[X4U] OK now it's happening with TWO apps

[Randy B.Singer]

Jesse Leo said:

>Not only does Safari just bounce, bounce, bounce and then stop bouncing
>without opening, but now MAIL is doing the same thing. Also there is a whole
>lotta beach-balling going on at random times. It almost seems like it's a
>FINDER issue or something else. Any ideas?


Applications launching and then quitting is usually caused by corrupted 
user preferences.

I would first try:

Preferential Treatment (free) 
http://homepage.mac.com/jonn8/as/

If that doesn't help, I would try manually uninstalling the prefs files 
for the effected applications.

For a discussion of beachball-of-death problems, see:
http://www.macattorney.com/tutorial.html 
Item #'s 1, 2, and especially 3.
Often this problem is caused by a bad USB peripheral.  Try detaching 
everything other than your mouse and keyboard (and if those are 
third-party products, use the original Apple devices instead) and then 
restart and see if the problem is gone.)



Randy B. Singer
Co-Author of: The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th and 6th editions)

Routine OS X Maintenance and Generic Troubleshooting
http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html