<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">I'm assuming /Preferences and ~/Preferences. <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>But now I wonder if simply deleting some obvious preferences individually would have made a difference? <FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande">com.apple.finder.plist comes to mind. </FONT>Also, creating a new User account and seeing if the slowdowns/beachballs still occurred would have at least localized the problem to one folder or the other.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On May 12, 2007, at 5:38 PM, Daly Jessup wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">At 8:21 AM -0700 5/12/07, James Hurley wrote:</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">I wanted to give you an update on the resolution of this problem.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">The problem: almost every action presented the spinning beach ball: accessing menues, typing in a field, etc. Even trying to change the name of a folder presented problems--after a few letters the cursor jumped to a new file. Really bizarre stuff.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">After some frustration I called Apple Care and they were very helpful.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">After a number of diagnostic efforts it was decided that my preferences files were corrupted. Deleting these two library folders solved the problem.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">WHICH two library folders?</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>