Spinning Beach Ball at login--please help!

Hello! Today I booted my iMac and when I clicked on my username as usual, the spinning beach ball appeared. It was working fine till yesterday! The only two unusual things were yesterday evening, when Safari died on me when a Flash ad loaded and then all the rest of my open applications started not responding (I forced-shut down my iMac and went to sleep), and the Apple firmware update I did on Monday (but again, it was working fine till yesterday). What do I do now if I can't login? Please, please help me! I was very stupid and did not backup the data in my FileVault, so I really need to access my Vault!

Cleaning global and user caches didn't work, cleaning user preferences didn't work, Safe boot didn't work, single-user mode didn't work, the only option left to me was Archive and Install, which fixed my problem.

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Fix #2
Using iPhoto Library Manager to Rebuild Your iPhoto Library
Download iPhoto Library Manager and launch.
Click on the Add Library button, navigate to your Home/Pictures folder and select your iPhoto Library folder.
Now that the library is listed in the left hand pane of iPLM, click on your library and go to the File ➙ Rebuild Library menu option
In the next window name the new library and select the location you want it to be placed.
Click on the Create button.
Note: This creates a new library based on the LIbraryData.xml file in the library and will recover Events, Albums, keywords, titles and comments but not books, calendars or slideshows. The original library will be left untouched for further attempts at fixing the problem or in case the rebuilt library is not satisfactory.

HELP ... I'm in the land of spinning beach balls !

Hello and thanks ahead of time for any posts to my problem.
I've been successfully working a slide show from stills in iMovie 4 (w/some titles, ken burns, music, etc.)
It's been going great.
I wish I had a security camera taping me so I know exactly what I did at the end....
I "saved as" to my second internal HD
This save took several min., afterward it seemed to close the movie down and reopen the saved one.
All is looking well....
but the movie was acting jerky, not smooth as it had been.
I deleted my trash (I figured I didn't need that stuff anymore)
I closed the movie and went to double check the original on start up drive, thinking I don't want to delete anything till I make sure the backup works.
I can't open the orgiinial.
I can't open the back up on the second drive.
I get the spinning beach ball if I double click on the icon, or if I navigate there from the iMovie start up screen.
... furthermore I found a lot of iMovie type stuff in my desktop trash can that I don't think I put there. I took all that stuff out and put it in a folder on my desktop.
I've worked hard on this project and even tried to back up my work as anyone should.
HELP !!!!!!!
-Ray

... the whole project was done on iMovieHD
I'm OK .... sort of
I went to apple menu-recent items clicked on my movie there and it opened!
I went staight to iDVD, composed the DVD and burned so I have copies for all family members.
My question is, when I go via the finder to one of my movie projects, I can't even single click on it and get info without getting a spinning beach ball. I have to force quit the finder every time
I'm trying to comfirm which project was the last one used, how much space, etc. ... can't do it!
Should I do a Save As to my second hard drive and trust it?
In the future, is there a way to set the default location where iMovieHD and IDVD save to? I'm trying to use my second HD instead of my startup.
Whats the archive project thing in IDVD?
Sorry for so many questions, I can use the applications fine, but I have guesse I have problems on 'managing" the applications
-Ray

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

Hi
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?
Ideally Server and Client should be the same version although if approached correctly there should not be any problems if the Server is one version ahead of the clients.
Mileage as ever will vary.
Tony

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