Spinning beach ball in menu bar, sys pref does not work etc

Since last 2 days I have the following problem with Macbook:
1. When i hover the cursor over the menu bar, the beach ball appears. this is for the Mac menu items such as Airport, Spotlight, Fast switching, time & date and also for iStatmenus. However, Little Snitch menu bar indicator is not affected
2. Sysprefs also does not work. It opens up and immediately the beach ball appears and I can't click on any of the sys preferences
3. If i try to watch a video, then the video will not display, though the progress indicator will happily be progressing away (QT, VLC etc)
4. When i run in Safe mode, then everything seems to work ok (at least the menu bar, though the video part still doesn't work)
5. And also in Normal mode, Safari/Netscape Navigator/Camino et al hang & the beach ball appears, but in safe mode they work ok though very sluggish.
6. Though i can't be certain, I think all these problems began after iTunes crashed on me while running a podcast (?)
I have tried everything; repair prefs and repair disk, have run Tinkertool system2 to see if that would help but to no avail. I even downloaded and installed OS X 10.6.7 Combo update-didn't do any good.

I have been trying to deal with the same problem for the last week.
My machine is a MBP 17" 4 GB 2.6GHz, 250 GB alluminum.
1) I've immigrated my whole user apps and doc files to an IMAC 20" 2GB 2.66GHz 350 GB, and the system works just fine on the IMAC (I am using my system that used to be in the MBP right now).
2) I've over written everything on the HD with zeros and have done a clean install of SNOW LEOPARD on my MBP, but as the system got loaded, already before any working files or app files have been reinstalled, the spinning beach ball appears on the upper RIGHT portion of the menu bar and makes the system inoperable.
3) Done system update and made it into a 10.6.8 but the problem persists.
I've basically done what Ravindra had tried.
Please HELP.

Similar Messages

I have checked the box "display date and time on the Menu Bar" and it does not work. Using OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 Anybody have a fix?

I have checked the box "display date and time on the Menu Bar" and it does not work. Using OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 Anybody have a fix?

Please read this whole message before doing anything.
This procedure is a test, not a solution. Don’t be disappointed when you find that nothing has changed after you complete it.
Step 1
The purpose of this step is to determine whether the problem is localized to your user account.
Enable guest logins* and log in as Guest. Don't use the Safari-only “Guest User” login created by “Find My Mac.”
While logged in as Guest, you won’t have access to any of your documents or settings. Applications will behave as if you were running them for the first time. Don’t be alarmed by this behavior; it’s normal. If you need any passwords or other personal data in order to complete the test, memorize, print, or write them down before you begin.
Test while logged in as Guest. Same problem?
After testing, log out of the guest account and, in your own account, disable it if you wish. Any files you created in the guest account will be deleted automatically when you log out of it.
*Note: If you’ve activated “Find My Mac” or FileVault, then you can’t enable the Guest account. The “Guest User” login created by “Find My Mac” is not the same. Create a new account in which to test, and delete it, including its home folder, after testing.
Step 2
The purpose of this step is to determine whether the problem is caused by third-party system modifications that load automatically at startup or login, by a peripheral device, by a font conflict, or by corruption of the file system or of certain system caches.
Please take this step regardless of the results of Step 1.
Disconnect all wired peripherals except those needed for the test, and remove all aftermarket expansion cards, if applicable. Start up in safe mode and log in to the account with the problem. You must hold down the shift key twice: once when you turn on the computer, and again when you log in.
Note: If FileVault is enabled in OS X 10.9 or earlier, or if a firmware password is set, or if the startup volume is a software RAID, you can’t do this. Ask for further instructions.
Safe mode is much slower to start up and run than normal, with limited graphics performance, and some things won’t work at all, including sound output and Wi-Fi on certain models. The next normal startup may also be somewhat slow.
The login screen appears even if you usually log in automatically. You must know your login password in order to log in. If you’ve forgotten the password, you will need to reset it before you begin.
Test while in safe mode. Same problem?
After testing, restart as usual (not in safe mode) and verify that you still have the problem. Post the results of Steps 1 and 2.

Spinning Beach Ball in Menu Bar

Hi Guys,
I am experiencing the spinning beach ball when I cursor over any of the stock menu bar items and the system preferences window on my 2007 MBP. I took the machine to the Apple store today and their diagnostic software told me I needed a new hard drive. I therefore replaced the drive with a new one and I am still getting the same problem. I have done a couple of fresh reinstalls and have not installed any third part software.
Any ideas?

If the suggestions from the link do not work for you, run Apple's Hardware Test disc to check for hardware issues - Intel-based Macs: Using Apple Hardware Test.

How do you lock the menu bar so it does not disappear as the cursor is moved around?

How do you lock the menu bar so it does not disappear as the cursor is moved?

No.... you need a different cover

Second button on menu for slide show does not work.

Anyone else having problems with this? Despite three separate attempts using different photos, different Macs and different themes... it is always the second button (to access the second folder) in the slide show that does not work. It fails to access the slides in the folder.
Our conclusion finally was that this is a bug, so we used only text buttons and put the second button over to the side of the main menu with just a period in it, and one image in the folder (it will not allow a folder without any images) and then we can skip from the first button to the third (seen on the screen as the second button) and bypass the problem.
Has anyone come up with an explanation or a better solution?

Anyone else having problems with this? Despite three separate attempts using different photos, different Macs and different themes... it is always the second button (to access the second folder) in the slide show that does not work. It fails to access the slides in the folder.
Our conclusion finally was that this is a bug, so we used only text buttons and put the second button over to the side of the main menu with just a period in it, and one image in the folder (it will not allow a folder without any images) and then we can skip from the first button to the third (seen on the screen as the second button) and bypass the problem.
Has anyone come up with an explanation or a better solution?

Mozilla crashed yesterday and now bookmarks are not showing along the left side of page as they did before. They are on the menu bar but hubby does not like this location. Anyway I can get it back to the left side of the page?

This spring we changed from IE to Mozilla after upgrading to Win 7. Everything has been fine with Firefox until yesterday when it crashed when I attempted to open an email. Since then the bookmarks (or favorites as my husband calls them) have not been in their usual place which was along the left side of the page. They are located in the Bookmarks bar at the top of the page but husband prefers the old IE way which we had until yesterday PM. Is there any way that we can get them back to the left side of the page other than going back to IE? Now that I have gotten used to Firefox I like it just fine.

*You can open the Bookmarks in the sidebar via View > Sidebar > Bookmarks (Ctrl+B)
*You can open the History in the sidebar via View > Sidebar > History (Ctrl+H)
Press F10 or tap the Alt key to bring up the "Menu Bar" temporarily.
You can find toolbar buttons to open the bookmarks (star) and the history (clock) in the sidebar in the toolbar palette and drag them on a toolbar.<br />
Firefox 4 versions and later have two bookmark buttons with a star in the Customize window.<br />
One star button has a drop marker that open a Bookmark menu.<br />
The other star button without the drop marker opens the bookmarks in the sidebar.<br />
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Toolbar_customization
*https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Back+and+forward+or+other+toolbar+items+are+missing

HT201343 I have a Late 2011 model 13' Macbook Pro and i purchased Apple TV because it should support Airplay mirroring. It says i should have the airplay icon on my menu bar but it does not appear.

According to the help page i was viewing my Late 2011 13' MacBook Pro should support Airplay Mirroring. However the airplay icon does not appear on my menu bar like i says it should and when i go to System prefereneces>Display nothing appears there about Mirroring as well (like it says it should). The help page specifically says that Late 2011 MacBook Pros should support Mirroring etc...
Any suggestions? I'm all ears...

Welcome to the Apple Community.
Airplay needs 10.8 or later, you need to update your operating system.

Oops - spry menu bar 2.0 does not display correctly when loaded

Oops - obviously I'm new at this. I think I got my graphics loaded now.
Dear Sirs:
I notice bzz31 had a pretty complicated post, so perhaps someone can help me with my complicated problem that has been vexing me for months. I tried the Spry Menu Bar 1.0, but it was impossible for me to edit, and I was delighted to see Spry Menu Bar 2.0 come out. However the 2.0 version has been frustrating me as well.
I can get my menu bar to display properly in Live View, as shown below.
However when I load everything onto the server, the menu bar does not display correctly, as shown below:
I don't quite understand the code "file:///" but I interpret it to mean that the Spry-UI-1.7 folder is in the topmost folder of MacPro5-Docs, which is my hard drive. Here's the code I'm having trouble with:
Here's my computer directory, shown below:
Since my index file is two folders down from Spry-UI-1.7, I loaded the files onto the server similarly, as shown in the next three pictures:
(The picture below is the same as the one just above, but now you can see the path from index to Spry-UI-1.7.)
I would be most appreciative if someone can help me.
Thank you.

Have a look at the following links
<script src="file:///MacProG5-Docs/Spry-UI-1.7/includes/SpryDOMUtils.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="file:///MacProG5-Docs/Spry-UI-1.7/includes/SpryDOMEffects.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="file:///MacProG5-Docs/Spry-UI-1.7/includes/SpryWidget.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="file:///MacProG5-Docs/Spry-UI-1.7/includes/SpryMenu.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="file:///MacProG5-Docs/Spry-UI-1.7/includes/plugins/MenuBar2/SpryMenuBarKeyNavigationPlugin.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="file:///MacProG5-Docs/Spry-UI-1.7/includes/plugins/MenuBar2/SpryMenuBarIEWorkaroundsPlugin.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<link href="file:///MacProG5-Docs/Spry-UI-1.7/css/Menu/basic/SpryMenuBasic.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
Each of the above points to a file on your local system and cannot be found by the remote server.
Replace the red coloured parts with http://www.twhsbands.org/ will remedy the situation.
You also have some remnants of the other SpryMenuBar that should be removed from your markup.
Gramps
Wel, so much for the red coloured parts, they did not show up.
The red coloured parts read file:///MacProG5-Docs/

Menu bar with rollover states not working properly

I have a menu bar that I want to have as a certain size. The
menu items that actually link somewhere are not showing up as the
designated size (150x50px) but the one link that is not linked to
somewhere else in the page looks fine (inventory).
Can someone look at the css and tell me if there is something
contradicting or if there is something I can do?
THank you
You can view the problem page at
http://thebradfordcreativegroup.com/abs/indexold.html

Sorry, I don't have the answers - but you need to see your
site in IE6. It
looks quite different - kind of bloated. Also, the "Quality"
link doesn't
have an arrow.
"Inventory" as you say sits up at the top. FF is fine. Sorry
I can't help
though.
Jo
"joshuataylordesign" <[email protected]>
wrote in message
news:fqia5f$anb$[email protected]..
>I have a menu bar that I want to have as a certain size.
The menu items
>that
> actually link somewhere are not showing up as the
designated size
> (150x50px)
> but the one link that is not linked to somewhere else in
the page looks
> fine
> (inventory).
> Can someone look at the css and tell me if there is
something
> contradicting or
> if there is something I can do?
> THank you
> You can view the problem page at
>
http://thebradfordcreativegroup.com/abs/indexold.html
>

Spry horizontal menu bar and accordion panels not working when published

Hi,
I'm a newbie to Dreamweaver and have been asked to design an intranet site. On the site, I added both Spry widgets for a horizontal menu bar and an accordion panel. Both of these widgets work in preview, however, neither work when I publish. I uploaded the Spry asset folder (with all the CSS and JS files) to the remote server, but still no luck. What am I missing?
Thanks.

Despite of what you have staed, my bet is on the fact that the SpryAssets folder and/or the included files are not being found by your page..
Open the site in FF, click on view Source and in the source code click the link to the JS file. If it can be found, it will show the content of the file and you will have the satisfaction of knowing that the page can find the file.
If it does not show the content, you need to correct that.
Good luck.
Ben

Published IOS app space bar and return does not work

Hi
We have developed an app for iPhone/iPad in XCode on a mac. When debugging on iPad from mac, we are able to enter any character in to a text box.
However, the app has been sent through Apple in to the iTunes store and when installing from there, entering in to a text box, the space bar, return key and other non A-Z 0-9 characters just do not work. The space bar does seem to make the auto correct suggestions change, but does not enter a space in to the text.
Why would this happen?
Any help would be hugely appreciated!

Contact facebook here. Sounds like its an app issue.
http://www.facebook.com/help/220217228006012/

Motion 5 pop-up menu in shape toolbar does not work

In the shape toolbar of Motion 5 the pop-up menu's don't work. I can only use the top options like rectangular but no circle or line.
Same with the other buttons in this menu.
Does anybody have an idea how I can fix this?
Thanks! Remco

They can be overly touchy. Click and hold a copule of seconds.. Try double clicking.

Apple TV, menu button on remote does not work???

I updated the firmware usiing iTunes, but the problem is still there.

Then it might well be broken.

IMac 10.6.8 Spinning Beach Ball-Need Help

I have a 27" iMac running OS 10.6.8, it was bought new in 2010, has a 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 4GB of RAM, I have about 450 GB free on my 1TB Hard Drive. The problem I am having is that I get the spinning beach ball all the time. It is not dependent on a program, sometimes it will do it right after boot, other times it will work find for days. I backed up all files on to an external drive, not using Time Machine, formatted the drive, reinstalled OS 10.6 from the original DVD, copied my files back to the computer. Worked fine for about 2 weeks, then the problem came back. Took the computer to the Apple Store, and they had the computer for over a week running test on it. They could not find anything wrong with it. The problem did happen for them, but they could not find the cause. They suggested buying a new Hard Drive from them, having them put it in, and installing OS 10.8, for a cost of over $500. I have tried resetting the NVRAM, repairing disk, and repairing disk permissions, no change. I have booted in Safe Boot, and the problem will happen in Safe Boot as well. I have ran the Apple Hardware Test from the Install DVD, even under the extened test it could not find anything wrong.
Sometimes after waiting a long time the computer will start to work again, most of the time you have to hold the power button to shut it down and boot it back up. I have tired to watch the CPU and RAM, but they stay low CPU usage, under 10% and RAM is over 50% free.
Software running on the computer is Photoshop with Bridge CS3, MS Office X, and Toast. I had Carbonite for backup, but uninstalled that.

They suggested buying a new Hard Drive from them, having them put it in
Apple has a 90 day warranty on all repairs. Strongly suggest that you take the computer right back to them and/or call Apple tech support.
When it’s time to pick up your computer from the repair shop:
*** Before you leave the repair shop, make sure you have the repair tech(s) power the comp up and demonstrate that it is indeed working & repaired properly to your satisfaction.***

Spinning Beach ball in Pages 5.2

I know there are other posts about the spinning beachball in Pages but the situation here is a little different to what others have experienced. At a small school I work at, since upgrading to Pages 5, there have been huge problems with the spinning beach ball in Pages 5. This did not occur in Pages 4. I use Pages 5 all the time at home with no issues and while at other schools. But as soon as I arrive in the school here and the computer connects to the network, the Beachball starts. This morning, I just wanted to type up some brief notes for a meeting. As soon as I started typing up the notes, the Spinning Beachball showed up and started spinning. You can keep on typing with nothing being added to a line and after 20 secs or so, your typing suddenly catches up and then it starts spinning again. I switched the wireless off and as soon as I did that, I could type normally. When I switched the wireless back on to print the notes, the spinning beach ball started up again. This is the ONLY programme this happens with and it didnʻt happen with Pages 4. It has to be network related and obviously Pages is trying to connect to get something from the Internet but what and where? Teachers are getting really frustrated. Any suggestions to stuff I could try would be much appreciated. It would be really great if Apple could sort out Pages and return it back to the great programme it was!

Thanks Peter but with all the school laptops, desktops and teacher laptops, which have all been upgraded, it would be too big a task. The most distressing thing of all is that I had just got the Principal using Pages a while back, as I showed her how quick Pages 4 was to create school policy and planning documents and when they upgraded all the school documents to Pages 5 (Iʻm not a permanent school staff member, only a once a week classroom IT support person) the documents all went to custard where they had used linked Text boxes. I have written a few publications using Pages 4, and I loved it as a fast, clean, easy to use publisher for simple stuff (Iʻll be using Pages 4 this weekend to do a Centenary booklet - I use Indesign for professional stuff) but the two things that now drive me mad is the lack of linked text boxes and the fact you canʻt slide the page thumbnails on the left hand side to rearrange page order as you could in Pages 4. Iʻve heard that a lot of this was removed so they could do the iOS version and make them the same for synching and that the features will come back, but I wish it was sooner rather than later. It is interesting to read of important institutions like Doctors surgeries who have had all their records mucked up by the changes. After doing PD with the staff on using Pages and encouraging them to use it (with the Principalʻs enthusiasm and endorsement) at this school, they have gone back to using Word and I dare not mention Pages again! I hope Apple reads this!

Spinning beach ball in menu bar, sys pref does not work etc

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for