Spinning beach ball seen often in iTunes

I am see the beach ball on various occasions, more often than not, when updating apps, or syncing my iPhones. Is this a corrupted iTunes or is this normal?
If it is something that I should reload iTunes (11.4 (18)) how do I delete properly and reinstall iTunes? Will I loose the backup's for my iPhones if I do this?
Thank you

I appreciate your comments, but I would think after all this time and versions that iTunes would not "hang". I would reply to you that, it does the beach ball each time I sync. This morning, after updating to iOS8, one iPhone5 was wiped clean and I had to restore, and there was no beach ball, but a stall in syncing "all" the apps. It would not sync all, hang up for 15-30 minutes so I had to eject, and even force quit iTunes after re-attempting to sync repeatedly over an 1.5 hours. Finally I had to remove apps from the iPhone that did not sync/restore over after the update to iOS8 and then it synced all to the phone. I just think there is a bug in the OS or iTunes that does not let it "flow" properly, and yes too many conflicts. As for my computer being too busy with other calcs, I have 64GB Ram and don't find any beach balls except in iTunes. Thanks.

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When you see a beachball cursor or the slowness is especially bad, note the exact time: hour, minute, second.
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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 and start typing the name.
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.
Each message in the log begins with the date and time when it was entered. Scroll back to the time you noted above.
Select the messages entered from then until the end of the episode, or until they start to repeat, whichever comes first.
Copy the messages 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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My MacBook Pro mid 2012 laptop continuously lags on every web site and I get the spinning beach ball very often but when I log in as a guest, everything works fine. What should I do to fix this?

My MacBook Pro mid 2012 laptop continuously lags on every web site and I get the spinning beach ball very often but when I log in as a guest, everything works fine. What should I do to fix this?

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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.
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I dont know what happened latley here the last few days i cant do much of anything for long before i get the spinning beach ball. It drives me crazy because i am typing or doing something and i have to stop wait for it to go away then i can do something for a few minutes then it comes up again and i have to wait again.
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boot to single user mode. (boot holding comand s) hold untill u get to a black screen w/ white type.
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Tried to upgrade to iOS 5, and when I initially connected the iPhone to iTunes, I got the spinning ball. I found if I waited a long time, then it would connect. So I installed iOS5, which involves a very time consuming 'restore' step. At the end, none of the non-Apple apps would launch and no songs/podcasts/etc were on the iPhone.
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...especially when I am entering information into forms. The ball can appear almost every keystroke.

I feel your terrible pain. Waiting for answers?

Spinning beach ball after hard drive upgrade

Im running a macbook pro i7 2.2ghz 8gb ram version 10.6.8 SL
I recently upgraded my 128gb ssd to a 512gb ssd drive. I cloned the drive to new drive and ever since then, I get the spinning beach ball very often whereas I never got it prior to the hard drive upgrade. Is there anything I can check or do to eliminate the freeze ups? It is VERY annoying. Or do I just need to do a fresh install on the new hard drive.
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ITunes spinning beach ball with update

I haven't seen this anywhere else on the net yet:
I'm having a problem with CPU hog when updating podcasts. iTunes has no problem when I just run the program (offline or if I don't have it automatically update podcasts). But once I set it to update or hit refresh I'm sunk.
Before the update (which I could of sworn I updated once before, but it just asked me to update again & it popped up in software update...) I never had a problem. Now iTunes spinning beach balls me every time.
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HOWEVER, when looking in the Activity Monitor it actually says that iTunes is using 102% of my CPU! How can that be???
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Did some more testing & it appears that it only happens when I update video podcasts. Audio podcasts update without stalling iTunes.

Power Mac G4 MDD 1.25GHz DP often completely locks up in the first few minutes after booting, sometimes with the spinning beach ball, normally with a very high pitched whining noise.

Over the last few months my Mac has developed a worrying habit.
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Just wondering if this is something that always happens to everyone - when syncing my iphone to itunes it will always stall for a few seconds and the spinning beach ball appears even though im using a brand new Macbook Air.
Is it normal? Will it always happen no matter what?
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Since you haven't had your MBAir for long, make sure the system software is up to date.
Click the Apple () menu (top left in your screen) Software Update ...
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Restart the MBAir and restart your iPhone and try syncing to iTunes. Make sure the iPhone battery is charged to 100% before syncing regardless of whether or not it's connected to your MBAir.
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