every now and again and when it appears I’m unable to do anything other than move my mouse. I’m running latest version of OSX Mavericks.
Thanks!

The spinning beachball seems to be appearing more often and it stays a lot longer too!
My system is completely unresponsive when the beachball appears!
Here it is:
Hardware Information:
Mac mini - model: Macmini5,1
1 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 2 cores
8 GB RAM
Video Information:
Intel HD Graphics 3000 - VRAM: 512 MB
System Software:
OS X 10.9.4 (13E28) - Uptime: 1 day 2:29:34
Disk Information:
Hitachi HTS545050B9A302 disk0 : (500.11 GB)
EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / [Startup]: 499.25 GB (70.16 GB free)
Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
Thunderbolt Information:
Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus
Gatekeeper:
Mac App Store and identified developers
Kernel Extensions:
[kext loaded] at.obdev.nke.LittleSnitch (4098 - SDK 10.8) Support
[not loaded] com.Logitech.Control Center.HID Driver (3.5.1 - SDK 10.0) Support
[not loaded] com.Logitech.Unifying.HID Driver (1.2.0 - SDK 10.0) Support
[not loaded] com.anchorfree.tun (1.1.1 - SDK 10.8) Support
[kext loaded] com.netralia.driver.VBMicDriver (1.0.0 - SDK 10.7) Support
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Late 2008 Macbook Pro - Spinning Beachball - Why?

Over the last few months I've noticed a rapid decline in the performance of my macbook pro. I've used it to produce music on it without issues so it should still be quite a capable machine. At first I thought it might be my new WD 750Gb scorpio black hard drive but I've since reverted back to my original factory hard drive and the problem is the same. I have been using CCC rather than doing a fresh install so I don't know whether doing a fresh install will help. When I first started out I have leopard - is Lion or Mountain Lion (which I currently run) more processor intensive? I get this spinning beachball often when I'm not doing anything particularly heavy on the cpu. When opening apps and sometimes they don't respond and when I click launchpad sometimes the icons are blank until it has time to visually update them. Ableton often takes up to 5 mins to open but its usually about a minute or so these days. I've reparied all permissions, verified hard drives, reset my PRAM & SMC and tried 2 different hard drives. The battery is on 'replace now' and I notice it may be swollen as sometimes it intereferes with my trackpad functioning (clicking). My 250GB hard drive has about 40gb free on it too as I tried deleting things to free it up. The decline of the battery may coincide with the decline in performance but I can't say for sure if they are related.
I know my laptop is old now but it was working prefectly not that long ago. Is there any kind of log or screenshot I could post to give you more information to help?
2.8Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo
4GB 1066 MHz DDR3 RAM -
NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 256 MB
OSX Mountain Lion 10.8.4
Thanks,
Pete

My 250GB hard drive has about 40gb free
Empty the trash in the Dock as well as iPhoto’s trash!
Open up your application folder & go through all your apps. Trash all the apps you no longer want and/or use.
An easier way to do this is to open the Application folder in list view & press the Command+j keys.
In the the dialog that appears, click the "This Window Only" button & the "Calculate All Sizes" check box.
Wait a bit until your file & folder sizes have all been calculated, then click the "Size" column to sort your apps from the fattest to the most anorexic.
Get rid of all your photo files you don't want and/or need. Same goes for those pics off the websites you downloaded (gifs, jpegs, etc.). Or transfer/move them all to a photo/movie storage site like ImageShack and Photobucket, 2 of the most popular FREE storage sites.
Get rid of all your video & music files you no longer view and/or listen too. Especially, if you already have the actual CD/DVDs or you can later redownload from a website. Or transfer them all to a FREE video/movies and/or music storage site.
Use Spotlight to make sure you got rid of everything. You can even trash directly from Spotlight! Better yet, download this FREE software called Find File. This app puts Spotlight to shame (works w/Mountain Lion).
Drag what you don't want and/or need to the trash. Better yet, download this neat little shareware app *demo* called AppZapper. It basically does all the work for you by not only trashing the apps but the apps preference files, caches & all its associated files.
Another software that does the above is AppDelete. Best of all this software is free!
Burn what you want and/or need onto CDs or DVDs. Not everyone has the luxury of purchasing an external HD and/or the system requirements for iCloud to store their "stuff.”
Dropbox is a free storage utility to check out.
You can check with your ISP to see if they offer *free* storage space. Most if not all do now-a-days. There are thousands if not millions of *free* storage facilities on the web also. Use your favorite search engine to search them out as they come in different storage sizes to fit your needs & wants.
Check for duplicate fonts.
Applications>Font Book
Select “All Fonts”
If you see any “black dots” next to any fonts this mean you have duplicates and/or multiple versions of these fonts.
To clean this up, select a “black dotted” font or the Apple + *click* to select multiple dotted fonts;
Edit>Resolve>Duplicates.
What the above does is turns off the duplicates & multiple version fonts. Not delete them.
More than likely the “extras” were installed by other programs and/or other users.
Clear out font caches
Use FontNuke. It does all the work for you. And, best of all it’s *FREE*.
Printer Drivers
Get rid of all the printer drivers you don’t need & use except the ones for your *current* printer(s)/scanner(s).
HD>Library>Printers Folder
If you accidently threw something out that you needed for your printer/scanner it can be easily obtained from the manufacturer’s website and/or from the CD that came w/the printer/scanner.
Garage Band
Has about 1GB of loops stored. Get rid of some some them. You surely don’t use, like and/or need them all.
HD>Library>Audio/Apple Loops>Apple>Apple Loops For GarageBand
Or just get rid of the Garage Band app altogether if you don’t use it.
Get rid of extra languages
Strip your computer down to your “native” tongue.
You can do this with a *FREE* utility called Monolingual. Another app that apparently does all the work for you. I’ve never used it. However, a lot of users here swear by & recommend it highly.
However, there is a warning for *native English speakers*. Make sure you keep BOTH English and English (United States).
Other Resources:
HD Space Checkers:
Disk Inventory X (FREE)
WhatSize (SHAREWARE)
OmniDiskSweeper (FREE)
GrandPerspective (FREE - donation)
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Mac Performance Guide
Slimming your hard drive
Rule of thumb: You should never let your hard drive get to where you have only 10-15% of space left.
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The battery is on 'replace now' and I notice it may be swollen as sometimes it intereferes with my trackpad functioning (clicking).
You should not be using your computer until the battery is replaced. If it is indeed swollen and/or leaking, it will cause serious internal damage.
Have you tried the following?
Mountain Lion Recovery
Boot up from your computer by holding down the command+r keys. This will take you to the recovery drive.
Select Disk Utility & hit Return.
In Disk Utility select the HD on the left & click on Repair Disk (bottom right).

Mountain Lion on mid-2009 MacBook Pro spinning beachball is becoming frequent

I have a mid 2009 MacBook Pro 2.53 GHZ 4 GB ram and more and more I am getting the spinning beachball. When verifying permissions it says Est time 1 minute for close to 5 minutes, My TM drive won't repair. The machine is just much slower. I have a new hard drive and I replaced the battery because it was giving me a battery error. Is this all the result of running Mountain Lion? I have had it for several months and it just seems to be getting worse.

Surprised there hasn't been anyone else experiencing this issue.
I have seen this on 2 new MBP 2.3mhz i5's with the Intel HD 3000 384mb graphics, Lion 10.7.3 & 10.7.4.
Also with the latest Lion firmware for the late 2011 MBP's that addresses compatibility and stability issues.
Hopefully there is a fix soon because the painting on my locked screen to login is getting annoying

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