Leopard Freezes

[daisirazu]

This past week, Leopard on my MacBook (10.5.4, 2.4 GHz) has been giving me the pinwheel of death at seemingly random times. Changing a song in iTunes. Clicking a link in Google with Safari. Sometimes the pinwheel will resolve itself after waiting a couple of minutes, but usually I give up after four-five and hard restart with the power button.

I still have 116GB or so of hard drive space free. So I doubt it's that.

Two/Three weeks ago I picked up the iPhone 3g, but this problem didn't immediately begin with that -- some time passed. I'm not sure if there's a connection there.

I ran a hardware check with the install disk (long/short versions both) and everything came up OK.

Ideas?

[Satcomer]

Run some maintenance on that Mac to clean your Temp & Cache files. download either Yasu or Onyx and with either program run ALL the cleaning routines.

One warning: After the maintenance program auto-reboots your Mac and the system comes back up immediately reboot the Mac to rebuild your ShutDown/StartUp cache.

This should help the slowness of your Mac. Running this kind of maintenance once about every two months should keep your Mac running almost like new.

P.S.: see what your Mac is telling you open /Applications/Utilities/Console to view a plethora of Log files to see what your Mac is telling you.

[daisirazu]

That did it. Thanks!