What's with the beach ball of death?

I see it more frequently than when I first purchased my macbook. Don't get me wrong, I love my mac and it's still faster than anything out there but why does it appear more than before especially when using Mail, iPhoto, and especially iTunes?

First, back up all data immediately, as your boot drive might be failing.
Take these steps when you notice the problem.
Step 1
Launch the Activity Monitor 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. Click Utilities, then Activity Monitor in the icon grid.
Select the CPU tab of the Activity Monitor window.
Select All Processes from the menu in the toolbar, if not already selected.
Click the heading of the % CPU column in the process table to sort the entries by CPU usage. You may have to click it twice to get the highest value at the top. What is it, and what is the process? Also post the values for % User, % System, and % Idle at the bottom of the window.
Select the System Memory tab. What values are shown in the bottom part of the window for Page outs and Swap used?
Next, select the Disk Activity tab. Post the approximate values shown for Reads in/sec and Writes out/sec (not Reads in and Writes out.)
Step 2
You must be logged in as an administrator to carry out this step.
Launch the Console application in the same way as above. Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left.
Post the 50 or so most recent messages in the log — the text, please, not a screenshot.
When posting a log extract, be selective. Don't post more than is requested.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into a message.
Important: Some personal information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Edit it out before posting.

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When I attempt to empty the trash I get the progress bar with message on how many items to empty and I get the barber pole lines but it never really starts to empty. I just have the beach ball of death. Everything else on the MacBook Pro comes to a halt (if you wait about 5 minutes an app selected to quit might quit). You can click on the X to stop emptying trash and it says it's stopping but it keeps showing the marching progress bar and the beach ball keeps spinning.
Running 10.7. 8 gigs ram 2.0 ghz i7. 15".
The only way to shut down is force quit holding down the power key. Tried it in Safe Mode with same results.

I had the same problem.
Your advice solved my problem.
Thank you for the original post. And the two updates.
I nominate you for "15 Points." 5 for your helpful answer. And another 10 because it was correct.
Apple's Support Community needs more people like you.
If I had posted a question and no one answered, I'd say, "the **** with it."
Instead, you came back - not once but twice - to provide updates.
Again, thank you.

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What is the exact spec of the clips that cause the problem?
(Open one of the files with QuickTime and press Cmd+i to open the Inspector - then report back with the what it says).
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Finder periodically plagued with Spinning Beach Ball of Death

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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:
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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)
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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

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try doing a SMC RESET if you've tried repair permissions...

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IMac bootup issues and spinning beach ball of death.

Hello Hello.
So I was recently given a brand new iMac 27inch by Apple, due to the death of my 2008 24inch iMac. Everything has been going great with it until today. I restarted it at some point this afternoon, and ever since then it has been acting quite strange. First thing i've noticed is that when I boot it up, when it gets to the white screen with the gray apple logo and the spinning thing, there is now a transparent rounded rectangle bar at the bottom of the screen for a minute or so...which was never the case before. Then, if it decides to proceed to OSX (sometimes it wont), the beach ball of death never stops spinning, which of course means i can do pretty much nothing. On top of that, it will not connect to the internet...my Macbook Pro connects fine to the wifi, so I know it's not my service. Bottom line, I have no idea what is going on. I've had it only for a couple of months, and haven't really had any problems until now. I'm hoping I'll just wake up in the morning and everything will be back to normal...
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Thanks for yer time
IAN

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I'm wondering if it is my main Macintosh drive. It is a 250 GB drive, about 70% full and has worked fine until now. Because the Finder continues to work, even though apps are BBOD or hanging, I'm not sure about that though.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

Do you still have the original installer dvd's? If so run Apple Hardware Test. Also since you recently added more memory also run Rember (a GUI layer on top or memtest). I wouldn't trust TechTool for reliable memory tests.
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Hmm, coincidence? Maybe, maybe not.
If the Seagate Diagnostic program was the one I found here you probably did not remove all of it. Specifically the kext's it installs.
/System/Library/Extensions/MaxtorPowSecDriver.kext
/System/Library/Extensions/SeagatePowSecDriver.kext
If they are there move them to the trash (proably need your admin password to allow it) and reboot.
If the Seagate Diagnostic program is not the one I found. The do the following in terminal and post the results:
kextstat -kl | awk ' !/apple/ { print $6 $7 } '

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My woeful story.
My macbook pro kept on giving me the beach-ball of death crash shortly after doing some updates so I ended up restoring the whole hard-drive from my time machine backup. No improvement so I tried another backup from my time machine - still no improvement.
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I have done everything I can think of including the usual repair permissions etc. but can't fix it.
Luckily I had backed it up on my time machine before the last update so I am attempting to reinstall again to a point that I know works okay.
Thanks for any help

Start with http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/sbbod.html

Top Sites = Beach Ball of Death (Facebook)

Most of the time when I try to access facebook through the topsites, it causes Safari to stop responding and gives the beach ball of death. It occurred with my espn ffb page too, but facebook is more common.
Apple is just trying to make safari look like an iphone, but failed big time on this one. It's like Microsoft's blue screen of death, do you really want the same sort of association with the beach ball?
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HI,
It would be easier to help you if you would click: My Settings on the right side of this page and tell us which Mac you have and which Mac OS it's running. Much easier to assist you with your profile available. Thanks!
Is your Mac's graphic card may not be compatible or up to date for TopSites.
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256MB of RAM
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                    Macintosh HD (disk0s2) /: 499.25 GB (413.23 GB free)
                    Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
          MATSHITADVD-R   UJ-8A8
USB Information:
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          Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
          Apple Inc. BRCM2070 Hub
                    Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
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                    Time Machine Backups (disk1s2) /Volumes/Time Machine Backups: 319.73 GB (217.49 GB free)
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                    Apple Inc. Apple Keyboard
          Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
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Thunderbolt Information:
          Apple, Inc. MacBook Pro
Kernel Extensions:
          com.parallels.kext.prl_usb_connect          (7.0
          com.parallels.kext.prl_hypervisor          (7.0
          com.parallels.kext.prl_hid_hook          (7.0
          com.parallels.kext.prl_netbridge          (7.0
          com.parallels.kext.prl_vnic          (7.0
          com.sophos.kext.sav          (8.0.14)
Problem System Launch Daemons:
          [not loaded]          ftp-proxy.plist
Problem System Launch Agents:
Launch Daemons:
          [loaded]          com.adobe.fpsaud.plist
          [loaded]          com.bresink.system.securityagent3.plist
          [loaded]          com.google.keystone.daemon.plist
          [loaded]          com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist
          [loaded]          com.parallels.desktop.launchdaemon.plist
          [loaded]          com.sassafras.KeyAccess.plist
          [loaded]          com.sophos.autoupdate.plist
          [loaded]          com.sophos.intercheck.plist
          [loaded]          com.sophos.managementagent.plist
          [loaded]          com.sophos.messagerouter.plist
          [loaded]          com.sophos.notification.plist
Launch Agents:
          [loaded]          com.google.keystone.agent.plist
          [loaded]          com.parallels.desktop.launch.plist
          [loaded]          com.parallels.DesktopControlAgent.plist
          [loaded]          com.parallels.vm.prl_pcproxy.plist
          [loaded]          com.sassafras.KeyAccess.plist
          [loaded]          com.sophos.uiserver.plist
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          [loaded]          com.adobe.ARM.202f4087f2bbde52e3ac2df389f53a4f123223c9cc56a8fd83a6f7ae.pli st
User Login Items:
          iTunesHelper
          Google Chrome
3rd Party Preference Panes:
          Flash Player
          KeyAccess
Internet Plug-ins:
          AdobePDFViewer.plugin
          AdobePDFViewerNPAPI.plugin
          DirectorShockwave.plugin
          F5 SSL VPN Plugin.plugin
          Flash Player.plugin
          FlashPlayer-10.6.plugin
          googletalkbrowserplugin.plugin
          JavaAppletPlugin.plugin
          MeetingJoinPlugin.plugin
          npgtpo3dautoplugin.plugin
          o1dbrowserplugin.plugin
          QuickTime Plugin.plugin
          SharePointBrowserPlugin.plugin
          Silverlight.plugin
User Internet Plug-ins:
          CitrixOnlineWebDeploymentPlugin.plugin
          WebEx64.plugin
Bad Fonts:
          None
Top Processes by CPU:
               3%          helpd
               3%          WindowServer
               2%          EtreCheck
               2%          InterCheck
               1%          Google Chrome
               1%          activitymonitord
               1%          BIG-IP Edge Client
               1%          Activity Monitor
               1%          prl_disp_service
               1%          SystemUIServer
Top Processes by Memory:
          221 MB             InterCheck
          209 MB             SophosManagementAgent
          176 MB             Google Chrome
          61 MB              mds
          61 MB              Finder
          61 MB              Microsoft Word
          61 MB              WindowServer
          53 MB              BIG-IP Edge Client
          51 MB              Google Chrome Helper
          37 MB              DashboardClient
Virtual Memory Statistics
          673 MB             Free RAM
          2.17 GB            Active RAM
          348 MB             Inactive RAM
          852 MB             Wired RAM
          4.81 GB            Page-ins
          277 MB             Page-outs

Safari and the beach balls

So I have safari and after a few mintues of use it locks up with the beach balls telling me to wait. It will do this for about 5 minutes straight then after a few minutes of smooth use it will do it again. I have uninstalled and reinstalled Safari many times and that does not seem to work. Maybe I'm not erasing it completely, but I put it in the trash and empty my trash. Help would be greatly appreciated.

Hi,
Try troubleshooting the Safari .plist file.
Quit Safari. Open a Finder window. Select your Home Folder in the Sidebar on the left. It has a small house icon. Then open the Library folder then the Preferences folder. Move the com.apple.Safari.plist file from the Preferences folder to the Desktop. Restart Safari. If you don't see any beach balls, move that .plist file to the Trash. If it still freezes ..
From your Safari menu bar click Safari / Preferences then select the Extensions tab. If you have any installed, turn that off, then try Safari.
If Extensions aren't causing the beach balls, try resetting Safari. Back to your menu bar click Safari / Reset Safari. Select the top 7 buttons, click Reset.
And back to the menu bar again, click Safari / Preferences then select the Security tab. Deselect: Enable plug-ins. Restart Safari. If you don't see any beach balls, then you have a third party plug in causing the problems. Troubleshooting help here. http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3230?viewlocale=en_US
Carolyn
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