spinning rainbow??

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I'm new to OSX so pardon what may be a dumb question. I'm using a G4 400 (PCI), 256 RAM with OSX (10.2). Everything was fine for the first couple of months but for the last couple of days, every action is met with 4-5 seconds (sometimes longer) of the "spinning rainbow". Everything else seems to be fine. It is really getting annoying though. Thanks for any insight or help given.
 
That was happening to my iBook. I still don't know what it was. I just... restarted. Restart your mac. After that, open the Disk Utility program inside the Utilities folder of the Applications folder. Once there, select REPAIR DISK PERMISSIONS. Find something to do for the next 20 minutes... hehe.

If those two things do nothing for you, oops, sorry for wasting your time.
 
you might want to consider defragmenting your disk. you will need a 3rd party app for this.
 
Ah the spinning beachball,the artist was obviously so proud of his creation he wanted you & us to see it as much as possible! :) This happened on mine too, try this i dont know why it works so much but ive seen it work on mine and then on of my friends systems. Open the utilities folder (In the applications Folder) Open the program Directory Access. U will need to stick in your admin password on the lock to make changes here,Once authorised turn off, by unticking the boxes,LDAP services and rendezvous.Hopefully this will solve ur probs.
J
 
On recent Powerbooks, and maybe iBooks, there is a feature that will cause a 4 to 5 second beach ball whenever a sound is requested.

The computers are putting the sound system to sleep. This conserves power. You can download "Keep Awake" from versiontracker.com. It let's you modify the sleep behavior.
 
So far.....the REPAIR DISK PERMISSIONS" seems to have cleared this up...I also did a defrag using Drive 10 as it had probably been too long since the last time. Thanks again.
 
i may have spoke too soon....it is still popping up.....not as often though....seems more noticeable when using apple mail (1.2). i'll see if i can narrow it down and maybe come back with another question.
 
Originally posted by jove
On recent Powerbooks, and maybe iBooks, there is a feature that will cause a 4 to 5 second beach ball whenever a sound is requested.

The computers are putting the sound system to sleep. This conserves power. You can download "Keep Awake" from versiontracker.com. It let's you modify the sleep behavior.
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THANK YOU! I've been looking for this for weeks!
 
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