[X4U] imac and beach ball

[Randy B. Singer]

On May 20, 2008, at 12:57 PM, alexandre wrote:

> ok. but on the other hand i'm doing stuff that previously wasn't  
> provoking this quite of behaviour: using safari while installing  
> office2008 and dragging a few windows. i'm sure now that i'm  
> getting the beach ball when a program is accessing the hard drive  
> (copy, install, …)


I can't put my hands on a citation just now, but I should point out  
that doing other things with your computer while installing software  
is generally considered a bad idea and a source of potential problems.

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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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