[Ti] I am tired of spinning beachballs

[Dave Friesen]

Two things. Run Fix Disk Permissions more than once. Sounds like voodoo fixin' and it probably is.

Secondly, did you use Software Updater to upgrade to 10.2.4? If so I've seen several reports that reinstalling the Combo 10.2.4 updater (download from Apple) has been helpful. Don't worry about your User files, you can just install over you existing OS and the User data will be intact. (Of course backing up before hand is, ahem, always wise).

One last thing, (I know I said two but I'm a designer, don't ask us to do math) is that if you haven't rebooted in a long, long time, do so.

Enough "spells" without resorting to the "evil" Terminal? :-)

On Monday, March 10, 2003, at 04:22AM, Mark Swanson <mswanson9988 at comcast.net> wrote:

>Since I upgraded to 10.2.4 I see way to much of spinning beachballs and 
>bouncing dock items.  Sometimes the first application boots quickly, 
>but any subsequent application bounces for literally minutes.  My Mail 
>application invariably gives me a spinning beachball  and after a 
>considerable wait, tells me it can't locate the spelling checker and, 
>of course, fails to input the last half of the sentence I was typing.  
>What did I do wrong.  Everything was snappy before.  Now it acts like 
>its working on something much more important than what I want to do.  
>Ran disk utility (and fixed permissions) and Drive 10.  No problems.  
>Is there something I need to do.  Also, I waited a couple of weeks to 
>mention this thinking that maybe things would correct themselves, or it 
>would finish doing what was dominating its time.  Do I need to cast 
>some "terminal" spells?