The spinning cursor MAY spin for a long, long time....depending on what process is going on in the background....or it may mean nothing is happening.
If a lot of data is being assembled off a CD top mount a system you may wait a few minutes even on a fast system. I really hate it when I get impatient and interrupt a process because it leaves partial and inoperative resources on the drives. Remember when Mac installers used check the destination drive, install or update disk drivers and show a little white gloved hand with the fingers going up and down while files were being uncompressed and verified, and scripts compiled. Installers used to run a little script on the desktop saying what resources were being read into memory in preparation for writing tio disk ......and then the writing would commence. Now they just show a spinning cursor but all of that other stuff is still going on in the background. The faster your CD-ROM drive and processor the better, but things take time. M > On Sunday, March 23, 2003, at 05:00 PM, Wilton H. Shaw wrote: > > > > How long should I wait for the spinning ball to stop? > > Thanks > > > > Wilton > > -- "France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country. France has usually been governed by prostitutes." ---Mark Twain -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
