I have a Mac Pro from late 2008 which turns on, makes the startup sound, and remains on the spinning wheel for about 30 seconds before the wheel freezes. I have Windows 8 installed on another internal drive and I can't boot past their version of the spinning wheel, either. Shortly after you start Microsoft Outlook for Mac 2011 on Mac OS X El Capitan (version 10.11), Outlook hangs when it tries to sync with the server. The Spinning.
OS X:: Color Spinning Wheel Won't Go Away In Mac Word? Jan 15, 2010 I just got my imac 21.5 a week ago, and now already a problem. It was working fine until now. I have been copying and pasting pictures and avatars from forums onto Microsoft office (office mac 2008). And tonight I got the dreadful color spinning wheel when I tried to copy more. I wouldn't go away after 10 minutes, so I restarted the computer.
I reopened office, and it still had the wheel. It keeps saying it has to close. Why is this happening? Is it bad to copy and paste? Similar Messages:. ADVERTISEMENT Jun 4, 2012 my color wheel or beachball is spinning all the time now and the system is very slow Info:Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8) Dec 10, 2014 When I open safari colored spinning wheel appears and locks up safari, I have to force quit to get out. It also appears briefly when other programmes are opened but doesn't seem to affect them.
Info: iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.5) Mar 22, 2012 Get the spinning color wheel when I try to watch video on URL. I can watch the initial advertisement, but when it is time for the video to play I get the spinning color wheel and eventually says Plug in Failed. Info: iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.7) May 24, 2012 Lately my MacBook is dragging and I'm spending more time watching the spinning color wheel than working of having fun.
What can I do to speed up the process and get rid of the spinning wheel? Info: MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.8) Dec 8, 2010 What does it mean when my 13' Macbook Pro pointer turns into a spinning color wheel after a web page loads, but freezes while this is happening? Every now and it does this for just a few seconds. At first I though maybe it lost my home Wifi signal, but it's showing 4 full bars. Sep 17, 2009 I bought my first uMbp the day Snow Leopard came out. Unfortunately, it was not installed on the uMbp. So upon running the mbp for the first time, I proceeded to install SL.
Now occasionally, maybe a once every other day, whenever I open up a few applications like Word or maybe even a new tab in Firefox, everything would freeze and the spinning color wheel would spin for about 30 or so seconds and everything would resume to normal. Now I ask, is this normal behavior?
I have the 2.26ghz uMBP edition with 2gb of ram. Should I go ahead and do a clean re-install? Jun 17, 2014 I have a MacBook Pro When I try to load a specific page on a website all I get is a color wheel spinning. How can I fix it so the page will open? Info: MacBook Pro Mar 20, 2012 How do I stop the wheel of death in Word? Info: MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8) May 17, 2012 My color wheel is ALWAYS on. NEVER used to come on at all.
Where do I start? Info: MacBook Pro Feb 25, 2012 My mac is often stalled with spinning wheel. What is best method to fix it? Info: iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8) Jun 24, 2012 MobileMe mail wheel keeps spinning Apr 22, 2010 This just happened today- I have a imac 21.5- and when I put in a DVD the movie worked but the color wheel would NOT go away. I tried everything from pressing ESC to trying to fast forward/rewind- nothing worked. I had to restart the computer by pressing the button on the back. I tried playing the DVD again and the color wheel came up. The DVD plays fine in other players.
Dec 30, 2005 Why my safari freezing on me daily? I am often opening new tabs and viewing 4 or 5 pages at once, and while they are loading it seems to be stuck on the annoying spinning rainbow wheel, ultimately leading me to end the program for not responding. Aug 26, 2008 When I start up my iMac, it runs ok for a good 3-4 minutes, then all of a sudden when I try to click somewhere, I get the spinning wheel of death for about 2-3 minutes. Then when I click somewhere else I get another spinning wheel of death for another few minutes. This goes on and on and the computer is basically unusable, unless I want to wait 30 minutes to complete easy tasks that should take 2 minutes. I tried resetting the ram by holding apple-option-P-R while restarting, but nothing is working.
I have a good 15% free on my hard drive. Aug 24, 2009 I can barely type this post or do anything on my mac book pro without a spinning wheel popping up.
Any help would be appreciated. I have cleared Pram, ran disk utility fix permissions. Sep 8, 2009 I'm currently using Win 7 on my partitioned drive since I can't get OS X to boot. Here's what I did to screw everything up: Installed SL awhile back without performing what people here are referring to as a 'clean install' (I had lots of third party apps installed). Things seemed to be working fine, though Finder seemed to lag more in 10.6 than it did in 10.5. Today, however, I tried updating Parallels 4.0.
It required that I reboot in order to finish the installation. But, when the Apple logo appeared, that damned spinner just wouldn't stop. Perhaps Parallels is 'tainting' the kernel? First, I tried reinstalling from the SL Install DVD.
No luck there. I tried downgrading to 10.5 (archive and install).
Still didn't boot. I even tried several volume repairs. Those didn't help either. So, now I've heard that some users are having luck booting in safe mode. But, if I try that, will I be able to transfer data to a backup drive?
Oct 16, 2009 My SL was working perfectly until yesterday. I got my late 08 UMBP back from AppleCare without any replacement (see post here). They just run a kind of apple test suit on an external OSX, I guess they booted from a firewire disk. Anyway, now I getting very often a system hang with a spinning wheel.
When I try to repair permissions in the Disk Utility, the progress it stays like 10 minutes on the same place at the very beginning, then spinning wheel again then the system doesn't react. I can move the mouse that's all. Feb 19, 2010 In the past couple of weeks, Finder on my MacBook has been ridiculously laggy in doing just about anything. For instance, if I try to rename a file, I can usually count on having to wait anywhere from 3 to 10 seconds for the new name to appear on the Desktop. The same thing often occurs when moving files.
Finder also constantly beachballs for 5 seconds, which extends to things like save dialogs in other applications - if I open up a Save as. Dialog, the app usually hangs for awhile waiting for Finder to figure itself out. During these periods of lag, the computer is otherwise 100% responsive - I can use other apps, I can open other apps via LaunchBar or the Dock (as long as I don't try to use Finder, which is busy beachballing), and my CPU usage sits at around 90% idle. No problems at all except for Finder constantly beachballing and lagging.
Performing disk tasks like moving and renaming files via Terminal complete instantaneously, so it doesn't look to be a problem with my disk. When I started writing this post, Finder was 'Preparing to move' one file, and only just now finished. I don't recall exactly when these problems started, but it's possible it was around the time I upgraded from Leopard to Snow Leopard.
I imagine that reinstalling Snow Leopard would fix these problems, but I'd rather not resort to that. I've got another computer running the same software as far as I can tell that doesn't exhibit any of these problems. Aug 6, 2010 I have a brand new macbook pro, and whenever I use itunes, iphoto or firefox. I get the spinning 'wheel of doom' about every ten minutes. It only lasts about 30 seconds, but happens even when I only have one application open. Sep 28, 2008 I'm really stuck with this one. I have just purchased 2 Macs, an iMac and a Macbook (the white one).
This problem only happens with one of them, the Macbook. When I login using my windows account (DOMAINUser) on my iMac everything works fine. When I try the same on my Macbook however I type my password, hit Login, and then I get the spinning colorful wheel, and nothing else (I have waited a loooong time).
This is really frustrating because: 1. I can log in to a local account on the Macbook 2. The settings between both machines for Active Directory are exactly the same The only 3rd party software I have installed on both machines is Office 2008 (the standard edition - not home & student). This is what I have tried so far (remembering, I'm not a Mac expert, but am a PC expert): 1. Removed the mobile account that was created when I logged into Active Directory, then logged in again 3.
Typed a wrong password, this confirmed that the Macbook was talking to the Windows server (I can see network traffic as well) 4. Cleared the Library/Caches folder, and System/Library/Caches folder Oct 29, 2008 I have a macbook 2.16mhz with 2gb ram mid 2007 model. It has started showing the spinning wheel for about 10-20 seconds for the last 3 months and it was getting worse and worse! And it came a time last week when almost every 5 clicks I was doing the wheel was appearing again! First I thought I had a faulty ram and I ran memtest but everything was ok! Then I reinstalled the system but still the problem exists not so ften though. Most of the times happens when I work on safari.
Apr 17, 2012 My computer stopped charging and turning on a short while after it was dropped. I bought a new charger and my dad managed to fix it. (after i was told by a tech expert at a dodgy asian store the main processer had to be replaced) The only issue im having are. The spinny wheel apears in almost all tasks, internet, browsing flies, clicking top tab. It only appears for about 30 seconds then goes away, sometimes freezing completely, It seems to happen less when the computer is stationary but still will happen quite often even just typing text. Logic Pro after reinstalling refuses to Open. Music sometimes freezes skips for 5-10 seconds. I did some research and try a few things its not the CPU usage cause i been checking using that program that checks. Is there a way i can check what part is failing through software or maybe do a general clean up? Since it was reformated. Do i need to get a new computer or just a replacement part if i eliminate all other issues?
Or could it be the start up drive? Info: MacBook Pro May 4, 2012 Three seconds after iTunes starts, spinning wheel up and never disappear. We have thrownplist in preferences.
We've reset the parameters (cmd + alt + p + r). We have reinstalled iTunes. The operating system is Leopard and iTunes is only used toplay songs and burning it. No iPhone synchronization. Jun 1, 2012 on startup with my mac book i get an apple logo and a spinning wheel where it either continues like this or switches itself off. Jun 16, 2012 Could this be caused by a failing hard drive?
2008 13' Aluminium MacBook Running 10.6.8 (shipped with 10.5) 2.0 GHz Core 2 Duo 2 GB RAM 250 GB HDD Info: MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.8) Jun 27, 2012 So I'm aware I have to reformat my Mac. That's not my biggest issue here. My issue is I lost my snow leopard OS X while I moved and want to know if I could buy the $30 disc cuz I have everything BUT my OS X disc unfortunately. Info: iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.7) Jun 4, 2014 Since the last software upgrade all I get is spinning wheel even after resetting Info: MacBook Pro Aug 31, 2014 I have a Mac Pro from late 2008 which turns on, makes the startup sound, and remains on the spinning wheel for about 30 seconds before the wheel freezes. I have Windows 8 installed on another internal drive and I can't boot past their version of the spinning wheel, either. I've tried booting off of the install disc (Snow Leopard, which is what the machine is running) and off of a USB stick with a Snow Leopard.dmg on it, neither of which have worked.
I've done all the steps to fix a drive error, so I don't think it's that. I've read that it could be a graphics card error; Mine was a GeForce 7300, if I remember correctly. Info: Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8) Nov 17, 2009 Occasionally, I have a lot of mac applications running on my desktop, and I like to switch back and forth and do certain things with each one of them. If I clog the activity monitor up too much, the color wheel will come up, and I really hate it.
I get very impatient when that happens - not because of it being there, but for some reason, the color wheel itself. Is there a way to change it so that there is not the color wheel there, maybe something like a black and white color wheel or another gif.
You see that spinning color wheel? People call it the Spinning Beach Ball of Death, or the Rainbow Wheel. Wikipedia calls it the Spinning Pinwheel, and the official name for it is the Spinning Wait Cursor. Either way, if you’ve got a slow Mac, you’ll be seeing that beach ball quite a bit — and you don’t even get a suntan to go with it. The Spinning Beach Ball of Death. There are a lot of easy ways to speed up your Mac so that you see that spinning wheel less often, and you can get to where you need to go on your Mac faster.
Reduce Login Items Login Items are called Startup Items on PCs, and they mean the same thing: apps that launch when your computer starts up, and stay in memory the entire time. Odds are you don’t need that many login items. Here’s how to reduce that number. Click the Apple icon Click System Preferences Click Users and Groups Click the Login Items tab for the current user Click the Lock icon to make changes, enter your password, and click Unlock. Under the Hide column, select an item to remove from startup. If you’d like, click the Lock icon again to prevent any further changes without a password.
Select an item to exclude from startup. Repair your Drive Sometimes a hard drive or solid state drive will become damaged on your Mac, and cause a lot of slowdown issues as a result. While there’s little to be done if a drive crashes completely, if there are just a few errors, then verifying the drive is a good idea. To verify a hard drive or solid state drive:. Click the Launchpad.
Click Other. Click Disk Utility. Select your current hard drive. It will usually be named Macintosh HD. Click Verify Disk. If any errors are found, you’ll be able to click Repair Disk to fix them. Click Verify Disk to scan your drive for errors.
Click Verify Disk to scan your drive for errors. Repair Disk Permissions When many apps are installed, permissions can get out of order, causing a lot of slowdown and operating system delay. It’s a good idea to repair disk permissions on an infrequent basis, which clears up this issue. To repair disk permissions:. Click the Launchpad. Click Other. Click Disk Utility.
Select your current hard drive. It will usually be named Macintosh HD. Click Verify Disk Permissions. If any errors are found, click Repair Disk Permissions. Close Open Apps Some apps take up more memory and CPU than others. It’s a good idea to close apps when you’re not using them.
Instead of the yellow (minimize) icon, click the red (close) icon in the upper left corner to remove it. Web browsers and iTunes are often culprits for memory hogs. Too many tabs open in a web browser can also cause this issue. Update your OS Newer versions of OS X are designed to use less memory and CPU, and to use both more efficiently.
Newer Macs especially benefit from the very latest version. To check and see if a newer OS is available on Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6.6) or newer:. Click the Apple button. Click Software Update. This will taken you into the Mac App Store. Update to the latest OS from here. If you don’t have the App Store installed, you’re several versions behind.
You’ll need to first upgrade to Snow Leopard via CD, then Mountain Lion from the App Store. Even if the OS is up to date, it’s a good idea to update the software you have installed, as this can often clear up memory issues. Update all Mac software to the latest version. Perform these steps one by one, and you’ll definitely have a speedier Mac without having to upgrade. Good thing, too — Macs are a real pain to upgrade yourself.
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