At 7:06 PM -0400 9/24/2008, billycarmacs wrote: >On two occasions, since upgrading to 10.5.5, my Finder seems to have >gotten into something that keeps it terribly, Beachball Spinning, >busy ...
The spinning color wheel is presented when the app is waiting for some resource to become available. >Today, I moved / installed a Seagate 80GB hard drive from my >PowerPC 8500 PCI ATA channel into an External Oxford FW case I used >to have a PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-106D drive in (but moved that one to >my QS since it's internal one was failing ... both the same model >from 2003) ... > >When it came up on the Desktop, I did a Get Info .... then my Finder >just went into Busy Mode ... I could open and play iTunes things, >open Mail and look around, but couldn't close them ... each got >stuck being partially closed ... and then there's the spinning >beachball when I navigate to the Desktop ... Take a look in system.log and console.log. There should be information there. Have Activity Monitor running, so you can get to it. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
