Pinwheels & Freezes in Mail, Quicktime PlayerX
Hello,
I recenty installed Lion 10.7.2 fresh onto my MacPro (3,1) - 12 gigs memory. (No Leopard upgrade - just Lion). This setup also has a non Apple SSD drive as the boot (60 gigs) and 500 gig hard drive where my Home folder lives.
I did migrate a few user settings (like Mail and Mail downloads) to the new Lion setup from my Snow Leopard Back up (10.6.7) I do have lots of Mail active and and a fair amount archived on my Mac.
I also am still using MobileMe and not iCloud yet.
Problem:
The problem seems to be that upon first boot and opening Mail or double clicking a quicktime so Quicktime Player X opens, both have big pauses until the spinning pinwheel goes away. They do eventually disappear, but with mail that can be up to 5 minutes. With Quicktime Player X, its about 1-2 minutes. Also upon wake from sleep, even if Mail is running, it still gives this long pause before eventually giving up the beachball and comes to life.
I have tried numerous fixes to troubleshoot and isolate the problem, but have still am uncertain if this is an hard drive problem, an internet problem, or a memory problem. It certainly 'seems' to be a Lion issue.
Solutions I have tried:
- Repair Disk Permsions (with boot drive and off the Lion Install DVD)
- Cloned SSD to another SSD different and brand new SSD and booted from that.
- Ran Cocktail muliple times.
- Ran Activity Monitor and Little Snitch before starting Mail and Quicktime X, but there doesn't seem to me to be anything obvious going on other than the app is 'not responding' in Activity Monitor. However, although I think I know a lot, I am not an expert with these apps and the lower processes going on here.
- Quicktime Player 7 Pro, does not exhibit the "Pause" Quicktime Player X does.
Hopefully I have given enough info here for an Apple Expert to help isolate the issue.
Thanks
Doug
Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2), 12g RAM, 64g SSD boot, 500g user