Spinning beach ball of death on opening mail

I've been using mail since i had my Mac OS X 10.4.6, however, when I updated to 10.4.9, as soon as i open the program, i get the spinning beach ball of death, making me force quit the application. basically, i cannot use my mail application!!!

Quit the Mail.app and using the Finder go to Home > Library > Mail.
Delete the newly created Mail folder.
Move the original Mail folder from the Desktop back to the same location. Copy the original Mail folder and place the copy on the Desktop for backup purposes.
Using the Finder go to Home > Library > Preferences > com.apple.mail.plist. Move the com.apple.mail.plist file to the Desktop.
Note: Moving the com.apple.mail.plist file out of the Preferences folder will require re-entering all email account information when re-launching Mail.
Launch Mail and if successful, decline any prompt provided to import mailboxes. After re-entering all email account information the same as before, the Mail.app should rediscover the existing account named folders and mailboxes at Home > Library > Mail.
If this is successful, you can delete the copy of the Mail folder and the old com.apple.mail.plist file from the Desktop.

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Spinning beach ball of death when opening a project

hello,
i would like to ask if there is a solution to my problem:
at my school in the media department, there are 4 eMac's 2 with OS X Panther and imovie 04, and 2 with OS X jaguar with imovie 03, now only one of the jaguar computers has decided that it wont open only one project, and it needs to be sent off to the exam board, all that happens is when i open it, i just get the spinning beach ball of death, and nothing else, i have tried to connect another mac with ilife 04 to it but the same problem occurs, i am updating the macs so that they will all have panther and ilife 05, would that solve it? also would any existing projects from imovie 3/4 be able to be opened in ilife05?
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I accidentally quit my CC on my Macbook pro and now the cloud icon is grayed out and every time I hover over it with the mouse I get the spinning beach ball of death on the icon. I have no idea how to open it because when I use spotlight search to open it

I accidentally quit my CC on my Macbook pro and now the cloud icon is grayed out and every time I hover over it with the mouse I get the spinning beach ball of death on the icon. I have no idea how to open it because when I use spotlight search to open it it gives me a message saying "Creative Cloud is not open anymore" help!

Since you didn't include any pertinent info such as the Mac model and OS version you are running, here is some general information:
Mac OS X: Gray screen appears during startup
Depending on which OS yours came with originally - and which OS you are now running - you would either need your original install disks - you can call Apple for replacements by giving them your serial number. Or you may be able to reinstall the OS by using recovery (again, depends on which model/which OS).

Mail Plagued by Spinning Beach Ball of Death After 10.6 Upgrade...

Hello,
After the upgrade to Mac 10.6, Mail is plagued by the spinning beach ball of death. I did get the confirmation that the Mail database had been successfully rebuilt and the window looks fine for a few seconds before the program stalls. I have tried removing the Preferences and Envelope Index files before a restart without any change. Activity Monitor shows Mail eating up just shy of 100% CPU and the infamous "Not Responding" phrase.
Any clues from here?
More microchips than sense,
Dr. Z.

See the following threads corresponding to Snow Leopard:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10064960&#10064960
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10063772&#10063772
This was also an intermittent issue in Leopard:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9756242&#9756242
Deleting all Smart Groups in Address Book resolves the issue.
Feedback time:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html
Interestingly enough, the Feedback page drop-down menu has not been updated with SL. =/
John

Finder periodically plagued with Spinning Beach Ball of Death

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

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

Frequent Crashes - Unrecoverable spinning beach ball of death - with 10.5.7

I upgraded to 10.5.6 when it was released. I experienced multiple kernel panics daily, many of which cited graphics related faults. So I reformatted the HD, reinstalled Leopard, and installed the 10.5.5 combo update.
Last week I installed the 10.5.7 combo update along with other minor non-os updates. Now, instead of having multiple kernel panics, I get multiple system Freezes at random. But usually associated with opening or closing dialog boxes (save as..., etc.), progress bars, and opening Apps from the dock. The system freeze is evident by the Spinning Beach Ball of Death. CMD-OPT-Esc doesn't not bring up the force quit dialog box, nor will any menu item be accessible. The temp increases as it's stuck in some loop. The case area near F3 and F4 gets very hot. I installed the Fan Control Pref Pane to force the fans on earlier.
So, still under the assumption that it's a software issue. I did an Archive and Install of Leopard, and upgraded the OS using 10.5.7 combo update. Sadly, the system freezes still occur at random, but still mostly when animating dialog boxes. The last one was when I tried to attach a file in Mail.app (and then again while trying to open the system profiler while writing this post).
The only way out of the freeze is to give the one-finger-salute to the power button, and power down.
At first I thought this might be a software issue like a corrupt file, poorly written driver or kernel extension, or memory leak. But now, I'm concerned that this might be a sign of a failing GPU as the 8600M GT GPUs had some manufacturing trouble.

I just updated last evening to 10.5.7 on my 24" White iMac (late 2006) and am having the same issue. I did it first on my 12" G4 iBook without any issues for a week so I went ahead and updated the iMac. I'm using it now with kid gloves. I've disabled Default Folder and DragThing to see if they are incompatible (no updates for either were available at this time) but I also have a feeling my Drobo storage device might be related because Spotlight was indexing after the update. I hadn't used spotlight much because I don't think it was in fact indexing the Drobo before the update. My search results seemed limited to the internal drive. The Drobo firmware and utility are both up-to-date as well.

Spinning Beach Ball of Death (Mainly from idle)

Hey folks..
This might be a long one, so please bare with me !
After about 3 fabulous faultless years of using my Macbook Pro, recently I've had lots of issues with the dreaded spinning beach ball of death !
I wish I could say I was able to narrow it down to one application or one specific event, but sadly it's proving to not be that easy!
Recently, the SBBOD has appeared MOSTLY when the macbook is sitting there idle. I tried all the suggestions I could find on the forums - ie not putting the HDD to sleep, etc etc.
What generally happens, is I come back to the computer - and try to open an application (doesn't matter which one) and it bounces in the dock, and then the SBBOD appears, I can usually get to try and open other apps as this is happening, but in 20 seconds or so - everything is frozen except the mouse. I have tried leaving it for 5 mins, 10mins 2 hours, but in the end the only option is to manually turn off and swtich it back on. I thought it might have been just my user, but I tested when leaving it idle when other users logged on, and in the end - the same SBBOD
This started happening about 3 weeks ago, when I was on Leopard (not snow).
I tried to make sure the HDD was ok - so I install the SmartReporter app to monitor it - and nothing is pointing towards a HDD failure? SMART status is always showing ok.
In the end, I backed up and formatted the HDD. I bought a copy of Snow Leopard and did a total fresh install. I didn't migrate any applications, just user data and re-install all Applications etc.
I have Clean My Mac installed and MainMenu which runs all the repair permissions, and I keep it really clean and efficient since the fresh install - but still, the SBBOD is coming whenever I have the machine idle. I tried also, to install the smcFanControl to cool the CPU incase, it was over heating and then failing??
So, in conclusion (thanks for reading this far !!) I really don't know what else to do?
Seeing as it happened to all users logged in, I can assume it's not user specific?
Meaning it could very likely actually be a HDD issue?
Are there any good free diagnostic tools to see if it is a HDD issue?
I'm almost tempted to buy a new HDD, and install that and not use the Migration Assistant to bring files across, but to just manually bring my information and documents.. thus creating the user from scratch? Are there any opinions on the Samsung SpinPoint M7's ?
Honestly - I'm at a loss here, I can't see what else I can do?
It's a Macbook Pro MA609LL from 2007 3Gb RAM, with a Samsung 500GB HDD (added way back in Nov 2008)
Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
CIAO!
Alessandro

I would try running the extended version of your Apple Hardware Test.
It's not perfect but may flag something.
DALE

Spinning Beach Ball of Death

I'm always geting the Spinning Beach Ball of Death, yet instead of it being from having heavy stuff open or not enough RAM, it's as simple as coming out of a screen saver, or clicking a forum button on a browser that can cause it. It doesn't stop, instead it just keeps going until you can do nothing, and can only restart the iMac. Some times you can move the curser around, yet Finder doesn't open the Force Quit and the shortcut doesn't work.
How do you stop geting the SBBD??!! And it's not from a lack of RAM, as I got the max of 4 GB, and just having Firefox and a few much smaller applications open don't use even close to that much RAM. I got 72 Gigs of space left on the man harddrive, so it's not from having too little space there.
Here's some logs from right when the last freeze and restart occured.
May 20 22:34:30 localhost com.apple.launchd[1]: *** launchd[1] has started up. ***
May 20 22:34:36 localhost DirectoryService[15]: Improper shutdown detected
May 20 22:34:42 localhost fseventsd[33]: event logs in /.fseventsd out of sync with volume. destroying old logs. (40189 13 40718)
May 20 22:34:42 localhost fseventsd[33]: log dir: /.fseventsd getting new uuid: 49B9789C-90E1-4252-94D3-C38B1CAA1B9A
May 20 22:34:45 localhost bootlog[40]: BOOT_TIME: 1305956069 0
May 20 22:35:00 localhost blued[41]: Apple Bluetooth daemon started
May 20 22:35:00 localhost mDNSResponder[28]: mDNSResponder mDNSResponder-258.18 (Jan 18 2011 20:25:03) starting
May 20 22:35:00 localhost com.apple.usbmuxd[20]: usbmuxd-211 built on Jan 13 2011 at 04:20:21 on Jan 13 2011 at 04:20:21, running 64 bit
May 20 22:35:02 localhost /System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/MacOS/loginwindow[29]: Login Window Application Started
May 20 22:35:02 localhost configd[13]: Sleep - Filtered Sleep Failure Report - Power Button Shutdown - Apps Failure
May 20 22:35:02 localhost configd[13]: bootp_session_transmit: bpf_write(en1) failed: Network is down (50)
May 20 22:35:02 localhost configd[13]: DHCP en1: INIT transmit failed
May 20 22:35:02 localhost configd[13]: network configuration changed.
May 20 22:35:03 localhost fseventsd[33]: event logs in /Volumes/Movie files/.fseventsd out of sync with volume. destroying old logs. (40015 1 40739)
May 20 22:35:15 jesse-smiths-imac-2 PhoneHome[46]: Fri May 20 22:35:15 jesse-smiths-imac-2.local imagesnap[157] <Warning>: 3891612: (connectAndCheck) Untrusted apps are not allowed to connect to or launch Window Server before login.
May 20 22:35:15 jesse-smiths-imac-2 PhoneHome[46]: Fri May 20 22:35:15 jesse-smiths-imac-2.local imagesnap[157] <Error>: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
May 20 22:35:15 jesse-smiths-imac-2 /var/phonehome/imagesnap[157]: _RegisterApplication(), FAILED TO establish the default connection to the WindowServer, _CGSDefaultConnection() is NULL.
May 20 22:35:15 jesse-smiths-imac-2 PhoneHome[46]: _RegisterApplication(), FAILED TO establish the default connection to the WindowServer, _CGSDefaultConnection() is NULL.
May 20 22:35:18 jesse-smiths-imac-2 loginwindow[29]: Login Window Started Security Agent
May 20 22:35:18 jesse-smiths-imac-2 configd[13]: network configuration changed.
May 20 22:35:18 jesse-smiths-imac-2 loginwindow[29]: Login Window - Returned from Security Agent
May 20 22:35:18 jesse-smiths-imac-2 loginwindow[29]: USER_PROCESS: 29 console
May 20 22:35:19 jesse-smiths-imac-2 com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[173] (com.apple.ReportCrash): Falling back to default Mach exception handler. Could not find: com.apple.ReportCrash.Self
May 20 22:35:28 jesse-smiths-imac-2 com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[173] (com.apple.Kerberos.renew.plist[194]): Exited with exit code: 1
May 20 22:35:37 jesse-smiths-imac-2 WindowServer[90]: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
May 20 22:35:37 jesse-smiths-imac-2 com.apple.WindowServer[90]: Fri May 20 22:35:37 jesse-smiths-imac-2.local WindowServer[90] <Error>: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
5/20/11 10:34:30 PM    com.apple.launchd[1]    *** launchd[1] has started up. ***
5/20/11 10:35:09 PM    com.apple.SystemStarter[21]    Starting Broadband Optimizer
5/20/11 10:35:09 PM    com.apple.SystemStarter[21]    Starting APC PowerChute Personal Edition daemon
5/20/11 10:35:09 PM    com.apple.SystemStarter[21]    -S
5/20/11 10:35:09 PM    com.apple.SystemStarter[21]    Starting HP IO Monitor
5/20/11 10:35:09 PM    com.apple.SystemStarter[21]    /usr/sbin/comapcpowerchutepe start: comapcpowerchute starting...
5/20/11 10:35:09 PM    com.apple.SystemStarter[21]    Starting HP Trap Monitor
5/20/11 10:35:09 PM    com.apple.SystemStarter[21]    /Library/StartupItems/HP Trap Monitor/HP Trap Monitor: line 15: /Library/Printers/hp/hpio/HPIO Trap Monitor.app/Contents/MacOS/HPIO Trap Monitor: No such file or directory
5/20/11 10:35:15 PM    PhoneHome[46]    Fri May 20 22:35:15 jesse-smiths-imac-2.local imagesnap[157] <Warning>: 3891612: (connectAndCheck) Untrusted apps are not allowed to connect to or launch Window Server before login.
5/20/11 10:35:15 PM    PhoneHome[46]    Fri May 20 22:35:15 jesse-smiths-imac-2.local imagesnap[157] <Error>: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
5/20/11 10:35:15 PM    PhoneHome[46]    _RegisterApplication(), FAILED TO establish the default connection to the WindowServer, _CGSDefaultConnection() is NULL.
5/20/11 10:35:19 PM    com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[173]    (com.apple.ReportCrash) Falling back to default Mach exception handler. Could not find: com.apple.ReportCrash.Self
5/20/11 10:35:28 PM    com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[173]    (com.apple.Kerberos.renew.plist[194]) Exited with exit code: 1
5/20/11 10:35:37 PM    com.apple.WindowServer[90]    Fri May 20 22:35:37 jesse-smiths-imac-2.local WindowServer[90] <Error>: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
Process:         mds [27]
Path:            /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/Metadat a.framework/Versions/A/Support/mds
Identifier:      mds
Version:         ??? (???)
Code Type:       X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [1]
Date/Time:       2011-05-20 10:48:46.962 -0700
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.6.7 (10J869)
Report Version: 6
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 3 Dispatch queue: Main compaction scheduler
Application Specific Information:
/SourceCache/Spotlight/Spotlight-507.15/index/ContentIndex/ContentIndex.c:1443: failed assertion 'false' (hfs, t: 0x11, st: 0x1, f: 0x480d000) corrupt index, will rebuild
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: npvhash=4095
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: PAE enabled
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: 64 bit mode enabled
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: Darwin Kernel Version 10.7.0: Sat Jan 29 15:17:16 PST 2011; root:xnu-1504.9.37~1/RELEASE_I386
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: vm_page_bootstrap: 1015439 free pages and 24945 wired pages
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: standard timeslicing quantum is 10000 us
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: mig_table_max_displ = 73
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=0 LocalApicId=0 Enabled
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=1 LocalApicId=1 Enabled
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: calling mpo_policy_init for TMSafetyNet
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: Security policy loaded: Safety net for Time Machine (TMSafetyNet)
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: calling mpo_policy_init for Quarantine
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: Security policy loaded: Quarantine policy (Quarantine)
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: calling mpo_policy_init for Sandbox
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: Security policy loaded: Seatbelt sandbox policy (Sandbox)
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: MAC Framework successfully initialized
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: using 16384 buffer headers and 4096 cluster IO buffer headers
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: IOAPIC: Version 0x20 Vectors 64:87
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: ACPI: System State [S0 S3 S4 S5] (S3)
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement: initialization complete
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: Sleep failure code 0x00000000 0x12000000
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: mbinit: done (64 MB memory set for mbuf pool)
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: rooting via boot-uuid from /chosen: 935CF64F-D6FC-3D58-8ECE-8AC8BCCEB438
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: Waiting on <dict ID="0"><key>IOProviderClass</key><string ID="1">IOResources</string><key>IOResourceMatch</key><string ID="2">boot-uuid-media</string></dict>
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: com.apple.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib kmod start
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: com.apple.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib load succeeded
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: AppleIntelCPUPowerManagementClient: ready
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: BTCOEXIST off
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: wl0: Broadcom BCM4328 802.11 Wireless Controller
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: 5.10.131.36
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: FireWire (OHCI) Lucent ID 5901 built-in now active, GUID 001ff3fffe2ba406; max speed s800.
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: Got boot device = IOService:/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0/AppleACPIPCI/SATA@1F,2/AppleICH8AHCI/PR T0@0/IOAHCIDevice@0/AppleAHCIDiskDriver/IOAHCIBlockStorageDevice/IOBlockStorageD river/Hitachi HDS721010KLA330 Media/IOGUIDPartitionScheme/Apple_HFS_Untitled_2@5
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: BSD root: disk0s5, major 14, minor 5
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: jnl: unknown-dev: replay_journal: from: 16665600 to: 1036800 (joffset 0x322000)
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: USBMSC Identifier (non-unique): 2008070800001349 0x928 0x4 0x0
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: jnl: unknown-dev: journal replay done.
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: hfs: Removed 4 orphaned / unlinked files and 0 directories
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: AppleYukon2: Marvell Yukon Gigabit Adapter 88E8055 Singleport Copper SA
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: AppleYukon2: RxRingSize <= 1024, TxRingSize 256, RX_MAX_LE 1024, TX_MAX_LE 768, ST_MAX_LE 3328
May 20 22:34:36 localhost kernel[0]: systemShutdown false
May 20 22:34:47 localhost kernel[0]: yukon: Ethernet address 00:1f:5b:f3:2d:f8
May 20 22:34:47 localhost kernel[0]: AirPort_Brcm43224: Ethernet address 00:1f:5b:c6:5c:bd
May 20 22:34:47 localhost kernel[0]: IO80211Controller::dataLinkLayerAttachComplete(): adding AppleEFINVRAM notification
May 20 22:35:00 localhost kernel[0]: AirPort: Link Down on en1. Reason 8 (Disassociated because station leaving).
May 20 22:35:01 localhost kernel[0]: Waiting for DSMOS...
May 20 22:35:02 localhost kernel[0]: Previous Shutdown Cause: 3
May 20 22:35:02 localhost kernel[0]: Warning - com.Cycling74.driver.Soundflower declares no kernel dependencies; using com.apple.kernel.6.0.
May 20 22:35:02 localhost kernel[0]: NVDANV50HAL loaded and registered.
May 20 22:35:02 localhost kernel[0]: DSMOS has arrived
May 20 22:35:02 localhost kernel[0]: IPv6 packet filtering initialized, default to accept, logging disabled
May 20 22:35:02 localhost kernel[0]: jnl: disk0s2: replay_journal: from: 10576896 to: 11386880 (joffset 0xfa2000)
May 20 22:35:02 localhost kernel[0]: jnl: disk1s1: replay_journal: from: 28380160 to: 29163008 (joffset 0x1c30000)
May 20 22:35:02 localhost kernel[0]: jnl: disk1s1: journal replay done.
May 20 22:35:04 jesse-smiths-imac-2 kernel[0]: jnl: disk1s2: replay_journal: from: 8115712 to: 510464 (joffset 0xf1000)
May 20 22:35:05 jesse-smiths-imac-2 kernel[0]: jnl: disk0s2: journal replay done.
May 20 22:35:05 jesse-smiths-imac-2 kernel[0]: jnl: disk1s2: journal replay done.
May 20 22:35:05 jesse-smiths-imac-2 kernel[0]: jnl: disk0s3: replay_journal: from: 8181760 to: 9530880 (joffset 0x5af000)
May 20 22:35:05 jesse-smiths-imac-2 kernel[0]: Ethernet [AppleYukon2]: Link up on en0, 1-Gigabit, Full-duplex, Symmetric flow-control, Debug [796d,af48,0de1,0200,cde1,7800]
May 20 22:35:06 jesse-smiths-imac-2 kernel[0]: jnl: disk0s3: journal replay done.
May 20 22:35:06 jesse-smiths-imac-2 kernel[0]: jnl: disk0s4: replay_journal: from: 12537856 to: 13320704 (joffset 0x322000)
May 20 22:35:06 jesse-smiths-imac-2 kernel[0]: jnl: disk0s4: journal replay done.
May 20 22:35:07 jesse-smiths-imac-2 kernel[0]: jnl: disk0s6: replay_journal: from: 7915520 to: 310272 (joffset 0x18c000)
May 20 22:35:08 jesse-smiths-imac-2 kernel[0]: jnl: disk0s6: journal replay done.
May 20 22:35:08 jesse-smiths-imac-2 kernel[0]: Auth result for: 18:f4:6a:5b:66:cf MAC AUTH succeeded
May 20 22:35:08 jesse-smiths-imac-2 kernel[0]: AirPort: Link Up on en1
May 20 22:35:09 jesse-smiths-imac-2 kernel[0]: AirPort: RSN handshake complete on en1
May 20 22:35:09 jesse-smiths-imac-2 kernel[0]: jnl: disk2s2: replay_journal: from: 58208256 to: 58503168 (joffset 0x4096e000)
May 20 22:35:09 jesse-smiths-imac-2 kernel[0]: jnl: disk2s2: journal replay done.
May 20 22:35:12 jesse-smiths-imac-2 kernel[0]: BootCache: hit rate below threshold (3266 hits on 6533 lookups)

Nope. But when OS X Lion came out, the forever spinning beach ball stopped. I have yet to be forced to power re-start my iMac because of this since upgrading to OS X Lion. Now only programs generate it, when using a lot of memory.

I have a 4 yr. old iMac. I recently got a trojan on it that sent out emails to my address book. I got Norton Internet Security for Mac, and now my Mac is running slow, with way too many spinning beach balls of death. Was it a mistake to install Norton?

I have a 4 yr. old iMac. I recently got a trojan on it that sent out emails to my address book. I got Norton Internet Security for Mac, and now my Mac is running slow, with way too many spinning beach balls of death. Was it a mistake to install Norton?

yankeecat wrote:
I have a 4 yr. old iMac. I recently got a trojan on it that sent out emails to my address book.
There is no such Trojan or other malware known today that will do that using OS X nor has there ever been one. The most probable explanation is that somebody hacked into your e-mail account on the server, so you should change that password to something stronger right away. If it had come from your Mac then there would almost certainly be copies of those messages in your Sent Mail mailbox.

Spinning beach ball of death in iTunes

Everytime that I open iTunes, I get the dreaded spinning beach ball of death. All I have to do is move the cursor and it appears. The sbbod stays around for about 30 seconds or so and then goes away. If I use the search function, it reappears. If I play a song, the song plays ok, but if I try to make any sort of menu selection, the sbbod always reappears and hangs out for a while. I have also noticed that the fan comes on and wants to stay on whenever I have iTunes open. To get the fan to shut off, I have to force quit iTunes.
I have a Macbook circa 2008 running Mac OSX 10.6.8 with all updates installed (except for a Security 2012-001 that refuses to install) I have 147 GB of 250 GB of free space on the hard drive.
Anyone have any suggestions on how to get iTunes to behave like it used to? It used to just work with no problems and no sbbod.
Thanks,
dhruid

I'm having the same problem. And it tells me that sync is not activated and asks me if want to activate sync. I say 'yes' and it then say it cannot activate sync would I like to 'override.' This just started happening this week. And it's very annoying. It's as if something is accessing my iphone and keeping iTunes from accessing the phone a while. If I wait long enough it shows up in iTunes. I'm running Symantic Norton Anti Virus. My first guess is there's a virus. Or Norton Anti Virus is trying to access the phone for some reason. I just noticed you now have the option of automatically checking the iphone for virus when connected. But when I deactivate the auto scan of the iphone option the ball still spins for minutes and minutes. I've spent HOURS trying to figure this out. Apple has got to help. I've not installed anything else new to my system in the past few months.

Spinning Beach Ball of Death and Kernal Panics - Capacitors?

Hi,
I got this email from my mother. This is her computer, not mine. I'm technically adept, so I'd be able to help her. I'm not sure this is actually a kernal panic, or if it's another issue such as capacitors?
================
Lately sometimes (at least every couple of days) when I first turn on my iMac G5 (1.6 GHz, 1.25 GB RAM, OS 10.3.9) after it's been shut off all night long, I get the colored spinning beach ball of death for a minute or so. Then the background on the monitor turns grey-green and in a box in the middle of the screen is "You need to restart your computer. Hold down the Power button for several seconds or press the Restart button" - this is written in four languages. I assume this is a kernal panic. When I restart the computer it's okay.
When I turned it on yesterday, however, the monitor was blue, but not normal blue as it was all "wavy." The dock only appeared about halfway up from the bottom of the screen, and only the bottom part of "Mail" appeared - no Mailbox or anything else. I turned it off with the power button and it was then all right.
Today the same thing happened, but I didn't get anything on the screen, except it was a "wavy blue" so I again used the power button to turn it off, and then when I restarted it it came on fine.
I've also noticed that the computer is much slower these past few weeks than previously, especially when using Safari. I have also seen the spinning beach ball of death in black instead of the usual colors.
I have not installed any new programs lately, nor ran any Software Updates lately. I have recently repaired my Permissions.
================
Thank you in advance for any suggestions and advice.
Robbi

Hi,
Here is the kernal panic log. Thanks. We have done Dr Smoke's Resolving Kernal Panics.
Mon Aug 18 18:46:13 2008
Unresolved kernel trap(cpu 0): 0x300 - Data access DAR=0x00000000449D234E PC=0x0000000000BA1464
Latest crash info for cpu 0:
Exception state (sv=0x2EB9C780)
PC=0x00BA1464; MSR=0x00009030; DAR=0x449D234E; DSISR=0x40000000; LR=0x00BA144C; R1=0x18E4BAD0; XCP=0x0000000C (0x300 - Data access)
Backtrace:
0x00BA2F28 0x00BA1FA0 0x00B9B3CC 0x00B8B020 0x0027E650 0x00280324 0x0007AC48 0x00021668
0x0001BCE8 0x0001C0F0 0x00094318 0x00670065
backtrace terminated - frame not mapped or invalid: 0xBFFEE490
Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.GeForce(3.4.2)@0xb84000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(1.4)@0x398000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(1.3.5)@0x436000
dependency: com.apple.NVDAResman(3.4.2)@0x46c000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(1.3.5)@0x456000
com.apple.NVDAResman(3.4.2)@0x46c000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(1.4)@0x398000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(1.3.5)@0x436000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(1.3.5)@0x456000
Proceeding back via exception chain:
Exception state (sv=0x2EB9C780)
previously dumped as "Latest" state. skipping...
Exception state (sv=0x2F4D8A00)
PC=0x90007878; MSR=0x0200F030; DAR=0x04FAE000; DSISR=0x42000000; LR=0x900073F8; R1=0xBFFEE490; XCP=0x00000030 (0xC00 - System call)
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 7.9.0:
Wed Mar 30 20:11:17 PST 2005; root:xnu/xnu-517.12.7.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC
panic(cpu 0): 0x300 - Data access
Latest stack backtrace for cpu 0:
Backtrace:
0x00083498 0x0008397C 0x0001EDA4 0x00090C38 0x0009402C
Proceeding back via exception chain:
Exception state (sv=0x2EB9C780)
PC=0x00BA1464; MSR=0x00009030; DAR=0x449D234E; DSISR=0x40000000; LR=0x00BA144C; R1=0x18E4BAD0; XCP=0x0000000C (0x300 - Data access)
Backtrace:
0x00BA2F28 0x00BA1FA0 0x00B9B3CC 0x00B8B020 0x0027E650 0x00280324 0x0007AC48 0x00021668
0x0001BCE8 0x0001C0F0 0x00094318 0x00670065
backtrace terminated - frame not mapped or invalid: 0xBFFEE490
Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.GeForce(3.4.2)@0xb84000
dependency: com.app
Wed Aug 20 07:46:37 2008
Unresolved kernel trap(cpu 0): 0x300 - Data access DAR=0x0000000044BF434E PC=0x0000000000BA1464
Latest crash info for cpu 0:
Exception state (sv=0x2EE8F280)
PC=0x00BA1464; MSR=0x00009030; DAR=0x44BF434E; DSISR=0x40000000; LR=0x00BA144C; R1=0x18E23AD0; XCP=0x0000000C (0x300 - Data access)
Backtrace:
0x00BA2F28 0x00BA1FA0 0x00B9B3CC 0x00B8B020 0x0027E650 0x00280324 0x0007AC48 0x00021668
0x0001BCE8 0x0001C0F0 0x00094318 0x00000000
backtrace terminated - frame not mapped or invalid: 0xBFFEE5A0
Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.GeForce(3.4.2)@0xb84000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(1.4)@0x398000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(1.3.5)@0x436000
dependency: com.apple.NVDAResman(3.4.2)@0x46c000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(1.3.5)@0x456000
Proceeding back via exception chain:
Exception state (sv=0x2EE8F280)
previously dumped as "Latest" state. skipping...
Exception state (sv=0x2EE8BC80)
PC=0x90007878; MSR=0x0200F030; DAR=0xE12C4000; DSISR=0x42000000; LR=0x900073F8; R1=0xBFFEE5A0; XCP=0x00000030 (0xC00 - System call)
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 7.9.0:
Wed Mar 30 20:11:17 PST 2005; root:xnu/xnu-517.12.7.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC
panic(cpu 0): 0x300 - Data access
Latest stack backtrace for cpu 0:
Backtrace:
0x00083498 0x0008397C 0x0001EDA4 0x00090C38 0x0009402C
Proceeding back via exception chain:
Exception state (sv=0x2EE8F280)
PC=0x00BA1464; MSR=0x00009030; DAR=0x44BF434E; DSISR=0x40000000; LR=0x00BA144C; R1=0x18E23AD0; XCP=0x0000000C (0x300 - Data access)
Backtrace:
0x00BA2F28 0x00BA1FA0 0x00B9B3CC 0x00B8B020 0x0027E650 0x00280324 0x0007AC48 0x00021668
0x0001BCE8 0x0001C0F0 0x00094318 0x00000000
backtrace terminated - frame not mapped or invalid: 0xBFFEE5A0
Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.GeForce(3.4.2)@0xb84000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(1.4)@0x398000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(1.3.5)@0x436000
dependency: com.apple.NVDAResman(3.4.2)@0x46c000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(1.3.5)@0x456000
Exception st`
Tue Aug 26 07:36:40 2008
Unresolved kernel trap(cpu 0): 0x300 - Data access DAR=0x000000004479434E PC=0x0000000000BA1464
Latest crash info for cpu 0:
Exception state (sv=0x2EB19500)
PC=0x00BA1464; MSR=0x00009030; DAR=0x4479434E; DSISR=0x40000000; LR=0x00BA144C; R1=0x18D53AD0; XCP=0x0000000C (0x300 - Data access)
Backtrace:
0x00BA2F28 0x00BA1FA0 0x00B9B3CC 0x00B8B020 0x0027E650 0x00280324 0x0007AC48 0x00021668
0x0001BCE8 0x0001C0F0 0x00094318 0x00670044
backtrace terminated - frame not mapped or invalid: 0xBFFEE5A0
Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.GeForce(3.4.2)@0xb84000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(1.4)@0x398000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(1.3.5)@0x436000
dependency: com.apple.NVDAResman(3.4.2)@0x46c000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(1.3.5)@0x456000
com.apple.NVDAResman(3.4.2)@0x46c000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(1.4)@0x398000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(1.3.5)@0x436000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(1.3.5)@0x456000
Proceeding back via exception chain:
Exception state (sv=0x2EB19500)
previously dumped as "Latest" state. skipping...
Exception state (sv=0x2EE33280)
PC=0x90007878; MSR=0x0200F030; DAR=0xE12C4000; DSISR=0x42000000; LR=0x900073F8; R1=0xBFFEE5A0; XCP=0x00000030 (0xC00 - System call)
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 7.9.0:
Wed Mar 30 20:11:17 PST 2005; root:xnu/xnu-517.12.7.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC
panic(cpu 0): 0x300 - Data access
Latest stack backtrace for cpu 0:
Backtrace:
0x00083498 0x0008397C 0x0001EDA4 0x00090C38 0x0009402C
Proceeding back via exception chain:
Exception state (sv=0x2EB19500)
PC=0x00BA1464; MSR=0x00009030; DAR=0x4479434E; DSISR=0x40000000; LR=0x00BA144C; R1=0x18D53AD0; XCP=0x0000000C (0x300 - Data access)
Backtrace:
0x00BA2F28 0x00BA1FA0 0x00B9B3CC 0x00B8B020 0x0027E650 0x00280324 0x0007AC48 0x00021668
0x0001BCE8 0x0001C0F0 0x00094318 0x00670044
backtrace terminated - frame not mapped or invalid: 0xBFFEE5A0
Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.GeForce(3.4.2)@0xb84000
dependency: com.app
Wed Aug 27 07:21:17 2008
Unresolved kernel trap(cpu 0): 0x300 - Data access DAR=0x000000004491034E PC=0x0000000000BA1464
Latest crash info for cpu 0:
Exception state (sv=0x2EBC7A00)
PC=0x00BA1464; MSR=0x00009030; DAR=0x4491034E; DSISR=0x40000000; LR=0x00BA144C; R1=0x18E6BAD0; XCP=0x0000000C (0x300 - Data access)
Backtrace:
0x00BA2F28 0x00BA1FA0 0x00B9B3CC 0x00B8B020 0x0027E650 0x00280324 0x0007AC48 0x00021668
0x0001BCE8 0x0001C0F0 0x00094318 0x00090009
backtrace terminated - frame not mapped or invalid: 0xBFFEE5A0
Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.GeForce(3.4.2)@0xb84000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(1.4)@0x398000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(1.3.5)@0x436000
dependency: com.apple.NVDAResman(3.4.2)@0x46c000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(1.3.5)@0x456000
Proceeding back via exception chain:
Exception state (sv=0x2EBC7A00)
previously dumped as "Latest" state. skipping...
Exception state (sv=0x2EE8DC80)
PC=0x90007878; MSR=0x0200F030; DAR=0xE12B9000; DSISR=0x42000000; LR=0x900073F8; R1=0xBFFEE5A0; XCP=0x00000030 (0xC00 - System call)
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 7.9.0:
Wed Mar 30 20:11:17 PST 2005; root:xnu/xnu-517.12.7.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC
panic(cpu 0): 0x300 - Data access
Latest stack backtrace for cpu 0:
Backtrace:
0x00083498 0x0008397C 0x0001EDA4 0x00090C38 0x0009402C
Proceeding back via exception chain:
Exception state (sv=0x2EBC7A00)
PC=0x00BA1464; MSR=0x00009030; DAR=0x4491034E; DSISR=0x40000000; LR=0x00BA144C; R1=0x18E6BAD0; XCP=0x0000000C (0x300 - Data access)
Backtrace:
0x00BA2F28 0x00BA1FA0 0x00B9B3CC 0x00B8B020 0x0027E650 0x00280324 0x0007AC48 0x00021668
0x0001BCE8 0x0001C0F0 0x00094318 0x00090009
backtrace terminated - frame not mapped or invalid: 0xBFFEE5A0
Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.GeForce(3.4.2)@0xb84000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(1.4)@0x398000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(1.3.5)@0x436000
dependency: com.apple.NVDAResman(3.4.2)@0x46c000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(1.3.5)@0x456000
Exception st`
Sun Aug 31 07:29:43 2008
Unresolved kernel trap(cpu 0): 0x300 - Data access DAR=0x0000000044AF434E PC=0x0000000000BA154C
Latest crash info for cpu 0:
Exception state (sv=0x2EE8BA00)
PC=0x00BA154C; MSR=0x00009030; DAR=0x44AF434E; DSISR=0x40000000; LR=0x00BA1FA0; R1=0x18D4BAD0; XCP=0x0000000C (0x300 - Data access)
Backtrace:
0x00BA2F28 0x00BA1FA0 0x00B9B3CC 0x00B8B020 0x0027E650 0x00280324 0x0007AC48 0x00021668
0x0001BCE8 0x0001C0F0 0x00094318 0x00090009
backtrace terminated - frame not mapped or invalid: 0xBFFEE5A0
Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.GeForce(3.4.2)@0xb84000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(1.4)@0x398000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(1.3.5)@0x436000
dependency: com.apple.NVDAResman(3.4.2)@0x46c000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(1.3.5)@0x456000
Proceeding back via exception chain:
Exception state (sv=0x2EE8BA00)
previously dumped as "Latest" state. skipping...
Exception state (sv=0x2EE86500)
PC=0x90007878; MSR=0x0200F030; DAR=0xE12E3000; DSISR=0x42000000; LR=0x900073F8; R1=0xBFFEE5A0; XCP=0x00000030 (0xC00 - System call)
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 7.9.0:
Wed Mar 30 20:11:17 PST 2005; root:xnu/xnu-517.12.7.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC
panic(cpu 0): 0x300 - Data access
Latest stack backtrace for cpu 0:
Backtrace:
0x00083498 0x0008397C 0x0001EDA4 0x00090C38 0x0009402C
Proceeding back via exception chain:
Exception state (sv=0x2EE8BA00)
PC=0x00BA154C; MSR=0x00009030; DAR=0x44AF434E; DSISR=0x40000000; LR=0x00BA1FA0; R1=0x18D4BAD0; XCP=0x0000000C (0x300 - Data access)
Backtrace:
0x00BA2F28 0x00BA1FA0 0x00B9B3CC 0x00B8B020 0x0027E650 0x00280324 0x0007AC48 0x00021668
0x0001BCE8 0x0001C0F0 0x00094318 0x00090009
backtrace terminated - frame not mapped or invalid: 0xBFFEE5A0
Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.GeForce(3.4.2)@0xb84000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(1.4)@0x398000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(1.3.5)@0x436000
dependency: com.apple.NVDAResman(3.4.2)@0x46c000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(1.3.5)@0x456000
Exception st`
Tue Sep 2 07:56:56 2008
Unresolved kernel trap(cpu 0): 0x300 - Data access DAR=0x00000000444D634E PC=0x0000000000BA1B58
Latest crash info for cpu 0:
Exception state (sv=0x2EE8C500)
PC=0x00BA1B58; MSR=0x00009030; DAR=0x444D634E; DSISR=0x40000000; LR=0x00B8B5E0; R1=0x18D6BBB0; XCP=0x0000000C (0x300 - Data access)
Backtrace:
0x00BA1570 0x00B8B5E0 0x0027E650 0x00280324 0x0007AC48 0x00021668 0x0001BCE8 0x0001C0F0
0x00094318 0x00090009
backtrace terminated - frame not mapped or invalid: 0xBFFFDD90
Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.GeForce(3.4.2)@0xb84000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(1.4)@0x398000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(1.3.5)@0x436000
dependency: com.apple.NVDAResman(3.4.2)@0x46c000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(1.3.5)@0x456000
Proceeding back via exception chain:
Exception state (sv=0x2EE8C500)
previously dumped as "Latest" state. skipping...
Exception state (sv=0x2F795C80)
PC=0x90007878; MSR=0x0200F030; DAR=0x07A44000; DSISR=0x42000000; LR=0x900073F8; R1=0xBFFFDD90; XCP=0x00000030 (0xC00 - System call)
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 7.9.0:
Wed Mar 30 20:11:17 PST 2005; root:xnu/xnu-517.12.7.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC
panic(cpu 0): 0x300 - Data access
Latest stack backtrace for cpu 0:
Backtrace:
0x00083498 0x0008397C 0x0001EDA4 0x00090C38 0x0009402C
Proceeding back via exception chain:
Exception state (sv=0x2EE8C500)
PC=0x00BA1B58; MSR=0x00009030; DAR=0x444D634E; DSISR=0x40000000; LR=0x00B8B5E0; R1=0x18D6BBB0; XCP=0x0000000C (0x300 - Data access)
Backtrace:
0x00BA1570 0x00B8B5E0 0x0027E650 0x00280324 0x0007AC48 0x00021668 0x0001BCE8 0x0001C0F0
0x00094318 0x00090009
backtrace terminated - frame not mapped or invalid: 0xBFFFDD90
Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.GeForce(3.4.2)@0xb84000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(1.4)@0x398000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(1.3.5)@0x436000
dependency: com.apple.NVDAResman(3.4.2)@0x46c000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(1.3.5)@0x456000
Exception state (sv=0x2F795C80)
PC=0x90007878; MSR0

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