[X4U] imac and beach ball

[Randy B. Singer]

On May 20, 2008, at 12:39 AM, alexandre wrote:

> randy, one last question: would this kind of behaviour be "normal"  
> if i were dragging windows and opening safari WHILE installing  
> software off of an external firewire drive?

The rotating beachball is a "wait cursor."  It is not at all  
necessarily a sign that there is a problem.  It comes up whenever you  
have to wait a pre-determined amount of time before the requested  
function will be finished.  So, if you are performing several actions  
at the same time, and they will take some time to complete, it is  
completely normal for the rotating beachball to show up.

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

Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance
http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html
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