Regually getting spinning rainbow ball

I've had my macbook since it was released last year and in recent months, when browsing the internet, I see the spinning rainbow ball thing so opening new pages is taking a few seconds longer than normal. It doesn't happen all the time but I'd say 70% of the time.
My wireless interent connection is always perfect (I'm always within a few meters of the modem) and always shows as full connectivity.
Someone said I need to do something with one of the disks that came with the computer. I'm pretty much a novice on Apples so please bare this in mind!! Thanks

Welcome to Apple Discussions!
If we could look at the websites giving you difficulty, maybe we can tell if the issue is something on the website which isn't quite compatible with your browser, or if it is likely an issue with how data is just passing over the net.
There are many reasons for slowing down, outlined in my FAQ*:
http://www.macmaps.com/Macosxspeed.html
If your data is backed up, we can examine them one by one*:
http://www.macmaps.com/backup.html
- * Links to my pages may give me compensation.

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Also, whenever I try to save or print something, the dialogue box will pop up but then instantly disappear before I'm able to click anything.
I'm running Mac OS X 10.6.6. My Macbook is about two and a half years old; I'm wondering if this is just related to the age of my computer. I have plenty of memory available.

Welcome to Apple Discussions!
If we could look at the websites giving you difficulty, maybe we can tell if the issue is something on the website which isn't quite compatible with your browser, or if it is likely an issue with how data is just passing over the net.
There are many reasons for slowing down, outlined in my FAQ*:
http://www.macmaps.com/Macosxspeed.html
If your data is backed up, we can examine them one by one*:
http://www.macmaps.com/backup.html
- * Links to my pages may give me compensation.

Mac Mini and spinning rainbow ball

I bought a refurbished Mac Mini 2.0Ghz from Apple about a year ago. It doesnt seem as fast as my older MacBook. I'm always getting the rainbow ball...should I upgrade the memory or is it something else? I currently have 2GB.

Danny Boy® wrote:
I'm always getting the rainbow ball
also check this article: _*Troubleshoot the spinning beach ball*_.
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Spinning rainbow ball

So I'm waiting (again) on Final Cut to gets its act together. How long to you usually let the ball spin before force quitting and reopening, loosing any progress since the last save/autosave?

Ha, good point. The Toshiba is my personal machine, and Windows 7 is in the mail. For what it's worth I've found Vista more stable than OSX, but I'm not looking for a flame war or anything silly like that.
At work I'm using a MacPro Octo 3.2 (late 2008) with 16gb ram and FCS2 on Leopard 10.5.8. I think the video card is nVidia, I know it has 512mb on the video card, but that's what I remember off of the top of my head. As for hard drives we've got one system drive, and internal RAID array, an external RAID array, (LaCie) and two other external hard drives, one LaCie, one WD. I'm at home right now otherwise I would look the specs up.
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I'm thinking back to the project before the one I'm working on now, I had a 15 minute timeline with about 10 instances of one Motion template, a lower 3rd with two text fields. If I would update the template I would be waiting about 8 minutes between saving in Motion and being able to do something in Final Cut, again with the spinning rainbow ball. One in five times FCP would just crash all together, so save, then Open in Editor became a routine part of my workflow.
I'm still a student and I've had similar issues putting .motn files on timelines using the school's computers, so I don't think I have a bad Apple at work. What is a normal waiting time?

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whenever I open the media inspector within iWeb I get the infamous "spinning rainbow ball of doom" and no matter how long I leave it the program has effectively crashed. I eventually have to force quit (the prompt tells me that iWeb is not responding). This happens every time and is highly annoying as I am forced to drag media from their host programs (iPhoto, iMovie etc). Can anyone help me?

Theres been some threads about this. I'll post the main solutions that can cause this.
If there are movies in your iPhoto, export them and delete from iPhoto.
Move the contents of your movie folders out.
If you notice iWeb works fine, import the movies back into the movie folder one at a time. After each import, launch iWeb, if it works great, if you notice you got 3 movies in and the fourth one caused the spinning ball, its that movie causing an issue.

Macbook Pro is freezing with the spinning rainbow ball of death constantly going. Can someone review my Etrecheck and tell me what to do?

My macbook pro is constantly freezing with the rainbow ball of death spinning all the time. I ran Etrecheck. Any help would be much appreciated!
Problem description:
Running slow; constant spinning rainbow ball
EtreCheck version: 2.0.11 (98)
Report generated November 12, 2014 at 2:08:28 PM CST
Hardware Information: ℹ️
MacBook Pro (13-inch, Early 2011) (Verified)
MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro8,1
1 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 2-core
4 GB RAM Upgradeable
BANK 0/DIMM0
2 GB DDR3 1333 MHz ok
BANK 1/DIMM0
2 GB DDR3 1333 MHz ok
Bluetooth: Old - Handoff/Airdrop2 not supported
Wireless: en1: 802.11 a/b/g/n
Video Information: ℹ️
Intel HD Graphics 3000 - VRAM: 384 MB
Color LCD 1280 x 800
System Software: ℹ️
OS X 10.10 (14A389) - Uptime: 2:40:10
Disk Information: ℹ️
Hitachi HTS545032B9A302 disk0 : (320.07 GB)
S.M.A.R.T. Status: Verified
EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB
Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted> [Recovery]: 650 MB
Macintosh HD (disk1) / [Startup]: 318.84 GB (115.79 GB free)
Core Storage: disk0s2 319.21 GB Online
MATSHITADVD-R   UJ-8A8
USB Information: ℹ️
Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)
Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
Apple Inc. BRCM2070 Hub
Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
Thunderbolt Information: ℹ️
Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus
Gatekeeper: ℹ️
Mac App Store and identified developers
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[invalid?] com.nero.HSMMonitor.plist Support
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Microsoft Database Daemon Application (/Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Office/Microsoft Database Daemon.app)
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„Google“ diskas Application (/Applications/Google Drive.app)
Internet Plug-ins: ℹ️
AdobeAAMDetect: Version: AdobeAAMDetect 2.0.0.0 - SDK 10.7 Support
FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 15.0.0.223 - SDK 10.6 Support
Default Browser: Version: 600 - SDK 10.10
Flash Player: Version: 15.0.0.223 - SDK 10.6 Support
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Java Support
Time Machine: ℹ️
Time Machine not configured!
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      1% mdworker32
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155 MB mds_stores
137 MB Microsoft Outlook
133 MB softwareupdated
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Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ 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.
The title of the Console window should be All Messages. If it isn't, select
          SYSTEM LOG QUERIES ▹ All Messages
from the log list on the left. If you don't see that list, select
          View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar at the top of the screen. Click the Clear Display icon in the toolbar. Then take one of the actions that you're having trouble with. Select any messages that appear in the Console window. Copy them to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-V.
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Spinning rainbow ball when moving through a file

I'm on my macbook pro. Just got an Optoma projector. Just updated to Adobe Reader 8. When I am trying to move through a file window in Adobe, while my class is watching on the Optoma projector that is mirroring, I will click on the up or down arrows on the side of the window, and the computer will give me the spinning rainbow ball for several seconds before scrolling up or down. Is there some cache or file I need to be cleaning out to improve my computer's performance in Adobe Reader? Is it a problem with Adobe 8? or is the intervening variable that I have just started hooking up the computer to a projector? I have always had great answers posting and look forward to learning something else. Thanks.

Hi
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Installed CS6 onto a MPB running 10.8.3. I did the install on friday, everything ran fine. We to work on this morning and when ever I try to open files I get the spinning beach ball. I restarted computer a couple times and tried a variety of files. Still not working.

What files? Where are they stored? What does their artwork contain? AI is quite particular about that stuff and isn't enamored with network drives or specific external drives just liek there's a million otehr potential causes like font problems, printer setups and what have you...
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Iphoto not working - i get spinning rainbow wheel

My iphoto does not work.. It has suddenly stopped!
When I open iPhoto, the spinning rainbow wheel comes up, and I am unable to do anything - so I have to force quit..
I'm not sure what to do? I have the extended warranty for my laptop - it is less than 12 months old
iTunes also wont update to the latest version either.....
Any suggestions on what I should do?
Im mostly concerned about iPhoto...

Hi,
I've had this issue twice now when importing photo's from my iPhone.
First time I rebuild library from backup. The backup did not contain the imported pictures so iPhoto worked fine again.
Yesterday I "retried" to import. So the problem re-occured (duh).
This time however I noticed there was an "update icon" next to places when iPhoto froze.
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Close iPhoto, open again using Option (or alt) key (because the new, empty, library has been set to default automatically), select your original library and your iPhoto should be fine again.
This did the trick for me. Hope this helps.
Cheers!

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my issue started a month or 2 ago while playing diablo 3 and happened everytime i played. it would freeze and give me the rainbow spinning ball. nothing i could do to close the game would work so i had to do a power cycle each time. that issue would only happen when i played that game. but not anymore, starting on the 4/10/15 it now happens all the time regardless of what I’m doing. it’s doing it right now as i type this at random times and the length of the freeze is 5 seconds to 1 minute. the freezing is so bad now, and i just know someone will ask me to go to the 'console' but i have tried many times to do that but the freezing is so often i can't get any info. any help or suggestions would be nice. i do live 30 minutes from a apple store so i could go to the genius bar, does it cost to do a diagnostic?
OS X Yosemite
imac (27-inch, late 2012)
version 10.10.2
processor 2.9 ghz intel core i5
memory 8 gb 1600 mhz ddr3
graphics nvidia geforce GTX 660m 512 mb

Anonymous UUID: 3F8E4848-103C-F6AB-CCF4-BD064E33794B
Sun Apr 12 08:23:20 2015
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Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address
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Mac OS version:
14C1514
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"open recents" or print gets spinning beach ball

Hello all -
Running 10.4.11 -- and now finding that system gets hung up on anything that has a drop down menu... like opening recents in Pages, or FCP or DVDStudio pro..... I can OPEN a file individually, but get stuck when I do this particular function. I know this system is "aging out", but I have to clunk along with FCP 4.5 for a while, and didn't want to upset the apple cart (ooops, no pun intended) by doing any major updates.
I have tried a program called AppleJack... that might fix operational issues.... but didn't seem to make a difference.
Any thoughts would be welcomed.

It may not be a related issue, but we get a never ending beach ball when opening files from Adobe Illustrator. If I browse and open a file, it works fine. If I plug part of the file name into he search box (located in the open dialogue box) a choose a file from the match results ...then it goes into a never-ending beach ball and if I force quit Illustrator it says "not responding" by the Adobe Illustrator icon (in the force quit dialogue box).
-T

Please help. Keep getting Spinning Rainbow Wheel

Can anyone help please I keep getting this when ever I open a new tab in a browser or whenever I do "anything", the little wheel comes up for about 2-3 seconds, even when typing this right now it's happened. Even if i decide to open a new application it starts up.
I have
Intel i7 Quad
1TB Harddrive
4GB Ram
27" iMac (2010)
1 GB Nvidia Graphics
Now the system has run fine since I had it, now that the apple care has run out it's decided to play up, I've been using apple for 10 years mostly because it's hassle free but this is seriously annoying. I can't do anything?
I tried playing several games too; World of Warcraft, same thing keeps stuttering with wheel. Same with Starcraft.
I've never had any problems before, ever. Been able to play and multitask sometimes without even the slightest problem.
Now I can't even type this query without the wheel happening.
Things I've done to stop it:
-lowered graphics on games
-restarted/shutdown
-opened in safe mode
-run a disk repair
Nothing is working, it's really disheartening, and frustrating.

Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ 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.
The title of the Console window should be All Messages. If it isn't, select
SYSTEM LOG QUERIES ▹ All Messages
from the log list on the left. If you don't see that list, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar at the top of the screen.
Click the Clear Display icon in the toolbar. Then try the action that you're having trouble with again. Select any messages that appear in the Console window. Copy them to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-V.
☞ The log contains a vast amount of information, almost all of which is irrelevant to solving any particular problem. When posting a log extract, be selective. A few dozen lines are almost always more than enough.
Please don't indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Please don't post screenshots of log messages—post the text.
☞ Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.

Mountain Lion - Spinning Rainbow Ball of Doom

Ever since I tried accessing a document from Dropbox, I have been unable to login to my main account. I've tried disabling all start-up apps after logging in under safe mode. Other accounts work, but I can only access the main one in safe mode. Pasted the console record of frozen boot on main account below. I know it's a lot, but I'm baffled. Any help would be much appreciated!
Thanks
10/18/12 5:50:35.268 PM SecurityAgent[157]: Login Window login proceeding
10/18/12 5:50:35.901 PM loginwindow[53]: Login Window - Returned from Security Agent
10/18/12 5:50:35.914 PM loginwindow[53]: ERROR | ScreensharingLoginNotification | Failed sending message to screen sharing GetScreensharingPort, err: 1102
10/18/12 5:50:35.933 PM awacsd[67]: Exiting
10/18/12 5:50:35.943 PM loginwindow[53]: USER_PROCESS: 53 console
10/18/12 5:50:36.032 PM WindowServer[108]: Received display connect changed for display 0x4280380
10/18/12 5:50:36.052 PM WindowServer[108]: MPAccessSurfaceForDisplayDevice: Set up page flip mode on display 0x04280380 device: 0x1092da320 isBackBuffered: 1 numComp: 3 numDisp: 3
10/18/12 5:50:36.084 PM WindowServer[108]: CGXMuxAcknowledge: Posting glitchless acknowledge
10/18/12 5:50:36.102 PM WindowServer[108]: Received display connect changed for display 0x4280380
10/18/12 5:50:36.114 PM WindowServer[108]: Received display connect changed for display 0x3f003d
10/18/12 5:50:36.114 PM WindowServer[108]: Received display connect changed for display 0x3f003e
10/18/12 5:50:36.114 PM WindowServer[108]: Received display connect changed for display 0x3f003f
10/18/12 5:50:36.197 PM WindowServer[108]: **DMPROXY** (2) Found `/System/Library/CoreServices/DMProxy'.
10/18/12 5:50:36.253 PM TabletDriver[173]: RunApplication called while eStopping
10/18/12 5:50:36.267 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.wacom.pentablet[173]) Exited with code: 255
10/18/12 5:50:36.380 PM WindowServer[108]: Display 0x04280380: MappedDisplay Unit 0; ColorProfile { 2, "Color LCD"}; TransferFormula (1.000000, 1.000000, 1.000000)
10/18/12 5:50:36.381 PM coreservicesd[31]: SendFlattenedData, got error #268435460 (ipc/send) timed out from ::mach_msg(), sending notification kLSNotifyApplicationReady to notificationID=119
10/18/12 5:50:36.886 PM blued[66]: kBTXPCUpdateUserPreferences gConsoleUserUID = 503
10/18/12 5:50:36.000 PM kernel[0]: CODE SIGNING: cs_invalid_page(0x1000): p=207[GoogleSoftwareUp] clearing CS_VALID
10/18/12 5:50:37.283 PM UserEventAgent[175]: cannot find fw daemon port 1102
10/18/12 5:50:37.595 PM apsd[69]: Unable to bootstrap_lookup connection port for 'com.apple.ubd.system-push': Unknown service name
10/18/12 5:50:37.982 PM com.apple.SecurityServer[17]: Session 100008 created
10/18/12 5:50:37.993 PM GoogleSoftwareUpdateDaemon[230]: -[KeystoneDaemon logServiceState] GoogleSoftwareUpdate daemon (1.1.0.3659) vending:
          com.google.Keystone.Daemon.UpdateEngine: 2 connection(s)
          com.google.Keystone.Daemon.Administration: 0 connection(s)
10/18/12 5:50:38.008 PM GoogleSoftwareUpdateDaemon[230]: -[KSUpdateEngine updateProductID:] KSUpdateEngine updating product ID: "com.google.Keystone"
10/18/12 5:50:38.015 PM GoogleSoftwareUpdateDaemon[230]: -[KSCheckAction performAction] KSCheckAction checking 1 ticket(s).
10/18/12 5:50:38.022 PM GoogleSoftwareUpdateDaemon[230]: -[KSUpdateCheckAction performAction] KSUpdateCheckAction starting update check for ticket(s): {(
          <KSTicket:0x697b0d0
                    productID=com.google.Keystone
                    version=1.1.0.3659
                    xc=<KSPathExistenceChecker:0x697bc50 path=/Library/Google/GoogleSoftwareUpdate/GoogleSoftwareUpdate.bundle/>
                    serverType=Omaha
                    url=https://tools.google.com/service/update2
                    creationDate=2011-08-15 07:09:31
          >
Using server: <KSOmahaServer:0x6b757f0
          engine=<KSDaemonUpdateEngine:0x6978de0>
          params={
                    EngineVersion = "1.1.0.3659";
                    ActivesInfo = {
                              "com.Google.GoogleEarthPlus.intel" = {
                                        LastRollCallPingDate = 2012-04-15 07:00:00 +0000;
                              "com.google.Keystone" = {
                                        LastRollCallPingDate = 2012-10-18 07:00:00 +0000;
                                        LastActiveDate = 2012-10-19 00:50:37 +0000;
                                        LastActivePingDate = 2012-10-18 07:00:00 +0000;
                              "com.google.macphotouploader" = {
                                        LastRollCallPingDate = 2010-03-10 00:42:42 +0000;
                              "com.google.Chrome" = {
                                        LastActiveDate = 2012-10-18 06:59:37 +0000;
                                        LastActivePingDate = 2012-10-18 07:00:00 +0000;
                                        LastRollCallPingDate = 2012-10-18 07:00:00 +0000;
                              "com.google.talkplugin" = {
                                        LastActivePingDate = 2012-10-11 07:00:00 +0000;
                                        LastActiveDate = 2012-10-10 07:21:41 +0000;
                                        LastRollCallPingDate = 2012-10-18 07:00:00 +0000;
                    UserInitiated = 0;
                    IsSystem = 1;
                    OmahaOSVersion = "10.8.2_i486";
                    Identity = KeystoneDaemon;
                    AllowedSubdomains = (
                              ".omaha.sandbox.google.com",
                              ".tools.google.com",
                              ".www.google.com",
                              ".corp.google.com"
>
10/18/12 5:50:38.024 PM GoogleSoftwareUpdateDaemon[230]: -[KSUpdateCheckAction performAction] KSUpdateCheckAction running KSServerUpdateRequest: <KSOmahaServerUpdateRequest:0x6b7a500
          server=<KSOmahaServer:0x6b757f0>
          url="https://tools.google.com/service/update2"
          runningFetchers=0
          tickets=1
          activeTickets=0
          rollCallTickets=0
          body=
                    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
                    <o:gupdate xmlns:o="http://www.google.com/update2/request" protocol="2.0" version="KeystoneDaemon-1.1.0.3659" ismachine="1">
                        <o:os platform="mac" version="MacOSX" sp="10.8.2_i486"></o:os>
                        <o:app appid="com.google.Keystone" version="1.1.0.3659" lang="en-us" installage="430" brand="GGLG">
                            <o:updatecheck></o:updatecheck>
                        </o:app>
                    </o:gupdate>
>
10/18/12 5:50:38.172 PM NetworkBrowserAgent[233]: Starting NetworkBrowserAgent
10/18/12 5:50:38.785 PM GoogleSoftwareUpdateDaemon[230]: -[KSUpdateCheckAction(KSServerUpdateRequestDelegate) serverRequest:fetchedWithResponse:] KSUpdateCheckAction received KSServerUpdateResponse: <KSOmahaServerUpdateResponse:0x697cdb0
          server=<KSOmahaServer:0x6b757f0>
          url="https://tools.google.com/service/update2"
          status=200
          tickets=1
          activeTickets=0
          rollCallTickets=0
          data=
                    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
                    <gupdate xmlns="http://www.google.com/update2/response" protocol="2.0" server="prod">
                        <daystart elapsed_seconds="64238"></daystart>
                        <app appid="com.google.Keystone" status="ok">
                            <updatecheck status="noupdate"></updatecheck>
                        </app>
                    </gupdate>
>
10/18/12 5:50:38.813 PM GoogleSoftwareUpdateDaemon[230]: -[KSUpdateCheckAction(PrivateMethods) finishAction] KSUpdateCheckAction found updates: {( )}
10/18/12 5:50:38.816 PM GoogleSoftwareUpdateDaemon[230]: -[KSPrefetchAction performAction] KSPrefetchAction no updates to prefetch.
10/18/12 5:50:38.817 PM GoogleSoftwareUpdateDaemon[230]: -[KSMultiUpdateAction performAction] KSSilentUpdateAction had no updates to apply.
10/18/12 5:50:38.818 PM GoogleSoftwareUpdateDaemon[230]: -[KSMultiUpdateAction performAction] KSPromptAction had no updates to apply.
10/18/12 5:50:38.821 PM GoogleSoftwareUpdateDaemon[230]: -[KSUpdateEngine(PrivateMethods) updateFinish] KSUpdateEngine update processing complete.
10/18/12 5:50:39.048 PM GoogleSoftwareUpdateDaemon[230]: -[KSUpdateEngine updateAllProducts] KSUpdateEngine updating all installed products.
10/18/12 5:50:39.051 PM GoogleSoftwareUpdateDaemon[230]: -[KSCheckAction performAction] KSCheckAction checking 2 ticket(s).
10/18/12 5:50:39.056 PM GoogleSoftwareUpdateDaemon[230]: -[KSUpdateCheckAction performAction] KSUpdateCheckAction starting update check for ticket(s): {(
          <KSTicket:0x8677180
                    productID=com.google.Keystone
                    version=1.1.0.3659
                    xc=<KSPathExistenceChecker:0x86775f0 path=/Library/Google/GoogleSoftwareUpdate/GoogleSoftwareUpdate.bundle/>
                    serverType=Omaha
                    url=https://tools.google.com/service/update2
                    creationDate=2011-08-15 07:09:31
          >,
          <KSTicket:0x86779f0
                    productID=com.google.talkplugin
                    version=3.9.1.9832
                    xc=<KSPathExistenceChecker:0x8677960 path=/Library/Application Support/Google/GoogleTalkPlugin.app>
                    serverType=Omaha
                    url=https://tools.google.com/service/update2
                    creationDate=2011-08-15 07:09:31
          >
Using server: <KSOmahaServer:0x6d7e470
          engine=<KSDaemonUpdateEngine:0x6978de0>
          params={
                    EngineVersion = "1.1.0.3659";
                    ActivesInfo = {
                              "com.Google.GoogleEarthPlus.intel" = {
                                        LastRollCallPingDate = 2012-04-15 07:00:00 +0000;
                              "com.google.Keystone" = {
                                        LastRollCallPingDate = 2012-10-18 07:00:00 +0000;
                                        LastActiveDate = 2012-10-19 00:50:37 +0000;
                                        LastActivePingDate = 2012-10-18 07:00:00 +0000;
                              "com.google.macphotouploader" = {
                                        LastRollCallPingDate = 2010-03-10 00:42:42 +0000;
                              "com.google.Chrome" = {
                                        LastActiveDate = 2012-10-18 06:59:37 +0000;
                                        LastActivePingDate = 2012-10-18 07:00:00 +0000;
                                        LastRollCallPingDate = 2012-10-18 07:00:00 +0000;
                              "com.google.talkplugin" = {
                                        LastActivePingDate = 2012-10-11 07:00:00 +0000;
                                        LastActiveDate = 2012-10-10 07:21:41 +0000;
                                        LastRollCallPingDate = 2012-10-18 07:00:00 +0000;
                    UserInitiated = 0;
                    IsSystem = 1;
                    OmahaOSVersion = "10.8.2_i486";
                    Identity = KeystoneDaemon;
                    AllowedSubdomains = (
                              ".omaha.sandbox.google.com",
                              ".tools.google.com",
                              ".www.google.com",
                              ".corp.google.com"
>
10/18/12 5:50:39.057 PM GoogleSoftwareUpdateDaemon[230]: -[KSUpdateCheckAction performAction] KSUpdateCheckAction running KSServerUpdateRequest: <KSOmahaServerUpdateRequest:0x6d7e540
          server=<KSOmahaServer:0x6d7e470>
          url="https://tools.google.com/service/update2"
          runningFetchers=0
          tickets=2
          activeTickets=0
          rollCallTickets=0
          body=
                    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
                    <o:gupdate xmlns:o="http://www.google.com/update2/request" protocol="2.0" version="KeystoneDaemon-1.1.0.3659" ismachine="1">
                        <o:os platform="mac" version="MacOSX" sp="10.8.2_i486"></o:os>
                        <o:app appid="com.google.Keystone" version="1.1.0.3659" lang="en-us" installage="430" brand="GGLG">
                            <o:updatecheck></o:updatecheck>
                        </o:app>
                        <o:app appid="com.google.talkplugin" version="3.9.1.9832" lang="en-us" installage="430" brand="GGLG">
                            <o:updatecheck></o:updatecheck>
                        </o:app>
                    </o:gupdate>
>
10/18/12 5:50:39.536 PM GoogleSoftwareUpdateDaemon[230]: -[KSUpdateCheckAction(KSServerUpdateRequestDelegate) serverRequest:fetchedWithResponse:] KSUpdateCheckAction received KSServerUpdateResponse: <KSOmahaServerUpdateResponse:0x69805b0
          server=<KSOmahaServer:0x6d7e470>
          url="https://tools.google.com/service/update2"
          status=200
          tickets=2
          activeTickets=0
          rollCallTickets=0
          data=
                    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
                    <gupdate xmlns="http://www.google.com/update2/response" protocol="2.0" server="prod">
                        <daystart elapsed_seconds="64239"></daystart>
                        <app appid="com.google.Keystone" status="ok">
                            <updatecheck status="noupdate"></updatecheck>
                        </app>
                        <app appid="com.google.talkplugin" status="ok">
                            <updatecheck status="noupdate"></updatecheck>
                        </app>
                    </gupdate>
>
10/18/12 5:50:39.539 PM GoogleSoftwareUpdateDaemon[230]: -[KSUpdateCheckAction(PrivateMethods) finishAction] KSUpdateCheckAction found updates: {( )}
10/18/12 5:50:39.543 PM GoogleSoftwareUpdateDaemon[230]: -[KSPrefetchAction performAction] KSPrefetchAction no updates to prefetch.
10/18/12 5:50:39.543 PM GoogleSoftwareUpdateDaemon[230]: -[KSMultiUpdateAction performAction] KSSilentUpdateAction had no updates to apply.
10/18/12 5:50:39.545 PM GoogleSoftwareUpdateDaemon[230]: -[KSMultiUpdateAction performAction] KSPromptAction had no updates to apply.
10/18/12 5:50:39.546 PM GoogleSoftwareUpdateDaemon[230]: -[KSUpdateEngine(PrivateMethods) updateFinish] KSUpdateEngine update processing complete.
10/18/12 5:51:29.000 PM bootlog[0]: BOOT_TIME 1350607889 0

Tried again, nearly same thing, with Finder almost finishing start up, showing some open windows that I can move, but then it freezes, and I can't launch any apps. Checked console and got a shorter string. Is this a software or hardware problem?
Thanks!
Mike
10/18/12 6:27:34.632 PM awacsd[68]: Exiting
10/18/12 6:28:01.570 PM SecurityAgent[121]: User info context values set for Fantasia
10/18/12 6:28:03.467 PM SecurityAgent[121]: Login Window login proceeding
10/18/12 6:28:04.297 PM loginwindow[54]: Login Window - Returned from Security Agent
10/18/12 6:28:04.324 PM loginwindow[54]: ERROR | ScreensharingLoginNotification | Failed sending message to screen sharing GetScreensharingPort, err: 1102
10/18/12 6:28:04.339 PM loginwindow[54]: USER_PROCESS: 54 console
10/18/12 6:28:04.417 PM WindowServer[99]: Received display connect changed for display 0x4280380
10/18/12 6:28:04.465 PM WindowServer[99]: CGXMuxAcknowledge: Posting glitchless acknowledge
10/18/12 6:28:04.473 PM WindowServer[99]: MPAccessSurfaceForDisplayDevice: Set up page flip mode on display 0x04280380 device: 0x103df7320 isBackBuffered: 1 numComp: 3 numDisp: 3
10/18/12 6:28:04.504 PM WindowServer[99]: Received display connect changed for display 0x4280380
10/18/12 6:28:04.513 PM WindowServer[99]: Received display connect changed for display 0x3f003d
10/18/12 6:28:04.514 PM WindowServer[99]: Received display connect changed for display 0x3f003e
10/18/12 6:28:04.514 PM WindowServer[99]: Received display connect changed for display 0x3f003f
10/18/12 6:28:04.664 PM TabletDriver[186]: RunApplication called while eStopping
10/18/12 6:28:04.676 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.wacom.pentablet[186]) Exited with code: 255
10/18/12 6:28:04.933 PM blued[67]: kBTXPCUpdateUserPreferences gConsoleUserUID = 503
10/18/12 6:28:05.188 PM UserEventAgent[189]: cannot find fw daemon port 1102
10/18/12 6:28:05.516 PM WindowServer[99]: **DMPROXY** (2) Found `/System/Library/CoreServices/DMProxy'.
10/18/12 6:28:05.579 PM WindowServer[99]: Display 0x04280380: MappedDisplay Unit 0; ColorProfile { 2, "Color LCD"}; TransferFormula (1.000000, 1.000000, 1.000000)
10/18/12 6:28:05.614 PM com.apple.SecurityServer[17]: Session 100006 created
10/18/12 6:28:05.691 PM coreservicesd[34]: SendFlattenedData, got error #268435460 (ipc/send) timed out from ::mach_msg(), sending notification kLSNotifyApplicationReady to notificationID=124
10/18/12 6:28:06.394 PM WindowServer[99]: kCGErrorNotImplemented: receive_notification: CPXSetEventFilter failed
10/18/12 6:28:06.625 PM WindowServer[99]: kCGErrorNotImplemented: receive_notification: CPXSetEventFilter failed
10/18/12 6:28:06.629 PM coreservicesd[34]: Can't change an application into stopped state for app App:"System Preferences" [ 0x0/0xa00a] @ 0x0x7fe830c1ac90 because it's already been started.
10/18/12 6:28:07.045 PM NetworkBrowserAgent[229]: Starting NetworkBrowserAgent
10/18/12 6:28:07.798 PM genatsdb[230]: ########## genatsdb Sandboxed. ##########
10/18/12 6:28:09.430 PM fseventsd[59]: could not open <</Volumes/MUSIC/.fseventsd/fseventsd-uuid>> (No such file or directory)
10/18/12 6:28:09.430 PM fseventsd[59]: log dir: /Volumes/MUSIC/.fseventsd getting new uuid: B33DFBB8-7B05-4B09-A9DC-97D6A1549782
10/18/12 6:30:25.000 PM bootlog[0]: BOOT_TIME 1350610225 0

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My MacBook Pro constantly freezes when I'm working in a Word document or while on the internet. What causes this and how can this be avoided? I have cleared the Download and Trash folders, but it didn't help.

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