Beachball Popping Up More Frequently?


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Anyone else that's running Snow Leopard noticing an increase in the beachball/pinwheel of death/etc? I have a MBP from last year with 4GB RAM, 2.53Ghz C2D, and it seems to be happening a lot more often lately. Mostly while using Safari. I boot to x64 as well, just an fyi. Just curious as to if this is just isolated to my system or others are experiencing similar activity. Thanks :).

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I don't use any plug-ins, it seems to happen randomly, sometimes when a page is loading, other times just out of the blue when clicking to another window/tab.

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My Macbook (early 2009 aluminum unibody) with Snow leopard gets the Beachball every time i open Firefox.

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I don't use any plug-ins, it seems to happen randomly, sometimes when a page is loading, other times just out of the blue when clicking to another window/tab.

No plug-ins at all?

Flash causes Safari to SBBOD quite often.... And any other browser for that matter.

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Ok, an update! I opened up the Console and minimized while I worked this morning. Twice it happened where the beach-ball started going for about 15 seconds (as usual). I looked in the console and at exactly those two times, I have this: 12/16/09 11:35:14 AM com.apple.backupd-auto[1761] Not starting scheduled Time Machine backup - time machine destination not resolvable.

I don't leave my external connected at all times, in fact I only really connect when it says backups haven't been completed in "x" number of days. This never seemed to be an issue (at least that I noticed). Is there anyway to change the schedule or disable auto-backups? I mean, I suppose I could turn it off until I wanted to backup but is there a more efficient solution? Thanks! :)

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