Try emptying caches. Preferences and Libraries might also need to be rebuilt. Perhaps others will weigh in on that. HTH jon Original Message: ----------------- From: Dan A Currie dancurr at frontiernet.net Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 22:10:05 -0600 To: g4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com Subject: [G4] Spinning wheel Hello All, My MDD DUAL 1.25 MHz / 2 GB RAM / 320 GB HD / NETSCAPE 7.2 / OS X.4.7 has suddenly begun wasting my time with the "spinning beach ball". It started this weekend has has become increasingly annoying. I have run Disk Utilities and Applejack but it persists. This MAChine has been bulletproof for almost 3 years and this is the first problem of any sort that I have had. Good ideas and suggestions welcome ... TIA, Dan -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web LIVE Free email based on Microsoft® Exchange technology - http://link.mail2web.com/LIVE