[G4] Spinning Beachball

[Frank Sudore]

APPLEJACK IS THE BEST! Unfortunately it will not work for Leopard.
On Aug 15, 2008, at 4:05 PM, Luke Rademacher wrote:

> Diskwarrior is a good idea for any Mac.
>
> However Diskwarrior should not  be used as the Only thing when  
> running regular maintenance on your Mac.
>
> DiskWarrior does not physically do any defragging or moving of files  
> around on your HD, what it does is Alters the Disk Directory. It  
> rebuilds the Directory which is faster than a defrag.
>
> I highly recommend something like YASU or Macaroni or AppleJack.  
> These apps empty Logs, Caches, cookies, temp files etc and some let  
> you Repair permissions and remove Localizations that are not needed.
>
> Peace,
>
> Luke Rademacher
> Liquid Zone Graphics
> Mac mini 2.0Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo, 3GB RAM, 80GB HD, Combo DVD/CDRW,  
> Mac OSX Leopard 10.5.4, ext NewerTech miniStack w/ 320GB HD.
> MDD Dual 1.25Ghz G4, 2GB RAM, 250GB/120GB/80GB HD's, 16x DL DVD±R/RW  
> Superdrive, Mac OSX Tiger 10.4.11, Classic Mac OS 9.2.2.
> Intel Celeron 2GHz, 1GB RAM, 80GB HD, Ubuntu Linux 8.04
> 5.5th gen 80GB Enhanced Video iPod
> Canon CanoScan 8400F
> Canon Pixma iP450
>
> On Aug 15, 2008, at 8:56 AM, jonny wrote:
>
>> Hello Dan.  I have an MDD 1.25 mhz FW400 running OS 10.3.  At any  
>> sign of trouble (extremely rare) or as part of my pre-backup  
>> routine, I run DiskWarrior for OSX.  I used it for OS 9, for  
>> years.  The first thing I did when I installed OSX was get this  
>> utility.  It's about $100 retail.  Maybe available for less on  
>> ebay, etc.  There may be other pieces of software that do the same  
>> thing; my experience and confidence is with this one.  You boot  
>> from the disk (takes about 5 minutes).
>>
>> If nothing else, running it would rule out that the system was  
>> involved.  At least in my way of thinking.
>>
>> Hope this is helpful.  Best wishes.
>>
>> jonny
>>
>> ///
>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I am driving an MDD DUAL 1.25 MHz / 2 GB RAM / 2 - 120 GB and 1 -  
>>>> 200 GB HDD / NETSCAPE 9.0.0.6 / OS X.4.11 and of late my  
>>>> beachball has been spinning a lot more that ever before.
>>>>
>>>> It spins for no rhyme or reason that I can discern - I click on a  
>>>> folder on my desktop it spins, I open an application that I  
>>>> routinely use and it spins and the same with an application that  
>>>> I rarely use, I click on a website in Yahoo or any other search  
>>>> engine or browser and it spins and I click on an image and it  
>>>> spins, I click to send email and it spins!!!
>>>>
>>>> This is new to me and I need some guidance.
>>>>
>>>> Suggestion and opinions welcomed!!
>>>>
>>>> Dan Currie
>>>>
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