I use Mavericks 10.9.2. Just lately whenever I try to drag a file into a folder, or almost anything I do, I keep getting the spinning beach ball. The only way I know how to get out of the spinning beach ball mode is to shut off the Mac at the Mac Pro on/off switch. What's going on?😕
Try to avoid using the power switch to force the computer to shut down. That can cause file corruption & just make things worse. Instead, first try force quitting any apps that hang: hold down the option & command keys & press the escape key. Any apps that are not responding will show up in red & you can select & force quit them from there.
You should run Disk Utility & use the "Verify Disk" (not [permissions) check on your startup drive. If that shows any problems, follow the instructions to restart from the recovery partition & run Disk Utility's "Repair Disk" from there.
Also make sure you have plenty of free space on your startup drive, ideally at least 10-15% of its total capacity.
I used the Escape strokes the next time the spinning beach ball appeared. The app the showed up red was the "Finder." I have plenty of free space. Please see Picture 1.
Try clicking the Disk Utility "Verify Disk" button & see what (if anything) it finds wrong with the Mac HD volume.
Enclosed please find picture of Disk Utility. It appears that nothing is wrong.....
Hmmm. When I do the same thing with my startup drive I get this in the details window:
Note that in mine it says "performing live verification," lists more checks, & ends with the green 'OK' message. I'm not sure why your details are different or there is no green 'OK' message at the end.
Were you started up normally from this drive? Did you see a warning message that your computer may be slow or non-responsive while the verification is being done?
yes. Oh, and by the way, prior to this problem, my Verifying volume "macHd" used to look like yours - with the green OK message at the end.
And this is the very first time that the spinning beach ball has appeared since I began using this Mac back in September 2013.
I used to experience a few freezes, but I could always "restart" to get back to a fully functioning Mac.
At this point I can only suggest two things:
1. Download & run Etrecheck & post the results. You may have some third party item installed that is interfering with normal operation. Etrecheck is designed to help identify such things.
2. Boot into recovery mode (hold down command + R on restart) & reinstall the OS. Some components of the OS may have become damaged (always a possibility if the system has frequently been forced to shut down abnormally), so reinstalling it may be the easiest & simplest way to fix that.
Since #2 is more time consuming, I suggest trying #1 first. If we don't see anything suspicious from that, try #2.
Enclosed please find picture of Etrecheck results.
Copy to clipboard and paste the whole report here.
Thanks
Pete
Please provide instructions on how to copy to clipboard and paste the whole report there.😕
Clicking on the bottom as in your picture on Copy To Clipboard and then just reply to a post here and paste.
Pete
Enclosed please see picture 1 - 4.
Remove Cocktail and CleanApp
CleanApp can make quite a mess of things, and you are running it all the time.
Why is Beach Ball Showing Up So Much?
