Quick look hangs up with spinning beach ball

Quick look has been hanging up on me lately a lot, could be after 10.5.3 update. Is anyone else experiencing this?
Doesn't matter which file format or how big/small file.

I've run into the same problem, too.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

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  • Someone with two macs pls help with spinning beach ball

    Sometimes I download pictures to my MacBook from my camera and then transfer them to my main library on my G5 using photo sharing in iPhoto.
    If "look for shared photos" is enabled on the MacBook and "share my photos" is enabled on the G5, I get a long hang and a spinning beach-ball in when I launch iPhoto on the MacBook The hang seems subsequently affects the G5. They both hang for a good 15-30 seconds.
    While this is happening the Application Monitor shows a root process called "mds" using 99% of the MacBook CPU. Once the hang is over the mds process goes away. The G5 while still hanging simply shows iPhoto as not responding, no mds process.
    I've wiped the MacBook clean, set up new accounts. Nothing seems to fix it. The question is; am I alone? Can someone else go through the steps and get iPhoto to launch with iPhoto already running on another networked mac with photo sharing enabled and not get a spinning beach-ball.
    This was also a problem in iPhoto 06'. I was really hoping Apple got my feedback and fixed in 08' Maybe something is wrong with my MacBook.

    Hi.
    mds is the indexing process, usually run by Spotlight when looking for files, folders, servers, etc.
    that's the reason why you get the delay when seeking your images using the sharing function. Your mac is searching for the requested service (your photo sharing "server"...your other mac), and it cannot find it because of the firewall that's built in to the mac. Whether you're doing this via a wireless or an Ethernet connection, you'll need to assure that your firewalls on
    both computers are open to allow that type of sharing to take place.
    Take a look in your System Prefs, under the Sharing icon. Click on the "Firewall" button and, after authenticating with your password, scroll down and select the option for "iPhoto Bonjour Sharing". You'll need to do this on BOTH machines, as the port is used by each for communication.
    That should solve the problem..
    Cheers,
    Charlie

  • Help for slow clients with spinning beach balls.

    I work at a school where we have an xsvr 105-000 running 10.5
    We have about 100 eMacs running 10.4 that connect to it. They are clients running their desktops off of the server. Each student has their own account.
    We are having a continuing problem that no one seems to be able to solve. The computers slow to a crawl everyday. Students get spinning beach balls when they are clicking on sites, paging or scrolling up and down etc.
    If someone plugs in with a laptop that does not log into the server and surfs the web there are no problems. No delays.
    Here are my questions:
    1. Are there a maximum number of connections that an xserv server can handle. If we have 60 students logged in are we choking at at the server level?
    2. Is there some setting on the server that could be causing this? (I realize that I have provided no where near enough info for a specific here, but I am only a teacher.)
    3. Any other ideas?
    Thanks

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    Good question. I'm sure there will be others with opinions and experiences willing to share?
    In my experience/opinion once you get to around 60-100 users - depending hugely on usage etc - you really should be adding another server to help balance the load. Enabling lots of Services on one box and then connecting lots of clients is a 'classic' mistake to make. It does not end there. Ideally you should be providing gigabit to desktop. Ideally managed switches. You also have to look at what the rest of the network is doing. Important if your situation involves an educational environment. It might be advisable to put mac clients and server(s) on their own switch possibly?
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  • Finder periodically plagued with Spinning Beach Ball of Death

    SBBOD = Spinning Beach Ball of Death
    Could someone who understands MacOS X internals please explain to me why the finder needs to wait for an external Firewire drive to spin up to:
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    2. Quit an app via right clicking the dock icon of the app. (shows 'Application not Responding' until FW drive spins up then
    'quit' is the available choice)
    3. Get a running program to respond. (sbbod then app responds as usual when FW drive spins up)
    Let me set the scene. I do not have 'put drives to sleep' in energy saver. Spotlight is configured to ignore all of my external volumes. None of my apps use the external volumes for scratch or anything else. I rarely if ever directly save to an external volume from any application. I cannot change the behavior of the FW drive going into Stand-By mode (I've checked with Seagate and the feature is not changeable via firmware or dip-switch/jumper settings)
    My only thought is poor filesystem buffer cache management. Problem is even that doesn't make sense. If I haven't read from or written to the external drives there shouldn't be ANY in memory buffers associated with the now in stand-by state firewire drive.
    The SBBOD usually only takes 5-10 seconds to go away and Finder behavior to return to normal. I know it sounds 'petty' but it definitely is a flaw in what is supposed to be (and usually is) a very responsive GUI. I've experienced this annoying behavior with the standard Apple apps (Mail, Address Book, iCal, iTunes etc) and my 3rd party apps (Photoshop CS3, Excel, Word, Cisco VPN client. I'm thinking about writing a crontab entry to 'touch' the FW drive every few minutes to keep it spun up as a workaround.
    Running 10.6.1 and hoping Apple would have gotten it right with this release.

    AFAIK, the Seagate bare HDs don't have that limitation. At least the 750 GB SATA, ST3750640AS, one doesn't have the standby mode. Neither do any in that family. Spec sheet at http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=en-US&name=Barracuda7200.10_SATA_750.3GB&vgnextoid=138697c102ede010VgnVCM100000dd04090aRCRD&locale=en-GB

  • Problem with Spinning Beach Balls

    I am hoping someone can help me diagnose my issue and help me understand the log below. About every other month on my MBP I run into system slow down and spinning beach balls. I run disk utility and it tells me my disk is corrupted and needs to be repaired. I run Disk Warrior and the disk is repaired and problem goes away. For awhile. Only to return in a month or two. Getting tiring to have to keep doing this.
    I needed to repair it again this am. The log of Disk Warrior (copied below) seems to suggest something is wrong with a file called .Mobilebackups under the HD. When I search the HD I cannot find this file nor do I do any mobile backups of my phone. How can I permanently resolve this?
    Thanks in advance for any help.
    DiskWarrior has successfully built a new optimized directory for the disk named "Macintosh HD." The new directory is ready to replace the original directory.
    Notes:
    All file and folder data was easily located.
    Comparison of the original and replacement directories indicates that there will be changes to the number, the contents and/or the attributes of the files and folders. It is recommended that you preview the replacement directory and examine the items listed below. All files and folders were compared and a total of 21,365,288 comparison tests were performed.
    • Errors, if any, in the directory structure such as tree depth, header node, map nodes, node size, node counts, node links, indexes and more have been repaired.
    Disk: "Macintosh HD"
    Repaired the Available Disk Space of the Volume Information Location: "Desktop"
    Folder: "Documents"
    Repaired Custom Icon Flag
    Location: "Macintosh HD/.MobileBackups/Computer/2012-05-26-070154/Volume/Users/sadelman/"
    Folder: "Dropbox"
    Repaired Custom Icon Flag
    Location: "Macintosh HD/.MobileBackups/Computer/2012-05-26-070154/Volume/Users/sadelman/Desktop/"
    Folder: "Documents"
    Repaired Custom Icon Flag
    Location: "Macintosh HD/.MobileBackups/Computer/2012-05-27-075245/Volume/Users/sadelman/"
    Folder: "Dropbox"
    Repaired Custom Icon Flag
    Location: "Macintosh HD/.MobileBackups/Computer/2012-05-27-075245/Volume/Users/sadelman/Desktop/"
    Folder: "Camera Uploads"
    Repaired Custom Icon Flag
    Location: "Macintosh HD/.MobileBackups/Computer/2012-05-26-070154/Volume/Users/sadelman/Desktop/ Dropbox/"
    Folder: "Documents"
    Repaired Custom Icon Flag
    Location: "Macintosh HD/.MobileBackups/Computer/2012-05-28-080754/Volume/Users/sadelman/"
    Folder: "MAMP_MAMP_PRO_2.0.5.zip.download"
    Repaired Custom Icon Flag
    Location: "Macintosh HD/.MobileBackups/Computer/2012-05-27-075245/Volume/Users/sadelman/Downloads/"
    Folder: "Dropbox"
    Repaired Custom Icon Flag
    Location: "Macintosh HD/.MobileBackups/Computer/2012-05-29-063631/Volume/Users/sadelman/Desktop/"
    Folder: "Dropbox"
    Repaired Custom Icon Flag
    Location: "Macintosh HD/.MobileBackups/Computer/2012-05-29-080149/Volume/Users/sadelman/Desktop/"
    Folder: "Dropbox"
    Repaired Custom Icon Flag
    Location: "Macintosh HD/.MobileBackups/Computer/2012-05-29-163310/Volume/Users/sadelman/Desktop/"
    Folder: "Dropbox"
    Repaired Custom Icon Flag
    Location: "Macintosh HD/.MobileBackups/Computer/2012-05-28-080754/Volume/Users/sadelman/Desktop/"
    Folder: "Applications (Parallels)"
    Repaired Custom Icon Flag
    Location: "Macintosh HD/.MobileBackups/Computer/2012-05-29-205449/Volume/Users/sadelman/"
    Folder: "{f7566142-994b-4ed7-bfd2-aa2024ef5428} Applications.localized"
    Repaired Custom Icon Flag
    Location: "Macintosh HD/.MobileBackups/Computer/2012-05-29-205449/Volume/Users/sadelman/Applications (Parallels)/"
    Folder: "Documents"
    Repaired Custom Icon Flag
    Location: "Macintosh HD/.MobileBackups/Computer/2012-05-29-205449/Volume/Users/sadelman/"
    Folder: "Documents"
    Repaired Custom Icon Flag
    Location: "Macintosh HD/.MobileBackups/Computer/2012-05-29-213408/Volume/Users/sadelman/"
    Folder: "Applications (Parallels)"
    Repaired Custom Icon Flag
    Location: "Macintosh HD/.MobileBackups/Computer/2012-05-29-213408/Volume/Users/sadelman/"
    Folder: "{f7566142-994b-4ed7-bfd2-aa2024ef5428} Applications.localized"
    Repaired Custom Icon Flag
    Location: "Macintosh HD/.MobileBackups/Computer/2012-05-29-213408/Volume/Users/sadelman/Applications (Parallels)/"
    Folder: "Parallels"
    Repaired Custom Icon Flag
    Location: "Macintosh HD/.MobileBackups/Computer/2012-05-29-213408/Volume/Users/sadelman/Library/"
    Folder: "{f7566142-994b-4ed7-bfd2-aa2024ef5428} Applications Menu.localized"
    Repaired Custom Icon Flag
    Location: "Macintosh HD/.MobileBackups/Computer/2012-05-29-213408/Volume/Users/sadelman/Library/ Parallels/Applications Menus/"
    Folder: "Documents"
    Repaired Custom Icon Flag
    Location: "Macintosh HD/.MobileBackups/Computer/2012-05-29-221036/Volume/Users/sadelman/"
    Folder: "Dropbox"
    Repaired Custom Icon Flag
    Location: "Macintosh HD/.MobileBackups/Computer/2012-05-29-221036/Volume/Users/sadelman/Desktop/"
    Folder: "Applications (Parallels)"
    Repaired Custom Icon Flag
    Location: "Macintosh HD/.MobileBackups/Computer/2012-05-29-221036/Volume/Users/sadelman/"
    Folder: "{f7566142-994b-4ed7-bfd2-aa2024ef5428} Applications.localized"
    Repaired Custom Icon Flag
    Location: "Macintosh HD/.MobileBackups/Computer/2012-05-29-221036/Volume/Users/sadelman/Applications (Parallels)/"
    Folder: "Documents"
    Repaired Custom Icon Flag
    Location: "Macintosh HD/.MobileBackups/Computer/2012-05-30-062629/Volume/Users/sadelman/"
    Folder: "Documents"
    Repaired Custom Icon Flag
    Location: "Macintosh HD/.MobileBackups/Computer/2012-05-30-063217/Volume/Users/sadelman/"
    Folder: "Applications (Parallels)"
    Repaired Custom Icon Flag
    Location: "Macintosh HD/.MobileBackups/Computer/2012-05-30-063217/Volume/Users/sadelman/"
    Folder: "{f7566142-994b-4ed7-bfd2-aa2024ef5428} Applications.localized"
    Repaired Custom Icon Flag
    Location: "Macintosh HD/.MobileBackups/Computer/2012-05-30-063217/Volume/Users/sadelman/Applications (Parallels)/"
    Explanations:
    Custom Icon Flag: Every folder has a flag that indicates whether or not it has a custom icon. Repairs ensure that the icons of these folders will be properly displayed.
    Volume Information: Every disk has information that describes its contents. Repairs prevent problems such as wasted disk space and applications not functioning properly.
    Disk Information:
    Files: 769,328
    Folders: 192,999
    Free Space: 62.83 GB
    Format: Mac OS Extended (Journaled) Block Size: 4,096
    Disk Sectors: 623,463,232
    Media: TOSHIBA MK3255GSXF
    Time: 5/30/12 6:53:15 AM DiskWarrior Version: 4.2

    The file .MobileBackups indicates that you have Time Machine turned on but your Mac is not connected to the backup drive so it makes temporary copies for when you connect back to backup drive.
    These tempoary backups can eat up all of your free space which will slow down your Mac.
    How much free space do you have?
    You should consider either turning off Time Machine or connecting to the backup drive on a more frequent interval.
    Allan

  • Safari 8.0 hangs with spinning beach ball

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    Opening system prefs is fine...when I click on users/accounts, the spinning ball appears and eventually system prefs just closes itself down.
    I've also had a lot of ? Kernel panics....the grey see through screen slowly drops down, the multi language restart writing appears....I restart and it's just the same.
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    Mon Aug 29 15:08:42 2011
    panic(cpu 1 caller 0xffffff80002b3126): trying to interlock destroyed mutex (0xffffff80121d52c0)
    Backtrace (CPU 1), Frame : Return Address
    0xffffff808f46bd20 : 0xffffff8000220702
    0xffffff808f46bda0 : 0xffffff80002b3126
    0xffffff808f46bdb0 : 0xffffff7f818f12cc
    0xffffff808f46bdd0 : 0xffffff7f818ef2db
    0xffffff808f46be10 : 0xffffff800053a487
    0xffffff808f46be50 : 0xffffff800057d5b2
    0xffffff808f46bf10 : 0xffffff8000585ab8
    0xffffff808f46bf60 : 0xffffff80005ca258
    0xffffff808f46bfb0 : 0xffffff80002d7f59
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             com.kaspersky.kext.klif(2.1d5)[458E888B-C722-9BC1-926C-4B96147C29FA]@0xffffff7f 818ed000->0xffffff7f81913fff
    BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kav
    Mac OS version:
    11B26
    Kernel version:
    Darwin Kernel Version 11.1.0: Tue Jul 26 16:07:11 PDT 2011; root:xnu-1699.22.81~1/RELEASE_X86_64
    Kernel UUID: D52AAB80-B2BC-3C6E-BBEA-78BD28064998
    System model name: iMac10,1 (Mac-F2268CC8)
    System uptime in nanoseconds: 121502919764
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    Good luck!!!
    Nicki

  • MS Word refuses to launch/spinning beach ball

    I'm on a flat-panel iMac G4, using Microsoft Office X, which I havent had many problems with until recently, when my Mac started getting sluggish in general (usually fixed by a reboot). But now Word refuses to launch; it gets hung up at the logo screen, with spinning beach ball, and never gets to the actual program. Prior to this "death," Word would get hung up when I would go to Save a new doc.
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    Welcome to Apple discussions!!
    Along with the other replies you've received, if your space & ram are okay
    but you still have an issue w/ Word, this maybe related.
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    Microsoft Office v. X for Mac Security Update (2006-08-08)
    which requires this update below, first:
    or Microsoft Office v. X for Mac 10.1.7 Security Update released July 11, 2006
    System requirements for Microsoft Office v. X for Mac 10.1.7 Security Update released July 11, 2006
    "To install this update, your computer must meet the following minimum requirements:
    Processor: Mac OS X-compatible processor that is a model G3 or a later model
    Operating system: Mac OS X 10.1 or a later version of Mac OS
    Memory: 128 MB of RAM " from mactopia
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    Hth, good luck.
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  • Spinning beach balls out of control-bad RAM?

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