Spinning Ball after wakeup from Sleep for a long time

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Spinning Ball after wakeup from Sleep for a long time

If I wakeup my iMac after it has been a sleep overnight, the spinning ball appears does not stop. I am not able to click on anything with the mouse and the keyboard is not responsive. In other words, everything freezes up.

I have an external hard drive hooked up to the computer, if that is relevant.

Any suggestions on how to fix this?

iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.2)

Posted on Jan 12, 2010 9:03 PM

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Answer 1

Dah•veed

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Jan 12, 2010 9:34 PM in response to Jerry Johnson

How much RAM is installed? How many apps are your leaving opened when you sleep the Mac?

Dah•veed

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Answer 2

Jan 13, 2010 6:24 PM in response to Dah•veed

I have 3 GBs of RAM. I typically have 3-4 apps running such as Safari, Firefox, and Word. This morning my computer woke up fine and there wasn't a spinning ball. I don't think I did anything yesterday that would have fixed the problem. Prior to this morning, I was having the spinning ball/freeze problem for the previous 4 days.

If the problem goes away, I'll post back to this forum.

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