spinning beach ball with every click

Hi Eric, believe I followed your directions, to no avail. Note my mail accounts are gone as well. What a disaster, all I wanted to do is make my computer a little faster.

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Eric, I have a Time Machine backup, can I use it to get my preferences, desktop info, and user folder from there? Thanks.

Eric, all of my files are gone, photos, music, all of it.

BTW, thanks, Warwick.

You are welcome. Can you restore them from Time Machine?

Hi Eric,

I do have a backup, unfortunately it's two weeks old so it's missing an important video; I keep my backup drive in a fireproof safe and not connected 24/7. Anyway, thanks a lot for your attention to my pleas for help. Also, I was frustrated and being snotty when I "thanked" the person named Warwick, the support contributor whose instructions I believe I followed to the letter, and instead of cleaning the cache the instructions deleted just about everything from my hard drive.

Thanks for the help!

You are welcome.

Not sure what 'thread jacking' is. Sounds made-up. But surely the individual is simply sharing his problem and asking

for help?

Same here. Even scrolling the page freezes or even typing.

I did as this post suggested and it worked:

Eric RootMay 20, 2015 10:56 AM Re: spinning beach ball with every click
Re: spinning beach ball with every clickin response to ehs1979

I have a 2011 iMac still running Snow Leopard. It has been a dependable machine. I was out of town for a week and powered it off. Since turning it on again, the spinning ball happens as soon as I click anything. I can't even perform a Time Machine backup (although I do have recent ones so I'm not too worried about losing anything). If I let the ball just spin, everything goes black and nonresponsive, although the engine is still running.

I have no clue what is going on. Yesterday I did an erase and reinstall of OSX, followed by restoring from my latest Time Machine backup. It's significant to note that during the reinstall and restore the iMac behaved normally, allowing all the functions and clicks, e.g., Continue, etc.

However, once it restarted and I was back at my Desktop with all icons and apps as they should be, the spinning ball returned.

Although I used my MacBook Pro 95% of the time, I still like a larger screen desktop for some of my apps. This iMac is 5 years old and I don't want to spend much money or invest more of my time futzing with things if it's a serious issue. I'm about ready to replace it, but I hate to be bested by these things. It just makes no sense what has caused this, short of a catastrophic internal failure.

You might want to consider starting a new post in the Snow Leopard community since this post dates back to 2014. People may be less likely to look at it.

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Thank you Eric. I will do that.

OMG I followed the advice from the original poster Acousticmirror and performed the two fixes in "terminal" and I have now lost everything I had on my desktop and my computer.!!

What the **** do I do now? Is it all lost? Please someone .can anyone help me? Right now my account is there without any data whatsoever, no desktop icons etc.