Get the spinning color wheel when I try to watch video on [URL]. I can watch the initial advertisement, but when it is time for the video to play I get the spinning color wheel and eventually says Plug in Failed. Nov 13, 2018  About 1-month ago my Office for Mac 2011 started giving a spinning color wheel when in Excel or Word. The wheel (delay) happens when opening a new workbook or document, when pasting and during other standard operations. The the wheel spins. A multi-color spinning wheel, sometimes referred to as the beach ball of death, has replaced the watch. Users encounter the wheel any time the computer must pause for a few seconds to consider the next command or action. Unfortunately, there are times when more than just a user's patience is required to stop the spinning wheel. The rotating color wheel or 'spinning beach ball' seen above — generally indicates that your Mac® is known as 'The Spinning Beach Ball of Death' The spinning wait cursor is a variation of the mouse pointer arrow, used in Apple' s OS X to indicate that an application is busy.

Safari spinning wheel when moving from video clip back to page in Facebook. Only way back to quit safari and re launch. Running mountain lion 10.8.5 and Safari 6.2.7 Here is the relevant console content for the time of crash.

These Login Items are the programs that launch when your iMac starts up. If, after un-checking all of the programs, the iMac starts up normally, then you can go through the individual programs to identify which is causing the freezing issue. Verify and Repair iMac Disk Errors A frozen iMac can be also attributed to the, especially if your iMac is equipped with a traditional spinning hard drive (while most modern iMacs are with Fusion Drives or SSDs). When your Mac hard drive is faulty or under-performing, chances are your overall system performance is going to be taxed. Thankfully, Apple Disk Utility allows you to verify and repair potential disk issues. Select Disk Utility from Applications. Click on your hard drive.

If you have the same problem that I had, your mac should start to cool and your mac should start operating properly again (it may take a few minutes). If this works, you'll then need to download FAN CONTROL FOR MAC. It's a control panel that better regulates the temperature of your mac than the standard settings. I have been cussing out this Apple for many months now, maybe years, and when AppleCare was in effect and i would mention the stupid pinwheel to anyone they would just ignore my comment.

Oh, that's called, I think, the spinning wheel of doom. It sorta means your mac is stuck on something. Try using 'Activity Monitor' to see what it's stuck on. See if you can force quit that application. How much Ram do you have on board? Some things can be memory hogs and may not let go. For starters, try running disk utility and repairing permissions.

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Patience may be a virtue, but in the case of Mac OS X's dreaded spinning pinwheel process indicator, even the most tranquil users can find themselves more than a tad anxious for the standard arrow cursor to re-appear and normal system operation to appear. While virtually all users will experience a spinning pinwheel (and associated unresponsiveness from a specific application, a group of applications or the entire system) from time to time, there are a number of measures you can take to lessen the occurrence of these incidents and eliminate standstills. Add more RAM The primary cause for overall slowness in Mac OS X and unresponsiveness from applications is a lack of adequate memory. For most users, 512 MB is the amount of RAM at which most unresponsiveness and spinning-wheel sessions dissipate. In other words, 384 MB of RAM may leave you in a lurch, while 640 MB of RAM won't provide a huge speed increase over 512 MB.

They just run a kind of apple test suit on an external OSX, I guess they booted from a firewire disk. Anyway, now I getting very often a system hang with a spinning wheel. When I try to repair permissions in the Disk Utility, the progress it stays like 10 minutes on the same place at the very beginning, then spinning wheel again then the system doesn't react.

Every open application, even if it is not performing any noticeable tasks, uses a portion of the Mac OS X virtual memory block. Closing unnecessary or infrequently used applications can therefore result in a reduction of spinning-wheel episodes. More uptime, more stalls: Restart more often Although Mac OS X was designed to run 24 hours a day without a restart and does so well in most cases, some user set-ups may -- for varying reasons -- benefit from more frequent restarts. Dealing with most notorious culprit: Safari The application implicated in far more spinning-wheel stall instances than any other is Apple's own Safari.

The bottom table shows System load in percentage. If it’s way above 50% and remains there for long, especially without any specific reason like games or heavy rendering programs, this might be the signal your processor is the bottleneck. Fix: If your processor is overworking regularly, only buying a new Mac will fix the problem entirely. Possible issue: Low disk space You don’t even need to have a full startup disk to see the nasty ball.

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MacBook Pro:: Spinning Wheel On Start Up - Cannot Login May 28, 2012 Cannot log on-perpetual spinning wheel.How can I re-boot? Info: MacBook Pro (15-inch 2.4/2.2 GHz), iOS 5 Similar Messages: • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • ADVERTISEMENT Dec 11, 2014 I have tried to login but it is stuck loading and shows the spinning rainbow wheel and hasnt moved changed in a while what do I do?? Info: MacBook Air Sep 28, 2008 I'm really stuck with this one. I have just purchased 2 Macs, an iMac and a Macbook (the white one).

I just got my imac 21.5 a week ago, and now already a problem. It was working fine until now.

I have tried putting in the mac osx cd in and nothing happened but the cd won't come out anymore so now every time I switch the laptop it tries to start the cd. Info: MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5) May 11, 2012 I did a software update and now MacBook pro is stuck on grey screen with spinning wheel. Turned off and on, still the wheel is spinning.

My issue is I lost my snow leopard OS X while I moved and want to know if I could buy the $30 disc cuz I have everything BUT my OS X disc unfortunately. Info: iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.7) Jun 4, 2014 Since the last software upgrade all I get is spinning wheel even after resetting Info: MacBook Pro Aug 31, 2014 I have a Mac Pro from late 2008 which turns on, makes the startup sound, and remains on the spinning wheel for about 30 seconds before the wheel freezes. I have Windows 8 installed on another internal drive and I can't boot past their version of the spinning wheel, either. I've tried booting off of the install disc (Snow Leopard, which is what the machine is running) and off of a USB stick with a Snow Leopard.dmg on it, neither of which have worked.

It will usually be named Macintosh HD. • Click Verify Disk Permissions. • If any errors are found, click Repair Disk Permissions. Close Open Apps Some apps take up more memory and CPU than others. It’s a good idea to close apps when you’re not using them.

After which you can apply a spin animation. • Repeat the animation so it continues until the next mouse click.

Vmware or parallels software for mac. Sometimes it will last only a few seconds and disappear, when processing cycles are freed up and the application is able to process all the tasks it needs to. Other times, the application will become persistently unresponsive and 'hang'. When that happens, the only solution is to force quit the app. Quick ways to get rid of a spinning ball To fix an application stuck with a spinning cursor: • If you know which app is hanging, press Cmd-alt-escape and you'll see the Force Quit dialog box. The problematic app will be shown as 'not responding.' • Select the app and press Force Quit.

Every now and it does this for just a few seconds. At first I though maybe it lost my home Wifi signal, but it's showing 4 full bars.

If any hardware is in jeopardy, I'd rather just throw it away. However, I would like to at least be able to start it in Mac OS once so that I can back up my documents. Jul 5, 2012 'Ive had a MacBookPro for about a year and a half - with zero problems to report. But, yesterday, I decided to do a software update for OSX. While waiting on it, I relaized I was running late for an appointment, got impatient and did a forced shutdown (stupid move, I now know). Anyway, upon restarting it, I get the usual start-up chime, then the grey screen with the apple logo and the spinning wheel - and then it stays there. I tried putting the operating syten disc in and did a start-up - same results. Ditto for safe start. I also tried to reset the NVRAM, got the second chime, then back to the same. Is there anything you folks can suggest? Is there a way to override this and get back to normal? I hope I'm merely having hiccups related to the operating system. Or could this be a sign of the dreaded logic board failure that I fear? Info: MacBook Pro Dec 2, 2014 My Macbook Pro is stuck at the loading screen with the apple logo and a spinning wheel!

By pressing the power button — as opposed to just unplugging the cord — the computer can safely restart. If your iMac reboots and functions normally upon restart, the issue may have been a temporary minor glitch. Troubleshoot in Safe Mode If your iMac continually freezes up during boot, you can operate in Safe Mode to troubleshoot the root issue. To enter Safe mode, turn on your iMac, hold the Shift key until you see the gray Apple logo.

The results can be enlightening. For example, we found that cache files for the Photos app were taking up 8GB space on our Mac. Uncheck and items you don't want to remove and then click Clean. Repeat for the other categories. For more information on how to free up space on your Mac, we prepare these. Install more RAM If none of the the above, there is one final thing you can try.

Are you connected to any remote drives via any means when you experience this? I've found that when things are going well, OS X's drive handling is good. But when things get flaky, it doesn't properly reprioritize and work around blocks. So if your network mounted drive was asked for a directory listing just prior to a write to another drive (saving preferences?) then maybe one IO activity is blocking another IO activity. (Reads are higher priority than writes usually) Run CPU Monitor, and see if CPU usage during these crapout periods is abnormal, and if so, if it's system time or app time that's out of line. Originally posted by theed Are you connected to any remote drives via any means when you experience this?

The iMac menu bar includes the Force Quit function. You can also control-click on the app, press Option, and click on Force Quit. However, in some instances, the mouse may also be frozen and you might not be able to access Force Quit. If this occurs, you can use the keyboard shortcut for Force Quit: Command + Option + ESC.

I have been copying and pasting pictures and avatars from forums onto Microsoft office (office mac 2008). And tonight I got the dreadful color spinning wheel when I tried to copy more.

I don't know what your issue is, but it's not the Finder. It could be virtually anything though from what you say. Could be a bad sector an your HD, maybe flaky RAM, maybe a bad library file. It could be hardware or software, system or application level, About the only thing we can fairly well rule out is the kernel, and other Applications. I'd try running some diagnostics and see if you can find file corruption or anything of that sort.

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There aren't any files on the computer that i neccesarely need but if i would be able to save my photo's etc. It would be great. Apr 14, 2012 I just tried to upgrade my iMac to snow leopard (10.6.3) from cd.It remains stuck on the start page since hours: white page with grey apple logo and no spinning wheel or progression bar. Info: iMac Aug 24, 2009 I can barely type this post or do anything on my mac book pro without a spinning wheel popping up. Any help would be appreciated.

Fortunately, there are a few things that you can do to help get rid of the spinning color wheel. Permissions Repair Files, folders and applications all have certain permissions settings, determining whether they can be written on or read-only. From time to time, these permissions can get damaged, preventing the file or program from opening or running smoothly and creating overall computer performance issues. The best way to combat this is by doing a permissions repair using the Disk Utility program. It comes standard with all apple computers and OSX operating systems, and is typically found in the applications folder. Simply open the program, select your hard drive, and click 'repair permissions.'

As an application uses up available RAM, Mac OS X's virtual memory system allocates swap file space on the root file system (your startup disk) for use by the application. With too little physical RAM, this swapping will occur more frequently resulting in two consequences: • Since all mass storage devices (hard drives, flash memory, etc.) are significantly slower at moving data in and out than physical RAM, applications will suffer a significant speed hit and stall more often.

What should I do next, or what am I doing wrong? Vetaut Info: iMac Jun 15, 2012 For a couple of days now the activity wheel on my incoming iCloud/mac.com mailbox won't stop spinning.Mail seems 'extra' active in Activity Monitor but I cannont discern what it is doing very long log file with no obvious crashes or repeating patterns (to my amateur eye).There is no send/receive activity indicated in the Mail Activity pane of Mail just the wheel spinning constantly in my mac.com inbox.I seem to receive all the mail sent to that account so nothing obvious being blocked or missing just the constant activity. I've rebuilt the mailbox but that didn't help.It has been fine up to a couple of days ago and I've not sent nor received any odd or very large files. Apr 24, 2012 I have a very old IMac which I purchased back in 2005, and has been working fine. I have left it in storage about 1 and 1/2 years ago.

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