Very Strange iPhoto problem and lots of spinning beach balls!

Hi - been using iPhoto 08 since it came out. Never a problem. About a week ago things starting going weird. It would crash and I'd get the spinning beach ball a lot. This never happened ever. It got so bad I jumped on here, followed some advice and downloaded iphoto library manager. I rebuilt my library - no change. I would double click a photo to enlarge it and it would just stop with a spinning ball. Other programs worked fine, just iPhoto would ground to a halt. Then I noticed some pics I would double click to enlarge would be corrupt. Grey half way down or black completely? They use to be fine. So I got so frustrated that I reinstalled Leopard. Everything worked fine. I even downloaded a trial Lightroom and it worked fine too with a project of mine. Tonight I decided to test iPhoto and it is still playing up. My iMac is a 24 with all latest updates. 4 Gig ram. Hard drive has 250 gig available. my iPhoto library is on an external drive which has 140 gig available. Something went wrong in the last week or so. Is there a way to search out and find a corrupt file or whatever is causing my mac to struggle using iphoto? Thanks so very much for any help.
Rob

Have you tried to rebuild the library? Make a backup of it first and then launch iPhoto with the Command+Option keys depressed and follow the instructions to rebuild the library. Select all the options.
If that doesn't clear up iPhoto's problems rebuild the library with iPhoto Library Manager as follows:
Using iPhoto Library Manager to Rebuild Your iPhoto Library
1 -Download iPhoto Library Manager and launch.
2 -Click on the Add Library button, navigate to your User/Pictures folder and select your iPhoto Library folder.
3 - 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
4 - In the next window name the new library and select the location you want it to be placed.
5 - 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 untouched for further attempts at fixing or in case the rebuilt library is not satisfactory .
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto (iPhoto.Library for iPhoto 5 and earlier versions) database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.
I've created an Automator workflow application (requires Tiger or later), iPhoto dB File Backup, that will copy the selected Library6.iPhoto file from your iPhoto Library folder to the Pictures folder, replacing any previous version of it. There are versions that are compatible with iPhoto 5, 6, 7 and 8 libraries and Tiger and Leopard. Just put the application in the Dock and click on it whenever you want to backup the dB file. iPhoto does not have to be closed to run the application, just idle. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.
NOTE: iPhoto 8's (09) new option in the library rebuild pane, "Rebuild the iPhoto Library Database from automatic backup" may make this tip obsolete. We'll know when users have occasion to use it and see if that's the case.

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Same experience after upgrading to 10.1 on mid 2011 27" imac 3.4 i7 16GB of RAM. I was midway through a project when I upgraded but I also made a copy of 10.0.9 and the project so i could go back to it if anything went sideways. The project is all RED 4K and it was smooth as could be before the upgrade. Now if you just want to grab a clip and move it around the timeline there is a three second delay before you can do so. Even just grabbing an audio file and moving it a couple frames forward causes it throw a beach ball up. Play back of the timeline is perfect though, no dropped frames or anything.
As it is right now I'm loading up 10.0.9 and finishing this project. After it's done I will try and start a library from scratch and see if that makes a difference. Right now, 10.1 is just unusable for me unfortunatley.
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Problem description: My macbook pro since this afteon has been slower, every application I open, it takes a long time to open, and shows the spinning beach ball for a while before it opens or performs some task, or responds to a click- EtreCheck

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My macbook pro since this afternoon has been slower, every application I open, it takes a long time to open, and shows the spinning beach ball for a while before it opens or performs some task, or responds to a click…
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MacBook Pro is slow in loading pages. Lots of spinning beach balls. What to do?

MacBook Prois slow in loading pages from the internet. Lots of spinning beach balls. What should I do?

Lots of similar stories and help in the Mac OS X Snow Leopard (and Lion) forums for 10.6.x or 10.7
And might want to find the real MacBook Pro forum.

Clean install of Lion has lots of spinning beach balls?

I did a clean install of Lion last week. Before I installed any applications or made any personal preference changes I updated the Lion with all software updates.
However after thinking this was a near perfect/clean install after I week I seem to experience lots of spinning beach balls. My wife notices it a lot when she's checking her school web email, which she seems to lose her cursor for several minutes with beach balls.
I don't know what's going on...I ran verify disk permissions with no change.
Ideas?

As an experiment, I would see if using something like the OpenDNS or Google DNS servers has any effect. Often times while doing networking things, there are name lookups and if the DNS servers are slow, or unresponsive, you can see network delays.
System Preferences -> Network -> Advanced -> DNS -> [+] (click the plus button at the bottom of the list to add new DNS entries). The one at the top of the list will be your primary DNS server.
OpenDNS.org
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220
Google DNS
8.8.8.8
8.8.4.4

Lots of spinning beach balls

Hello,
I have a Mac mini G4 (see specs in signature) and it worked fine a for a while until at one point a month or two ago, there was something wrong with the file directory or something so I had to do a complete zero erase and install. It worked fine for a while, but lately everything I do has been causing me to see more and more of the dreaded spinning beach ball. For example, clicking on "log in" on the apple discussion page brought about the spinning beach ball. Opening a new window can sometimes bring a spinning beach ball. Even in iChat it will randomly show me the spinning beach ball. iTunes as well has been giving me plenty of grief so much that I can't even listen to music on my computer because it will freeze and the seconds in the song will stop moving and then it plays for a bit and then stops again. I don't know what's wrong with my computer. In the Activity Manager it says I have 660 MB free memory and I have a 94% idle CPU. It's not dusty and it doesn't feel hot, in the iStat Pro widget it says the HD is at 119 degrees Fahrenheit. What the heck is wrong with my computer? It is really frustrating to not be able to even play an MP3 on my computer or have Safari freeze just because I opened a new window. The strange thing is that it always comes back, as in, when it freezes, I just have to wait a little bit and then it starts working again. So far I have tried repairing the disk permissions, repairing the disk, running "sudo periodic daily weekly monthly" and even running AppleJack in "deep clean" mode. Please, any help would be vastly appreciated.
P.S. As I was writing this, I got the beach ball twice.
Message was edited by: el pinguino

There are a number of possible issues that could cause this other than the ones you appear to have attempted to deal with so far.
The most obvious is an issue with Fonts - Macs are sensitive to font conflicts in particular, though some fonts cause problems even with no conflicts. Open Font Book and get it to check and resolve conflicts, then go through the font families and turn off what you absolutely don't need (even if only to run the system for a day or so to see if it helps - they can be turned on again when needed).
Next obvious is prebinding, though with a newly reinstalled system that shouldn't be a problem. Try to update prebinding anyway, just to rule that out.
Also ensure that permissions are repaired and remove all caches. Applejack does this, though personally I prefer YASU. After that is done, then use Disk Utility to check the boot drive (you'll need to boot from another MacOS volume such as the original install disk to effect repairs if needed).
After that, it's possible the issue is a damaged property list file, so grab a copy of Preferential Treatment and scan both user and system levels. Delete anything it flags as a problem.
Lastly (for now at least), create a new user on the system and log into that to see if that user suffers the same issues.

New MacBook and The Infinitely Spinning Beach Ball: Anybody Else?

I wonder if I'm the only MacBook owner having this experience, or if there might be some company in my misery?
I purchased a new Aluminum MacBook on Nov.14. This one is the high-end, 2.4GHz model with 4GB of RAM and currently running OSX 10.5.5.
I have in the past few days (or week, or so) encountered what appears to be an intermittent performance failure. I will, for example, be in Apple Mail: Open a new message to compose, and as soon as I click on the open window, the beach balls starts spinning... and continues to spin for a minute or two. Typically, when this starts happening, when I get the cursor back I click again, and the beachball resumes spinning.
This will also happen in Firefox, or, as it did yesterday, even accessing items in the upper-right menu bar. Suspecting an impending hard-drive failure, I clicked the Time Capsule icon in the menu to see when I got my last backup, and instead of getting Time Capsule, I got... the spinning beach ball of death.
The most difficult thing about this dilemma is that it appears to be intermittent. I took the MacBook to the dealer that sold it to me yesterday, was unable to replicate the issues. Everything worked fine in the store. Came home, problem returned for about 10 or 15 minutes, then it went away and the computer performed normally until I closed the lid to go out for the evening.
Then this morning I opened the lid again and.... spinning beach balls for a total of about 17 minutes. And now, again, it appears to be working fine.
While I was at the store, we ran a disc verify in disk utility, and it returned the message "The volume Macintosh HD appears to be OK."
This is the worst kind of problem -- the intermittent one. I suspect something in the computer itself, in the believe that hardware issues are more likely to be intermittent than software issues; I could be wrong about that, I dunno.
All I do know is that I can have maddening periods when I can't do anything with the computer, and then, just as suddenly, everything goes back to normal.
So I wonder if there might be anything in the circuitry in these new MacBooks that might be causing a similar problem for others. Or is this my unique cross to bear until the thing goes completely south?
Thanks,
--PS

Have you tried running the diagnostics from the Leopard disc? If not, give it a go to see what it finds. To run it, boot while holding the "d" key (with Leopard disc in ofcourse).
Haven't tried that, I did not know that was on the disk. I'll run it, how long might it take? What sort of tests does it run, what sort of results should I expect?
Another thing to try is reset the SMC.
Following the link you provided suggests there might be some things in the SMC that could be causing my problems. Should I do that before or after I run the diagnostics? Would the diagnostics tell me if that's something I need to do?
If still nothing... perhaps a reinstall of Leopard.
I call that the "Vietnam Solution" -- destroying the village in order to save it. I thought was done with that sort of thing when I abandoned PCs and Windows. Not a desirable outcome.
As a last resort, you might consider trying a new hard drive. A failing drive can cause theses intermittent delays.
That was my initial thought, too. Are there any diagnostics I can run besides dick utility to determine the integrity of the hard drive? Do the diagnostics on the Leopard install disk do that?
Thanks,
--PS

ITunes 7.7 Update and iPod classic = Spinning Beach Ball

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I've tried everything I can think of from resetting my iPod to reinstalling iTunes. Nothing has worked for me.
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(Mountain) Lion and its endless spinning beach ball.

These cats like beach balls a lot.
I really hate to complain about any Apple product because this company really care about details and user experience. But this Lion thing is enough for me. Since I installed Lion on my computer, my work became a frustration. The computer decreased its speed 70% at least. Switching between applications became a torture while watching desperately the beach ball spinning endlessly until the solicited window draws completely. Numbers and Pages spend the time saving and saving taking from four to ten seconds each time while annoying me and stopping me from finishing my work and taking me out of concentration every five minutes or so. It's a hateful nuisance. The icons in Launchpad linger to draw, all I see for several seconds are their dotted frames until they want to appear. The whole machine freezes completely while the spinning beach ball spins happily and eternally until I force quitting application by application or reboot the computer at once, turning it off and on again for the third time this day, and the fifteenth time this week. Fixing privileges and cmd+alt+P+R don't work.
I beared all this torture for months hoping Mountan would fix this mess. Oh, poor of me, such a naive user; the hours and hours downloading the upgrade with a child-like heart who expect to be given a wished gift were useless and disappointing. The result is the same or worse if I dare to use iCloud.
So well. Fortunately for me, I had bought Tiger on disc a long ago... I'll draw back this weekend until Apple DO SOMETHING with this lazy Lion. For my part, the 200+ Mountain Lion features are totally useless and a spent of money and disk space if I can't even switch between applications without groaning or if I can't finish my Page/Numbers work on schedule and without disturbances.
My opinion: Mac OS X is a beautiful operating system but, for productivity purposes, stay away from Lion in any version. Because when you finish fixing all its mess, you will have lost your temper, your job or became insane, or all at once. It doesn't worth the while, better you invest the time with your family.

These cats like beach balls a lot.
I really hate to complain about any Apple product because this company really care about details and user experience. But this Lion thing is enough for me. Since I installed Lion on my computer, my work became a frustration. The computer decreased its speed 70% at least. Switching between applications became a torture while watching desperately the beach ball spinning endlessly until the solicited window draws completely. Numbers and Pages spend the time saving and saving taking from four to ten seconds each time while annoying me and stopping me from finishing my work and taking me out of concentration every five minutes or so. It's a hateful nuisance. The icons in Launchpad linger to draw, all I see for several seconds are their dotted frames until they want to appear. The whole machine freezes completely while the spinning beach ball spins happily and eternally until I force quitting application by application or reboot the computer at once, turning it off and on again for the third time this day, and the fifteenth time this week. Fixing privileges and cmd+alt+P+R don't work.
I beared all this torture for months hoping Mountan would fix this mess. Oh, poor of me, such a naive user; the hours and hours downloading the upgrade with a child-like heart who expect to be given a wished gift were useless and disappointing. The result is the same or worse if I dare to use iCloud.
So well. Fortunately for me, I had bought Tiger on disc a long ago... I'll draw back this weekend until Apple DO SOMETHING with this lazy Lion. For my part, the 200+ Mountain Lion features are totally useless and a spent of money and disk space if I can't even switch between applications without groaning or if I can't finish my Page/Numbers work on schedule and without disturbances.
My opinion: Mac OS X is a beautiful operating system but, for productivity purposes, stay away from Lion in any version. Because when you finish fixing all its mess, you will have lost your temper, your job or became insane, or all at once. It doesn't worth the while, better you invest the time with your family.

IBook freezing up during internet use and getting the spinning beach ball

I have a iBook 1.33 PowerPC G4 with 512 DDR SDRAM running 10.3.9. I just recently had the hard drive replaced due to it failing. The computer was bought, I believe, back in 2004 so the AppleCare has run out. We also had a new power supply sent to us by Apple because the power pack was over heating. Ever since the hard drive was replaced, it runs fine for about 15 to 20 minutes, then the spinning beach ball appears. It happens every time I'm running my wireless network. I'll be using Safari and the beach ball appears. The only way to shut the computer down is by physically pushing the power button to shut it off. I'm not able to force quit out of anything. Any suggestions? I hear that it's a software issue or a logic board issue or an airport issue or etc. It's frustrating and I don't know where to start. With the bad power pack would that have caused a problem?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

One place to start might be to run the Apple Hardware Test and see if anything shows up. Also, you could use disc utility to verify and repair permissions and the disc if necessary. I don't know if that would help, but it would at least serve to eliminate some potential factors.
Good luck!

Lots of spinning beach balls. MBP 3,1 OSX 10.8.2

Dear all
I own a 2007 MBP 3,1 2,4 ghz core 2 duo with 6gb of RAM (recently the video card was replaced because of the dreaded nvidia problem known to these devices.. - mind you, only the video card was replaced, not the logic board (was out of warranty by 11 days..)
I used it on OX snow leopard without a problem and OSX Lion too.
But after installing an SSD 180gb from intel and clean installing 10.8.2 i keep having the dreaded beach ball issue. Everytime i open a finder window it stalls and hangs. i have problems switching programms.. (the SSD itself is fast, startup times are near 0)
Activity monitor shows plenty of free RAM (4gb +-) and no page outs.. 90% of the processor is idle, but still it hangs.. it's getting really frustrating..
A clean install has already been done so no 3th party apps are installed..
Any ideas

Filip, the Trim command has nothing to do with. Be aware that you have to reset the Trim command everytime you update the OS. The only "easy" method to set the Trim command is with the latest version of TrimEnabler (2.2) which may not work anymore when the next update comes out, research that before you use it. The older versions of TE are crapware. To do it yourself with Terminal commands (Grant Pannel) is even trickier. The Intel SSD has Grabage Collection in its controller, thus it is not a big disadvantage when the Trim command is not set.
The 1.5GB/s "problem" is only when the SSD connects, thus setting "never sleep" for the harddrives is a good idea; do not restart too often.

Who else is having Safari freeze and show the spinning beach ball?

So far Yoyo has been much much better than Mavericks in every way. However, Safari suddenly just started loading pages very slowly and the spinning ball was almost constantly replacing my pointer.
Has anybody else had this happen in OSX10 and what was your solution? I loaded Chrome and all is well again.
I was beyond angry with OSX9 and it was a useless waste of my time and energy. Yosemite seems to have fixed nearly all the insipid problems that started with OSX8, but this has me wondering if I'm the only one.

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.

My MBP is real slow, lots of spinning beach ball. Why?

I took it to the genius bar on Michigan Avenue in Chicago, but a sharp young man there didn't help.
Are there tools on board here that I can use to find the problem?
Thanks,
Jerry

Please read this whole message before doing anything.
This procedure is a diagnostic test. It won’t solve your problem. Don’t be disappointed when you find that nothing has changed after you complete it.
Third-party system modifications are a common cause of usability problems. By a “system modification,” I mean software that affects the operation of other software -- potentially for the worse. The following procedure will help identify which such modifications you've installed. Don’t be alarmed by the complexity of these instructions -- they’re easy to carry out and won’t change anything on your Mac.
These steps are to be taken while booted in “normal” mode, not in safe mode. If you’re now running in safe mode, reboot as usual before continuing.
Below are several lines of text in monospaced type, which are UNIX shell commands. They’re harmless, but they must be entered exactly as given in order to work. If you have doubts about the safety of running these commands, search this site for other discussions in which they’ve been used without any report of ill effects.
Some of the commands will line-wrap or scroll in your browser, but each one is really just a single line, all of which must be selected. You can accomplish this easily by triple-clicking anywhere in the line. The whole line will highlight, and you can then either copy or drag it. The headings “Step 1” and so on are not part of the commands.
Note: If you have more than one user account, Step 2 must be taken as an administrator. Ordinarily that would be the user created automatically when you booted the system for the first time. The other steps should be taken as the user who has the problem, if different. Most personal Macs have only one user, and in that case this paragraph doesn’t apply.
To begin, launch the Terminal application; e.g., by entering the first few letters of its name in a Spotlight search. A text window will open with a line already in it, ending either in a dollar sign (“$”) or a percent sign (“%”). If you get the percent sign, enter “sh” (without the quotes) and press return. You should then get a new line ending in a dollar sign.
Step 1
Copy or drag -- do not type -- the line below into the Terminal window, then press return:
kextstat -kl | awk '!/com\.apple/{printf "%s %s\n", $6, $7}'
Post the lines of output (if any) that appear below what you just entered (the text, please, not a screenshot.)
Step 2
Repeat with this line:
sudo launchctl list | sed 1d | awk '!/0x|com\.(apple|openssh|vix)|org\.(x|postfix|ntp|cups)/{print $3}'
This time, you'll be prompted for your login password, which won't be displayed when you type it. You may get a one-time warning not to screw up. You don't need to post the warning.
Step 3
launchctl list | sed 1d | awk '!/0x|com\.apple|org\.(x|openbsd)/{print $3}'
Step 4
ls -1A /e*/mach* {,/}L*/{Ad,Compon,Ex,Fram,In,Keyb,La,Mail/Bu,P*P,Priv,Qu,Scripti,Servi,Spo,Sta}* L*/Fonts 2> /dev/null
Important: If you synchronize with a MobileMe account, your me.com email address may appear in the output of the above command. If so, anonymize it before posting.
Step 5
osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to get name of every login item'
Remember, steps 1-5 are all drag-and-drop or copy-and-paste, whichever you prefer -- no typing, except your password. Also remember to post the output.
You can then quit Terminal.

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HI ALL
I am having a very strange mrp problem and that is
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Duplicate see [/questions/960928]
Im going insane with the spinning beachball on mac when using Firefox v21.
It happens several times per minute with something as simple as choosing the next field on a page or even scrolling down the page using the scroller on the right hand of the page.
Im on a laptop which has os 10.6.8 installed and the laptop has 8gig of ram and a 2.8ghz intel core 2 duo processor.
On previous versions of Firefox I used to get "unresponsive script" warnings with the option to stop it. These warnings would pop up and never give the option to "always stop an unresponsive script AND never take total control of my computer trying to get the script to respond"
There is no option to block the script on the site its coming from.
I did have a block script plug in but no sites work properly if java script isnt enabled.
With Firefox21 I dont get these pop up warnings any more.
I have a lot of tabs open and when the spinning beach ball happens too often I quit firefox and open it again. It remembers my tabs but doesnt load till I click on the tab.
Despite this Firefox will start stalling and showing the beachball spinning only after a few new pages are opened.
It is enfuriating and I dont consider the software to be working properly.
Im wondering has something gottten corrupted in the System Library when firefox installs or if there is a compatability problem with versions of Firefox, my OS10.6.8, Java, Flash?
I can only look at one tab at a time - I WOULD LOVE IF THERE WAS AN OPTION TO
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I used to use a plug in called Pause All Tabs which was brilliant and gave me back control of my computer. I cant get it for FF21
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Locking as duplicate. Please see and continue with [/questions/960928]

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