I have the latest version of iTunes and every time I tried to delete a track/put it in the trash I get the beach ball/wheel of death. It takes a minute just to put up one track in the trash. I have eight gig of memory and running a 2009 iMac. Any answers to fix my problem? Thank you
Mac OS X (10.6.6)
Hi DJohnny,
I've had the same problem a few weeks ago myself. If I wanted to edit the track info or delete a track it would take forever when the spinning beach ball appeared. I couldn't figure out why until I notice that my music folder was over 300 GB. Between that and the space that the operating system consumed, I had very little hard drive space. My mac only had a 500GB hard drive. After I moved my music to an external drive, my iTunes response is much snappier and there's no more spinning beach ball if I edited a track information or delete a track. I hope that help you a little.
Hi DJohnny,
I've had the same problem a few weeks ago myself. If I wanted to edit the track info or delete a track it would take forever when the spinning beach ball appeared. I couldn't figure out why until I notice that my music folder was over 300 GB. Between that and the space that the operating system consumed, I had very little hard drive space. My mac only had a 500GB hard drive. After I moved my music to an external drive, my iTunes response is much snappier and there's no more spinning beach ball if I edited a track information or delete a track. I hope that help you a little.
That could be the problem as I have the same hard disk as you with only 120 gig left. Does iTunes play your music library flawlessly with it being on an external hard drive?
ITunes 12.3 deleting songs takes forever/wheel of death
