[Manatee]

Finder in Panther on Powerbook stuck on spinning beach ball. Thus, installer, clock (frozen), apps (such as Safari, Activity Monitor) will not open (but others: Eudora, IE browser, Classic, itunes will).

Can't open icon on system preferences in Finder. Thus, can not create new user. Similar problem replicates booting from backup drive synchronized with Carbon Cloner).

Difficult to shut down.

Logging out just produces a blank screen.

Suggestions (other than reinstalling system)?

Thank you.

[Podolsky]

Originally posted by Manatee:


Suggestions (other than reinstalling system)?

Thank you.

Were or are you connected to any servers? The only time I get long beach ball spins is when I lose or break connections to servers. In any event, you should not need to reinstall.....run cocktail or similar and reboot.

[Manatee]

Originally posted by Podolsky:
Were or are you connected to any servers? The only time I get long beach ball spins is when I lose or break connections to servers. In any event, you should not need to reinstall.....run cocktail or similar and reboot.

The 'genius' at the Apple store today told me to do an archived reinstall.

I was able to download cocktail.

Do I run "pilot" with everything checked or what do I do specifically?

What other programs are similar to cocktail?

Thank you.

[Manatee]

It appears to be hanging up (no cursor movement on the progress line; spinning beach ball) on cleaning cache (sigh)....

[Podolsky]

Originally posted by Manatee:
It appears to be hanging up (no cursor movement on the progress line; spinning beach ball) on cleaning cache (sigh)....

I consider reinstalling a last resort. Than again, I don't have a sign that says "genius" on my desk either.

When I run Cocktail in pilot mode, I have all the boxes checked.

You have 3 caches that Cocktail purges, System, User, and Internet. You might try trashing them manually yourself. Call the genius back and give him this new info. He will probably tell you to reinstall. When all you have is a hammer, all you see are nails......

I take it that you are not on a local network or connnected to any servers? I ask only because the only time I get long spins is when my machine looses its connection to a server.

[Manatee]

I deleted some cache files, safe rebooted, and found I could run Cocktail.

It works fine now. Thank you.

[Manatee]

I have the same problem back again. Does anyone have any other suggestions? Thank you.

[Ω]

Any processes hogging your CPU?

[movabi]

I have beachball problems too.... I have a folder with more than 27,000 plus images that takes at least 4 minutes to open. I have not heard a good reason why the finder locks out all processes until its done calculating. I don't know if its my ancient dual 1gig with 1.5gigs ram. Probably doesn't happen on G5, but since i do not have one, i can't tell you for sure. I have another folder with 57,000 plus images... i won't even go there...

[Ω]

Originally posted by movabi:
I have beachball problems too.... I have a folder with more than 27,000 plus images that takes at least 4 minutes to open. I have not heard a good reason why the finder locks out all processes until its done calculating. I don't know if its my ancient dual 1gig with 1.5gigs ram. Probably doesn't happen on G5, but since i do not have one, i can't tell you for sure. I have another folder with 57,000 plus images... i won't even go there...

How much p0rn are you downloading???