[G4] Spinning Beachball

[Luke Rademacher]

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
>>>