Rainbow pinwheel and slow

Hello, I've been putting up with this for awhile now (3 months or so) I have a macbook pro, and my hard drive failed the first time, so I replaced it and formatted it, everything was fine. I've been dealing with the rainbow pinwheel and lag for awhile now and I'm sick of it, when opening a webpage it takes like 30-45 seconds, and when I play Diablo 3 and WOW I have about 5 minutes of game time, then it freezes, and then resumes. This is fairly annoying, any information would be very appreciated! Thanks so much all

Hi, thanks for the answers, I am running on wireless, and it still does it on wired. I did do all the updates also.
Model Name:          MacBook Pro
Model Identifier:          MacBookPro5,4
Processor Name:          Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed:          2.53 GHz
Number of Processors:          1
Total Number of Cores:          2
L2 Cache:          3 MB
Memory:          4 GB
It was even doing this when I was on OS Snow Lepeord, not just lion, I was thinking I needed to upgrade RAM
but I wasn't sure

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os version?
application that you're using to watch the video?
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Suddenly never ending pinwheel and slower than usual

My macbook pro suddenly started to get slow and gave me a never ending pinwheel while only having Safari running. The mouse was working but no response when clicking. Only way to restart computer was by holding down the Start button. Restarted and this time the computer hang up when I tried to Log in (while writing Login and password). I mangaged to Log in two more times but I got the pinwheel again when browsing internet. Finally I managed to make it to Support/Community.. any idea what's wrong?
Thanks in advance (: !

Print out these instructions and info at the links provided as most require you to be offline.
Do a SMC and PRAM reset first, then a Hardware Test
https://support.apple.com/kb/ht3964
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.6/en/26871.html
https://support.apple.com/kb/ht1509
If the hardware test gives any errors, note them here.
Check the time and date on your computer to make sure it's correct.
If your still having slowdowns, pull the power plug on both the router and the modem, connect the modem and wait a bit then connect the router. Reboot your computer and it should connect automatically to your wifi. See if your slowdowns only occur if connecteted to the WiFI or not, that way it can be determined if it's a internet issue or not.
(If your still having slowdowns, it might be because you have a Open Network on your router and someone is leaching off of it. WPA 2 with AES is the only secure wifi standard))
You can test your internet connection speed here, see if it matches what your paying for.
http://www.speedtest.net/
IF your computer still has issues then:
Fish out the 10.6.x disks that came with your computer (grey) or the 10.6.3 Snow Leopard retail disk, stick it in the computer and reboot holding the c key.
(Make sure the disks are clean on the bottom, wipe with a very soft cloth and a tiny bit of rubbing alcohol to clean and don't place the disk on a harsh surface that can damage the bottom.)
Second screen in, under the Utilities menu is Disk Utility, select your drive on the left and click First Aid, Repair Disk (please write down any errors this gives and tell us) and Repair Permissions (the results there you can ignore)
Do not erase or reformat the drive.
Reboot and see if your computer works, if not repeat the c boot off the installer disk again and this time skip Disk Utility and install OS X.
It will install on top of your 10.6.8 installed version (only, not your programs or files), which when finished you reboot and immediately Software Update to 10.6.8
This should take care of anything wrong with OS X itself.
Now to clean the caches of the user and other checks.
Download the free OnyX for 10.6 and run ALL the maintenance and cleaning aspects and reboot at the end of the tasks (you can cancel in between reboots) but reboot at the end of using Onyx)
Do all the checks it asks when it starts up and note any errors here they report.
Also under the Verify Tab is a Preference (plist) check, check the "show only corrupt files" and run that, make a note of all and any corrupt plist files.
http://www.titanium.free.fr/
Plist files are preference settings files that sometimes get corrupted and may be the cause of your problems.
If you have some, then you can look in your Users/Library/Preferences folder for them and Trash them and reboot the machine and load the program responsible, the plist file gets rebuilt without your preferences which you reset.
The next thing to check would be your web browser plug-ins here
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/plugincheck/
For Flash in Safari check here again as it's more accurate
http://flashbuilder.eu/flash-player-version.html
Download Flash and install if it's not this version (latest)
http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
Silverlight here
https://www.microsoft.com/getsilverlight/get-started/install/default.aspx
Finally install and run ClamXAv on your drive, this will look for known malware that might have gotten accidentally installed.
http://www.clamxav.com/
Since OS X was reinstalled, along with bundled programs like Safari, this should only leave applications and users as a source of any infection.
If your stil having issues, then create a new user and transfer your files over and when up on the new user, delete it.

When I type in my password into the login screen I get the rainbow pinwheel and then the screen turns gray and goes back to account selection... How do I access my account?

Today I was doing my chemistry homework when all of a sudden my mid 2011 MacBook pro running Lion 10.7.4 started going very very VERY slowly to a point where it was unusable. I restarted my computer and went to type in my password. When I did this, the computer recognized the password and began to boot yet the pinwheel came on and the screen turned gray and went back to the account selection screen. It continues to do this everytime I enter my password and I can no longer access my account. How do I fix this.

You can take some of the steps here, #4, #5 or even trying a #18
Step by Step to fix your Mac
but I suspect your going to first have to create a data recovery drive
Create a data recovery, undelete boot drive
to get your data off the machine,
then do a #20 to eliminate the bad sectors as that's why your getting the "pinwheel" it's getting a delay reading from the drive, right when your trying to log in too, what a bad spot for it to happen.
Step by Step to fix your Mac

My Safari isn't responding and I keep getting the rainbow pinwheel. Why is this happening?

I'll open Safari and go to my usual pages, however now when I open it and it's trying to load my homepage, it doesn't really load and then I get the rainbow pinwheel and it just does that until I get fed up and try to close the window. I have tried quitting Safrai in an attempt to kind of re-boot it, but that doesn't do much and instead I have to force quit because the application isn't responding. I have chrome now and this seems to be working perfectly fine, however I like how my Safrai is setup and I don't want to waste time customizing any new browsers.
Also, I have gone through and eliminated cookies and tried to cleam up my safrai but that didn't really do anything.
Any suggestions?

Quit the application. Force quit if necessary.
Relaunch it by holding down the shift key and clicking its icon in the Dock. From the menu bar, select
Safari ▹ Preferences... ▹ Privacy ▹ Remove All Website Data

NEW macbook pro running slow ~ i hate the rainbow pinwheel

i have a two-week old MacBook Pro.
it has been running slow ever since I got it.
the apple genius bar guy pulled up my activity monitor and said it was normal.
how can a constant rainbow pinwheel be normal???
because i use it for business, i had to download Outlook and now i can barely get anything to run without the stupid rainbow pinwheel.
it has 4GB or memory. do I need to add another 4GB or is there something else I can do?
i can't believe how this "powerful machine" feels like i'm trudging in the mud.
thanks for your help.

Ok, so I'm pretty new to this and want to make sure I answer each of your questions.
Right now, my computer is behaving (of course)... so I might need to do this again when I've got a pinwheel or beach ball or whatever they call that spinning rainbow torture device. So, the numbers below reflect my computer without the pinwheel (probably not helpful for troubleshooting)....
What is it, and what is the process? ~ Outlook 20.6%
Also post the values for % User, 4.89%
% System, and 8.13%
% Idle at the bottom of the window. 85.03%
What values are shown in the bottom part of the window for Page outs ~ 443.7
and Swap used? 183.7
kernel.log
Feb 22 21:07:21 Stacys-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: The USB device Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad (Port 2 of Hub at 0xfa100000) may have caused a wake by issuing a remote wakeup (3)
Feb 22 21:07:21 Stacys-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: HID tickle 176 ms
Feb 22 21:07:23 Stacys-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: Sound assertion "0 == fAudioEngineArray" failed in AppleHDADriver at line 3047 goto Exit
Feb 22 21:07:27 Stacys-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: MacAuthEvent en1 Auth result for: c0:c1:c0:23:ed:6a MAC AUTH succeeded
Feb 22 21:07:27 Stacys-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: wlEvent: en1 en1 Link UP
Feb 22 21:07:27 Stacys-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: AirPort: Link Up on en1
Feb 22 21:07:27 Stacys-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: en1: BSSID changed to c0:c1:c0:23:ed:6a
Feb 22 21:28:09 Stacys-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: IOSurface: buffer allocation size is zero
Feb 22 21:29:45 Stacys-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: (default pager): [KERNEL]: ps_select_segment - send HI_WAT_ALERT
Feb 22 21:29:45 Stacys-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: macx_swapon SUCCESS
Feb 22 21:29:54 Stacys-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: (default pager): [KERNEL]: ps_select_segment - send HI_WAT_ALERT
Feb 22 21:29:55 Stacys-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: macx_swapon SUCCESS
Feb 22 21:30:30 Stacys-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: (default pager): [KERNEL]: default_pager_backing_store_monitor - send LO_WAT_ALERT
Feb 22 21:30:33 Stacys-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: macx_swapoff SUCCESS
Feb 22 21:34:16 Stacys-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: MacAuthEvent en1 Auth result for: c0:c1:c0:23:ed:6a MAC AUTH succeeded
Feb 22 21:34:16 Stacys-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: wlEvent: en1 en1 Link UP
Feb 22 21:34:16 Stacys-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: en1: BSSID changed to c0:c1:c0:23:ed:6a
I have no CLUE what I just posted and hope it was what you were asking for. I truly appreciate your help. Thank you so very much.

PINWHEEL! Keeps popping up and slowing for no reason...

Anytime I am in safari or mail, the progress indicator will pop up for no reason and slow the show down for no reason! I have office installed, but never really use it, and only usually run safari, mail and itunes all at once.
I ran disk utility and came up with nada. Rebooted after removing the battery and holding down "C"...
Any ideas?

If the network is involved with the pinwheel, I generally find that it is a broken DNS server. While I prefer using the DNS servers from my ISP, if I experience problems, I generally give the OpenDNS server a try:
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220
As an experiment, try entering these DNS server addresses in your Network System Preferences. If they do not work, you can always remove them and go back to the settings the way they were when you started.
NOTE: The first DNS server address is the most important, as name lookups will always wait for the first server to timeout before trying the 2nd server, so you want a reliable first server.

My G4 (OS 10.5.8) is gradually going slower (getting a lot of rainbow balls) and finally freezes.

My G4 (OS 10.5.8) keeps going slower and slower after boot-up and eventually start getting beach balls after every action, even scrolling until it finally freezes. The CPU is constantly grinding.

Very Important, how much Free Space is on your Hard Drive first of all? Click on the Macintosh HD on the Desktop, then do a Get Info on it.
At the Apple Icon at top left>About this Mac.
Then click on More Info>Hardware and report this upto *but not including the Serial#*...
Hardware Overview:
Machine Name: Power Mac G5 Quad
Machine Model: PowerMac11,2
CPU Type: PowerPC G5 (1.1)
Number Of CPUs: 4
CPU Speed: 2.5 GHz
L2 Cache (per CPU): 1 MB
Memory: 10 GB
Bus Speed: 1.25 GHz
Boot ROM Version: 5.2.7f1
Open Activity Monitor in Applications>Utilities, select All Processes & sort on CPU%, any indications there?
How much RAM & free space do you have also, click on the Memory & Disk Usage Tabs.
In the Memory tab, are there a lot of Pageouts?

2012 13" MacBook Pro constant rainbow wheel and heating after upgrade to Yosemite. Link Davis can you please have a look?

Hey guys, I've been trying to save my mac from this constant lag for the past few days to no avail. I've been reading the forums and trying to figure this out myself but I haven't been able to reach a solution so here I am. I've done a clean reinstall. I've run disk permissions and repaired the disk. I've reset PRAM. I don't have FileVault running. I am constantly getting rainbow wheel, even as I'm typing this question out. Applications freeze in their own windows, for example, Chrome will freeze but I will still be able to move over to another application like safari and use safari. It's practically impossible to run any kind media because it stutters constantly. Any and all help is welcome, thanks in advance.
Problem description:
Mid 2012 13” Macbook Pro slowed to a crawl after update to Yosemite. I currently have 10.10.1 running. I have tried a clean install, I’ve resetted PRAM, I’ve run disk permission verification and repair. None have helped. I constantly get rainbow wheel and all sorts of media stutters.
Below are my EtreCheck results. Any and all help is welcome, thanks in advance guys.
EtreCheck version: 2.1.5 (108)
Report generated December 19, 2014 at 3:38:07 PM GMT+2
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Hardware Information: ℹ️
MacBook Pro Intel Core i7, 15" (Mid 2012)
MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro9,2
1 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 2-core
4 GB RAM Upgradeable
BANK 0/DIMM0
2 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok
BANK 1/DIMM0
2 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok
Bluetooth: Good - Handoff/Airdrop2 supported
Wireless: en1: 802.11 a/b/g/n
Video Information: ℹ️
Intel HD Graphics 4000
Color LCD 1280 x 800
System Software: ℹ️
OS X 10.10.1 (14B25) - Uptime: 0:21:9
Disk Information: ℹ️
APPLE HDD TOSHIBA MK5065GSXF disk0 : (500.11 GB)
EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB
Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted> [Recovery]: 650 MB
SamiEfes HD (disk1) / : 498.88 GB (402.53 GB free)
Core Storage: disk0s2 499.25 GB Online
MATSHITADVD-R   UJ-8A8
USB Information: ℹ️
Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)
Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub
Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
Thunderbolt Information: ℹ️
Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus
Gatekeeper: ℹ️
Mac App Store and identified developers
Launch Daemons: ℹ️
[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist [Support]
User Launch Agents: ℹ️
[loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist [Support]
User Login Items: ℹ️
None
Internet Plug-ins: ℹ️
FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 16.0.0.235 - SDK 10.6 [Support]
Flash Player: Version: 16.0.0.235 - SDK 10.6 [Support]
QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3
Default Browser: Version: 600 - SDK 10.10
3rd Party Preference Panes: ℹ️
Flash Player [Support]
Time Machine: ℹ️
Auto backup: YES
Volumes being backed up:
SamiEfes HD: Disk size: 498.88 GB Disk used: 96.35 GB
Destinations:
BACKUP [Local]
Total size: 500.10 GB
Total number of backups: 8
Oldest backup: 2014-12-17 03:32:23 +0000
Last backup: 2014-12-18 23:14:04 +0000
Size of backup disk: Adequate
Backup size 500.10 GB > (Disk used 96.35 GB X 3)
Top Processes by CPU: ℹ️
      4% Google Chrome
      2% WindowServer
      0% AppleSpell
      0% opendirectoryd
Top Processes by Memory: ℹ️
309 MB Google Chrome Helper
172 MB spindump
163 MB Google Chrome
52 MB mds_stores
52 MB WindowServer
Virtual Memory Information: ℹ️
1.19 GB Free RAM
1.80 GB Active RAM
605 MB Inactive RAM
698 MB Wired RAM
1.20 GB Page-ins
0 B Page-outs
Diagnostics Information: ℹ️
Dec 19, 2014, 03:18:52 PM Self test - passed
MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)
It's been a few days since my last post, i've tried uninstalling chrome and adobe flash but my mac is the same. My problems have actually grown. Now my mac is heating up even when the lid is down and the computer is sleeping. The battery has also begun to drain very quickly. Any suggestions? solutions? Below is my current etrecheck result, the one above was when this first started.
EtreCheck version: 2.1.5 (108)
Report generated December 21, 2014 at 10:19:28 PM GMT+2
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Hardware Information: ℹ️
MacBook Pro Intel Core i7, 15" (Mid 2012)
MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro9,2
1 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 2-core
4 GB RAM Upgradeable
BANK 0/DIMM0
2 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok
BANK 1/DIMM0
2 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok
Bluetooth: Good - Handoff/Airdrop2 supported
Wireless: en1: 802.11 a/b/g/n
Video Information: ℹ️
Intel HD Graphics 4000
Color LCD 1280 x 800
System Software: ℹ️
OS X 10.10.1 (14B25) - Uptime: 0:31:36
Disk Information: ℹ️
APPLE HDD TOSHIBA MK5065GSXF disk0 : (500.11 GB)
EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB
Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted> [Recovery]: 650 MB
SamiEfes HD (disk1) / : 498.88 GB (422.36 GB free)
Core Storage: disk0s2 499.25 GB Online
MATSHITADVD-R   UJ-8A8
USB Information: ℹ️
Apple Inc. iPhone
Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub
Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)
Thunderbolt Information: ℹ️
Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus
Gatekeeper: ℹ️
Mac App Store and identified developers
User Launch Agents: ℹ️
[loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist [Support]
User Login Items: ℹ️
None
Internet Plug-ins: ℹ️
Default Browser: Version: 600 - SDK 10.10
QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3
3rd Party Preference Panes: ℹ️
None
Time Machine: ℹ️
Auto backup: YES
Volumes being backed up:
SamiEfes HD: Disk size: 498.88 GB Disk used: 76.52 GB
Destinations:
BACKUP [Local]
Total size: 500.10 GB
Total number of backups: 6
Oldest backup: 2014-12-17 03:32:23 +0000
Last backup: 2014-12-19 21:11:44 +0000
Size of backup disk: Adequate
Backup size 500.10 GB > (Disk used 76.52 GB X 3)
Top Processes by CPU: ℹ️
      4% WindowServer
      0% helpd
      0% AppleSpell
      0% launchd
      0% coreduetd
Top Processes by Memory: ℹ️
295 MB com.apple.WebKit.WebContent
159 MB Safari
73 MB mds_stores
60 MB WindowServer
43 MB com.apple.WebKit.Networking
Virtual Memory Information: ℹ️
1.49 GB Free RAM
1.80 GB Active RAM
343 MB Inactive RAM
664 MB Wired RAM
812 MB Page-ins
0 B Page-outs
Diagnostics Information: ℹ️
Dec 21, 2014, 09:48:26 PM Self test - passed
Dec 20, 2014, 01:03:45 AM /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/Kernel_2014-12-20-010345_[redacted].panic [Details]

This is what I got when I ran Linc's code on terminal:
Start time: 09:30:23 12/25/14
Model Identifier: MacBookPro9,2
System Version: OS X 10.10.1 (14B25)
Kernel Version: Darwin 14.0.0
Time since boot: 30 minutes
Diagnostic reports
   2014-12-17 mds_stores crash x2
   2014-12-20 Kernel panic
   2014-12-23 fontd crash x7
Shutdowns
   Dec 20 15:30:57 cause: -60
   Dec 21 21:51:06 cause: -60
   Dec 22 15:00:42 cause: -60
   Dec 22 21:28:26 cause: -60
   Dec 23 01:14:12 cause: -60
   Dec 23 13:20:50 cause: -60
   Dec 23 13:34:25 cause: -60
Log
   Dec 23 16:21:35 process WindowServer[129] caught causing excessive wakeups. EXC_RESOURCE supressed due to audio playback
   Dec 23 18:27:25 PM notification timeout (pid 67, loginwindow)
   Dec 23 18:27:25 PM notification timeout (pid 67, loginwindow)
   Dec 23 18:27:25 PM notification timeout (pid 67, loginwindow)
   Dec 23 20:21:37 pci pause: SDXC
   Dec 23 21:43:38 PM notification timeout (pid 42, coreduetd)
   Dec 23 23:32:25 pci pause: SDXC
   Dec 23 23:48:42 pci pause: SDXC
   Dec 23 23:51:27 SerialATAPI device reconfiguration did not complete successfully. (failedCommandInfo = 0x1)
   Dec 24 00:01:15 com.apple.xpc.launchd.domain.pid.BKAgentService.633: Path not allowed in target domain: type = pid, path = /Library/Frameworks/iTunesLibrary.framework/Versions/A/XPCServices/com.apple.iT unesLibraryService.xpc error = 147: The specified service did not ship in the requestor's bundle, origin = /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/BookKit.framework/Versions/A/XPCServices/com. apple.BKAgentService.xpc
   Dec 24 00:01:15 com.apple.xpc.launchd.domain.pid.BKAgentService.633: Path not allowed in target domain: type = pid, path = /Library/Frameworks/iTunesLibrary.framework/Versions/A/XPCServices/com.apple.iT unesLibraryService.xpc error = 147: The specified service did not ship in the requestor's bundle, origin = /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/BookKit.framework/Versions/A/XPCServices/com. apple.BKAgentService.xpc
   Dec 24 00:01:44 com.apple.xpc.launchd.domain.pid.MediaLibraryService.642: Path not allowed in target domain: type = pid, path = /Library/Frameworks/iTunesLibrary.framework/Versions/A/XPCServices/com.apple.iT unesLibraryService.xpc error = 147: The specified service did not ship in the requestor's bundle, origin = /System/Library/Frameworks/MediaLibrary.framework/Versions/A/XPCServices/com.ap ple.MediaLibraryService.xpc
   Dec 24 00:01:44 com.apple.xpc.launchd.domain.pid.MediaLibraryService.642: Path not allowed in target domain: type = pid, path = /Library/Frameworks/iTunesLibrary.framework/Versions/A/XPCServices/com.apple.iT unesLibraryService.xpc error = 147: The specified service did not ship in the requestor's bundle, origin = /System/Library/Frameworks/MediaLibrary.framework/Versions/A/XPCServices/com.ap ple.MediaLibraryService.xpc
   Dec 24 01:27:21 PM notification timeout (pid 27, powerd)
   Dec 24 01:29:24 pci pause: SDXC
   Dec 24 18:23:40 process com.apple.WebKit[285] caught causing excessive wakeups. Observed wakeups rate (per sec): 258; Maximum permitted wakeups rate (per sec): 150; Observation period: 300 seconds; Task lifetime number of wakeups: 229247
   Dec 24 18:48:20 wl0: Beacon Loss Event, last RSSI[-77]
   Dec 24 19:00:24 PM notification timeout (pid 67, loginwindow)
   Dec 24 19:00:24 PM notification timeout (pid 67, loginwindow)
   Dec 24 19:00:24 PM notification timeout (pid 67, loginwindow)
   Dec 24 19:54:42 pci pause: SDXC
   Dec 24 23:25:25 PM notification timeout (pid 27, powerd)
   Dec 25 02:29:44 pci pause: SDXC
   Dec 25 03:01:45 PM notification timeout (pid 152, VDCAssistant)
   Dec 25 03:02:15 PM notification timeout (pid 27, powerd)
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   /Users/USER/Library/Address Book Plug-Ins/SkypeABDialer.bundle
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   /Users/USER/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/WidevineCDM/1.4.6.703/_platform_specific/mac_x64/libwidev inecdm.dylib
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    <string>/dev/null</string>
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    <string>/dev/null</string>
   </dict>
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Have new iMac osx 2.5 intel and a few times now when in mail it starts to lag, rainbow spins and things go awry. Have to shut down and reboot to get it back to normal. Also a sender rang to say his email to me had been opened 140 times.....whats that???!!

Have new imac 2.5 mid 2011 OS X and macmail has a few times started to lag.....slow to accept writing and the rainbow spins and seems to stop it. have to shut down to get it back to normal. Very frustrating when in the middle of a message. Any ideas whats wrong ....whats happening...how to fix...Also a sender rang me to see if I forwarded their email on, and said that particular email had been opened 140 times.......I did not send on....any ideas about that one also.
Cheers Rhonda

Rhonda you Force Quit and app by click the Apple symbol in the upper left and selecting Force Quit... and then select the app that isn't responding and Force Quit it.
I'm not sure what is wrong with your Mail system but I'd recommend starting over with it. You can find out how in Mail Setup, Troubleshooting etc... If you still have trouble then contact AppleCare, you have 90 days of free phone service with AppleCare......why not use it?

Safari pinwheels and freezes the entire system.

Safari pinwheels and freezes the entire system.
I've read numerous threads with this Safari pinwheeling theme, but none of the posted solutions I've found work for me.
The problem:
Safari will almost always on opening, and frequently when filling in forms on websites, start pinwheeling. The whole system then slows down, and then eventually freezes. Even the dock bar freezes. When this happens, I can't even bring up the Force Quit bar. The freezing will often last several minutes, then all of a sudden, all my various previously ignored mouse and key clicks cycle through. When Force Quit finally starts, then everything freezes again. Eventually, Force Quit will show Safari as not responding, and once in a while the system then will start responding, but usually I have to kill Safari.
The problem subsided a little bit on the opening the application problem when I switched my start page from Apple.com to Google.com, thinking that maybe it was just too much graphics crap coming in on the Apple site.
The problem happens on both my Airport and cell modem network connections.
I may have seen this behavior once with Firefox, but haven't been able to reproduce it.
Generally I only have a few things running: Excel, Messenger, Safari.
Things I've tried to fix this:
Reset Safari
Clear Safari Cache
Delete Safari folder in the system cache folder
Went into the Energy Saver in Preferences and unchecked, "put disk to sleep when not in use" for both the battery and power adpater settings
Limit number of tabs open
I'd try restarting Safari occasionally, but the problem usually happens on opening.
I've emptied the trash, and made sure there is ample open disk space (10gb right now).
Resolved duplicate fonts.
I have no third party apps to affect Safari or networking.
I've reset the machine by unplugging it and holding the power button.
My computer is a MacBookPro 15" with all the latest software and firmware updates and 2gb RAM. This has become so frustrating, it's been very tempting to just throw the laptop at the wall and go back to my Windows laptop...

I'd say the bad blocks were behind the problems you were seeing. Their existence points to either a defective HD, or directory corruption. The latter usually can be repaired by using a Utility such as Disk Warrior, or as you did, reformatting the drive.
Best approach to minimizing directory problems is to do routine maintenance twice a month. Have a look at this MacWorld article for suggestions.
For routine maintenance I use OnyX. There is no charge for the software, but I believe the developer asks for a donation.
It's very easy to use. I run it twice a month. Once it is installed, you would double click on the OnyX icon in your application folder (or drag an icon to your dock for quick access) to open the application. After entering your administrator password, you would select "automation". The panel looks like this:
Select the same items I have checked. The program takes about 5 to 10 minutes to run. Leave your computer alone, that is, don't use it for anything else until OnyX is finished. Once complete, restart the computer and you're good to go.
Lastly, the most effective maintenance is having a full backup of your system on an external hard drive. All machines fail eventually, despite the best maintenance. If you had a hard drive failure without any backup, then you would lose all your information, including documents, images, songs, etc. Not a pretty picture.
For your system, you would purchase either a USB or Firewire Drive for your new Intel Machine. The key here is creating a "clone" backup on the drive, which you back up regularly, or at least once a week. For the backup process I use SuperDuper. Very easy to use. The initial backup takes about 1 to 2 hours. Subsequent backups take 5 to 10 minutes. Total $$$ investment can be anywhere between $100 - $250 depending on the size of your Hard Drive.
Post back if you need any other information relative to your questions here.

Wheel of doom spinning before I can log into the pro. Never happened before. The wheel spun a lot when i was using it yesterday and slowed down usage

wheel of doom spinning before I can log into the pro. So signing in was a panic attack in itself.
Never happened before.
The wheel has started to show up spun a lot when i was using it yesterday and slowed down general usage.
what is happening to the mac and what can I do to bring it back to life (before the rainbow wheel of doom)

If this has started happening suddenly without your having made any changes to your configuration, the it's likely that the boot drive is failing, or that there's some other hardware fault. Back up all data immediately, then run the Apple Hardware Test.
Intel-based Macs: Using Apple Hardware Test
Even if the test is negative, you should make a "Genius" appointment at an Apple Store to have the machine tested more thoroughly.

2007 Intel MacBook Pro Pinwheels and Loss of Sound

Hello all,
So, about three weeks my 15" 2007-model Intel MacBook Pro running Snow Leopard began acting very strangely. All at once, after my computer had been on for most of the day, the toolbar item processes like Airport, Sound, Time Machine, etc. all began to display rainbow pinwheels of doom, with about a 10-second return to normality every ten minutes or so. This caused computer actions like playing sound, connecting to internet, opening force-quit, changing volume, etc. to only occur (and all at once) within that 10-second window. Other processes like Safari ran smoothly but very slowly--tabs would reset themselves, Flash refused to load, pages did not change for tens of seconds. Looking at my activity monitor, I could see that my CPUs were mostly idle, so I think that rules out some kind of malware coming in and gumming up the system. I tried restarting Finder, and then restarting the computer, but neither had any effect, and I also noticed that while shutting down, my computer would display the gray startup screen and a gray loading pinwheel for several minutes between leaving the desktop and powering off.
However, this behavior went away after that night, and so I dismissed it as a minor problem and thought no more of it. In the intervening three weeks (about a week-and-a-half ago), I upgraded my machine to Lion so that I could start an iOS coding project for work--as I upgraded, I also got rid of a Boot Camp Windows partition I'd been carrying around and didn't need anymore.
For the first two weeks, everything went fine, and there were no problems with Lion. However, this pinwheeling/slowdown problem has returned with a vengeance! The same symptoms have appeared, except they are becoming less and less intermittent/more persistent.
I have also been able to verify that my software is completely up to date, and that restarts have no effect on this new appearance of my issue. It seems to come and go as it pleases.
Does anyone have any idea what's going on or how to fix it?

the toolbar item processes like Airport, Sound, Time Machine, etc. all began to display rainbow pinwheels of doom,
For the toolbar issue... it's actually referreed to as the menu bar.
Open the Finder. From the Finder menu bar click Go > Go to Folder
Type this exactly as you see it here:
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systemuiserver.plist
Clicik Go
Move the com.apple.systemuiserver.plist file to the Trash.
Restart your Mac.
If that didn't help, use Lion Recovery to repair the startup disk if necessary, or reinstall the Mac OS X.

Pinwheel and popups on Mac.

My Mac is a few years old and now slow on internet, constant pinwheel and popups.
How do I improve performance and get rid of problems??

Anti virus software installed ???
How much free space on the startup disk?
When you post for help, please state which OS X is installed.
Click the Apple () menu top left in your screen. From the drop down menu click About This Mac.
The version is noted there.

Problem with unstable and slow SWFs

Good evening,
Some of my users are reporting problems with the SWF output of my intensive Captive file which includes significant software simulation. I knew that these files were going to be resource intensive due to the nature of the project, but I felt comfortable with system requirements of at least 2 gb RAM and a mid-range processor.
Unfortunately, some of my users who meet this criteria are reporting problems including text animations not playing in full and slow slide transitions. I cannot replicate this problem on any of my machines.
I have been playing around trying to compress images as much as possible and otherwise reduce file size. What else can be done? What are the top five things I can do to remedy this problem?
My presentation is about 50 slides and the SWF output is about 4.5 mb.
Thanks

I've seen this type of thing many times, especially in corporate environments.
My top suggestions:
If you've taken all reasonable steps to make your project as web-friendly as possible by this time, don't make any more changes to your project until you've exhausted the possibilities below. It is most likely NOT your project that is at fault.
Find out more details from the users that are complaining. If at all possible, actually go and sit with them to watch the behaviour they're talking about. Don't believe everything you hear.
Check that users are on the correct version of Flash Player. For example, Flash Player 10 can play significantly better than Flash 9.
Ask the user to check defragmentation on their PC. Most users DON'T know how to do this and never defragment. As a result, I have seen PCs in corporate IT environments that had not been defragmented in years. Their hard drive showed up mostly red when the fragmentation analysis was done. This lack of PC housekeeping can contribute to many issues, especially with Flash or multimedia playback. Ask the user to defragment 2 or 3 times to be on the safe side.
Watch the CPU on Task Manager while the PC is playing the Captivate presentation. The performance monitor should tell you if the CPU is struggling and unable to decode the content fast enough.
Try to have another user log onto the same machine using a different profile and see if they experience the same issues. This can tell you whether the issue is due to a corrupted user profile. Conversely, have the same user log onto a different machine, creating a new profile for themselves on that PC to see if they experience the same issue. If it seems to be their profile at fault, they may need to get some IT dude to blow away their profile and set it up afresh.
Check whether or not the issue could be due to server latency. This is especially the case where LMSs are involved. Users will often experience latency issues such as slow transitions from one quiz slide to the next because the course module has to wait for the LMS to respond before it can move forward. If this is occurring for a significant number of users, you can try using the optional SCORM template that only sends tracking data at the end of the module instead of all the way through.
In my experience, if 95% of your user base is playing the content without issue, you don't need to change anything. Chances are that whatever is going wrong for the few that are complaining about poor playback wouldn't necessarily improve no matter what you did to your project. In the vast majority of cases, you need to isolate what exactly is causing the issue for these users and correct it ON THEIR END.
Rod Ward
www.infosemantics.com.au
UPDATE: I just realised that a lot of this information would probably help others, so I created a blog post documenting these steps: http://www.infosemantics.com.au/debug_slow_playback

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