Carl:
The spinning-beach ball is not the Mac equivalent of the Windows BSOD, that would be the Kernel-Panic. Usually waiting will take care of the beach ball, as it indicates that the machine is processing. If the beach ball continues longer than you think is reasonable, find the current app in the dock, click and hold on it. Look at the popup menu that will appear, if the app has crashed you will see "Application Not Responding" at top. Down from there you will see the option "Force Quit"; click there to shut the app down. Doing this will also generate a crash report and send it to Apple. Now you can continue as-you-were, no reboot needed.
The temporary beach ball is often a symptom of not enough RAM, more is always better. I have 16GB installed on my Mac mini.
Hope this helps you,
--ryan
Sent from my Apple iPad
Sent from my Apple iPad
Well it is not ALL roses though. I get the spinning beach ball from
time to time. While it looks better than the blue screen of death, the
result is the same - the machine has to be turned off and then back
on.
Thanks,
Carl W. Brooks
Check out my iPad/iOS/Mac technology website
http://www.iamthereforeipad.com
On Jan 25, 2013, at 5:42 PM, Jerry Elkins jreusa@gmail.com> wrote:
> Don't need a virus program on a Mac. Relax. Another reason to own one. You will never see the blue screen of death either. LOL
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