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Level 1

14 points

10.6.4 / iTunes complete FREEZE

I'm on 2.4 GHz IC2D iMac. I just updated to 10.6.4 this morning.

I usually listen to iTunes in the background as I write emails or use Safari.
I keep iTunes in the "mini-player" mode. Since updating to 10.6.4, every
time I hit the "+" button to maximize iTunes from mini-player mode, the finder freezes.
The music still plays, the mouse cursor still moves but everything else
(and I mean everything) is completely frozen.

I have to use the power-button to turn off and reboot.

Any ideas?

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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.3)

Posted on Jun 16, 2010 9:49 AM

19 replies

Sep 1, 2010 1:09 AM in response to ph47

I am seeing similar symptoms. I regularly have iTunes playing music while I work. Sometimes everything freezes apart from the mouse pointer and the music. You can move the mouse pointer as usual, but no user interface elements respond to it; the machine is similarly unresponsive to the keyboard, the displayed time is not updated, etc. The music starts playing at the end of the current track.

I don't believe that clicking the maximise button causes symptoms in my case. I regularly maximise and minimise iTunes.

The hatter

Level 9

60,990 points

Sep 1, 2010 1:35 AM in response to Lawrence C Paulson

Try using different USB cables and devices and limit to just what is needed and swapping any extension cables. Faulty USB cables, hubs and devices, and OS X losing communication with devices.

Then give your system a good dose of Disk Warrior on a cloned system.

zit

Level 1

46 points

Sep 6, 2010 7:33 AM in response to ph47

iTunes 10.0 still doesn't fix the frequent beachballs. Still unusable for videos and almost unusable for audio or media management. All of iTunes 9 has passed by without a fix. Pathetic.

Sep 6, 2010 7:50 AM in response to zit

Has anyone created a new user account to see if their current account is the problem?

Why not?

10.6.4 / iTunes complete FREEZE