[linkboy]

I get the beachball of death quite often.
G5 2.3GHZ 2.5 Gb ram OS 10.4.5
also running Symantec

Looks like it happens when I try to do something with a file which has not yet completed a save. Example, the file is MS Word and I want to move it to a thumb drive.

It seems related to another problem. After I drag the file onto the floppy, it is sometime (5 minutes) before I am allowed to remove the drive.

[JKT]

Your problem is (probably) right there in your message - "also running symantec"

Do you have it set to scan external or attached media/drives. I bet you do.

Also, if you are using the heuristics features or any form of monitoring feature of symantec's it will slow things down.

[ghporter]

Symantec will indeed slow you down in accessing (read or write) external drives-or even CDs you haven't inerted before. But since it uses heuristics, it "learns" what's what, and should eventually recognize your common connections more and more quickly.

eBay has a lot of dynamic content on every page, and it's not as well written as it should be. At least they don't make their pages Windows/IE specific! But it's eBay, NOT your machine, that makes this stuff slow.

[tooki]

The three posts above were originally responses to this ancient thread.

Please, folks, don't resurrect ancient threads. Our rules are clear on this, specifying a maximum of six months from the last post.

tooki

[seanc]

Why not move all threads from a certain date to the archives then?

[ghporter]

Archiving takes work-sometimes lots of it. With all we have going on dealing with new Macs, Boot Camp, etc. it's hard enough to keep up with daily stuff.

To be honest, I missed the date in the last old post-if I noticed it at all, I glazed over the year. My bad; I should have mentioned it and truncated the old thread to make a new one, as tooki did above. That doesn't make it right-I'm sitting in a virtual corner with a virtual dunce cap right now because I responded and didn't even mention the antiquity of the thread. <

[seanc]

You're only human, I hope.

Have you read my thread in the feedback forum?
http://forums.macnn.com/61/feedback/296086/do-you-think-we-could-do/

[F*ckDell]

tooki... do you have a job besides being the front runner for rules on this page??

Not to hurt your feeling or anything, but every time I read a thread you put your 2 cents about rules and whatnot. You got into a "fight" with me over sig. when I STILL see a lot of people with over sized sigs...

just checking playboy...

[tooki]

Uh, enforcing the rules is the job of a moderator. It's the whole point of having moderators.

The "fight" was you not following the rules, and getting cocky with me, after being told repeatedly to fix your sig. It's not my fault that you refused to read the rules even after I told you where to find them, and that you needed to read them to know what the sig rules are. You used up my patience (after 4 messages back and forth, with what should have taken one), and so I gave you a simple ultimatum. It was really rather simple.

If there are others with oversize sigs, it's because a) I can only tell people to fix their sig when I have seen it, and b) people are always changing or adding new sigs. It's not a one-time job. Each one I see will be responded to. But at the same time that I do that, new non-compliant sigs will be created. It's not possible to maintain 100% compliance as long as new members register.

As for archiving: I have been telling the person who's done archiving in the past to do it. I don't know why it hasn't happened.

tooki