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An Apple question please.
Apr 23, 2017 09:01:59 #
onepictureatatime
Loc: St. Louis, Missouri
I am still fairly new on a Mac Pro laptop. I get a rotating "beachball" once in awhile and I am not sure why. I was wondering if anyone could explain what I was doing wrong, so I could stop doing it.
Thank you for any and all help.
Tim Kuelker
Thank you for any and all help.
Tim Kuelker
Apr 23, 2017 09:18:15 #
Apr 23, 2017 09:19:59 #
You aren't doing anything wrong. It's one of the quirks of a Mac. Something's going on inside the computer that makes you wait a bit for it to go on to what you want it to do. Everyone's Mac does this, as far as I know. Waiting a bit once in a while is still much better than fighting with a PC and all their quirks. Enjoy your laptop.
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Apr 23, 2017 09:24:52 #
jaymatt wrote:
You aren't doing anything wrong. It's one of the quirks of a Mac. Something's going on inside the computer that makes you wait a bit for it to go on to what you want it to do. Everyone's Mac does this, as far as I know. Waiting a bit once in a while is still much better than fighting with a PC and all their quirks. Enjoy your laptop.
PC's / Windows has had Flipping Hour Glasses, Rotating Circles and the like to let you know the computer is doing something. Windows 10 is Working rather well. I hear with Macs since Steve Jobs died...
Apr 23, 2017 19:01:02 #
onepictureatatime
Loc: St. Louis, Missouri
Thank you for the quick replies. I is good to know I have not done something wrong for a change.
Tim.
Tim.
Apr 24, 2017 07:19:16 #
Try closing all your open files. They slow it down and you get the beachball.
Apr 24, 2017 08:02:00 #
hj
Loc: Florida
Yes the beachball on a Mac indicates the Mac is doing something. Just be patient. If it is happening rather frequently, you may want to increase your ram by getting larger sticks of ram or adding more ram if you have open ports. Just last night I ordered more ram from MacSales (Other World Computing) to increase my iMac from 8 to 24 GB. Their ram is priced well and comes with a lifetime warranty. The company itself is well regarded in the Mac community. I have used their ram in other computers with no problem.
Apr 24, 2017 09:54:35 #
jaymatt wrote:
Waiting a bit once in a while is still much better than fighting with a PC and all their quirks.
I thought this was a question about an Apple laptop but now that it is turning into a rant about PCs it's time to unwatch this and move on to other things.
Apr 24, 2017 10:09:16 #
jaycoffman
Loc: San Diego
Sometimes it lasts long enough that I have to close Safari to get rid of it. Sometimes it's holding up everything and I have to force-quit to close the program.
Apr 24, 2017 10:41:18 #
Be careful of "experts" telling you to "upgrade the RAM" on your MacBook Pro - unless it's an OLD, OLD MacBook Pro (no newer than mid 2012), there is no "upgrading the RAM" on a MacBook Pro.
I get quite the hearty laugh out of the Apple "experts" on this forum!
I get quite the hearty laugh out of the Apple "experts" on this forum!
Apr 24, 2017 11:18:00 #
The Mac operating system keeps track of everything you do and compiles that data in cache files. The spinning beach ball is the Mac cinsulting those files to find the memory address to what you 'clicked.' In a way not-well-understood-by-me memory locations have addresses, so the file address cache gives the memory address plus file size and checksum. If you have lots of files (apps are files) the system has lots of data to go through. Consider what happens to that address cache when you change just one byte in some file. There are quite a few orher details involved, too.
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Apr 24, 2017 11:27:02 #
onepictureatatime wrote:
I am still fairly new on a Mac Pro laptop. I get a rotating "beachball" once in awhile and I am not sure why. I was wondering if anyone could explain what I was doing wrong, so I could stop doing it.
Thank you for any and all help.
Tim Kuelker
Thank you for any and all help.
Tim Kuelker
I like to do a re-start (re-boot) every so often. That will clean out your memory and speed things up. Re-starts are quick on the Mac.
Apr 26, 2017 00:21:11 #
I believe you can increase the RAM from 8 gigs to 16 gigs, for example. It is not difficult. But I have not bothered.
Anyway, reboot. Don't clutter your desktop, Close aps you are not using.
My beachball problem on my MBP has greatly decreased since I stopped using Firefox and switched to Safari. Much, much faster and smoother.
Anyway, reboot. Don't clutter your desktop, Close aps you are not using.
My beachball problem on my MBP has greatly decreased since I stopped using Firefox and switched to Safari. Much, much faster and smoother.
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