Went on this video thinking it was another video that would lead me nowhere. I was having issues with AE and getting it to work and not crash on my mac pro. Followed the instructions and it worked like a charm. Very surprised. Hope this helps anyone else who was also having issues with their mac and AE. Thanks Magnum!
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!!! My iMac was getting slower and slower and the beach balls were constant. I followed your advice and now it's all fixed. Yea!
I tried your tips and HOPEFULLY this has solved the problem. My system steps were - Open Launch, Utilities, and then Run First Aid. I have an old system, so I hope this took me to the right place to remove the spinning pinwheel! Thank you!
What’s up Magnum, new to your channel. This is how a Informational video should be done! No crazy loud music, distracting effects, unnecessary camera movement. Your presentation was direct, clear, understandable with some good humor added in. Nice work and Thank you. I don’t think you will ever be bored enough to read this. Not even if your on a desert island and this is the only thing to read. haha but just in case you do surpass that level of boredom, Here’s my story and problem I’m faced with, to pass some time. I was trying to free up space on my moms MacBook that I had given her. I initially set it all up, but my brother got a hold of it. I only know the basics, so right off I shouldn’t have been messing with the permissions and sharing settings. Second reason I had no business messing with it is because it’s a 15inch late 2008 Mac Pro 5, 1 running el captain with a hard drive maxed out; partitioned 5 ways, but one of the maxed out partisans is an OS X driver for an external expansion hdd 1tb seagate, free agent, go flex back up for an old dell desktop formatted to windows because it’s a backup for my parents old dell desktop that was running windows xps. but has a OS X The actual sea gate disk still has 750gb of space left on it, but it’s useless because of the formatting. Even with all that going on, the MacBook was running flawlessly. However, with the Mac and seagate getting old I wanted to get everything on a single time machine for them. I was also messing with password and deleting and adding new users. My first and last step haha was to get all files on one account. I figured it would be “easy” since it’s all on one computer; idk maybe it is easy, but not for me. So basically, I was experimenting with different pathways, but they all seemed slow to me. Like I was doing something wrong. I guess I thought, well..., my brand new iPhone does everything instantly, so why would it be any different for a 12 year old computer with no space on the hdd transferring 700gb of files? Haha When I finally realized there’s no fast way of doing it; I put all the permissions back to how the were originally, or so I thought? I had to have changed at least 50. The next time I log on everything seemed normal, until I got to the desktop and nothing would load but the the infamous spinning beach ball. To get out of it I had to push the power button. It was the same for all the users. I figured the problem might be because I messed up the permissions. I stopped thinking it was a permission issue right after I ran first aid in disk utility because the TH-camr said it would fix anything that’s wrong and I saw hierarchy in details so I thought it was reset already. I searched the web for answers, but everything talks about the status bar or stuck on boot log. I tried all the different fixes and saw your video and thought, this has to be the fix I was looking for. I think this is my last resort before I take it in. Gonna try your fix tonight or tomorrow. Yes I know, I wrote all this and didn’t even try the fix yet. 🤦 I guess I just got to the boredom level i mentioned earlier and wanted to pass the time. Haha joking aside, I really didn’t care if it worked or not, my reason for commenting was to give props for your video and somehow turned into this. Haha
Roarke6: Thanks for the somewhat lengthy, yet interesting comment. I appreciate your compliments on the video and I hope it turns out to be helpful in the end. If not, I'm afraid I'm not a computer guru and can't supply any additional instructions on how to fix the mess you're currently finding yourself in. HOWEVER, I have a friend who is HIGHLY qualified on the MacBook Pro. His name is Rex, and he has some type of certification from Apple. Not sure what it is, but he's helped me out of a fix a few times. He is also a TH-camr who is riding his motorcycle around the country for the past year to raise money for the Diabetes as a tribute to his son who had the disease and died a couple of years ago from it. His TH-cam channel is LONESTAR RIDER. You might want to visit his channel and send him an email with the info you posted here. (copy and paste would be quickest probably). Tell him Magnum sent you and ask if he has any suggestions. I hope he's able to help you get this fixed because having a messed up computer really sucks. I feel your pain. Good luck.
Magnum thank your for you reply, it was very helpful. I think it’s safe to say the length of my comment was unnecessary. Haha. So I appreciate you going easy on me by saying, -somewhat lengthy-. Thank you for sharing the story about your friend Rex along with recommending him. I’m sorry and sad to hear about his son passing. What he’s doing in memory of his son is amazing and inspirational. Thank you again, take care
Magnum, you are a darling. My IMac G5 2005 model was dead with this goddamn spinning wheel, those c...suckers in Silicon Valley laughed when I told them the model (I paid $ 2000.00 for this back then). I started it in safe mode, entered the PW (luckily I had written them down in my blue book), and followed your instructions, by golly it got rid of that rainbow (!!!) wheel. Now I how to figure have to get on the Internet. Thank you so much.
@@shawnyoldschool No. nothing fixed it. My iMac was a Lemon 🍋. Not Apple 🍎. Had to exchange it. I lost over $800 to do this for iMac 24”. Already reformat it too. Because keyboard right side quit. Bought new keyboard. Still didn’t work. I had to do a total reformation and reinstall Sur,,,, whatever it was called. I’m sure this one is a Lemon too. Time will tell.
Hi Magnum, I have the beach ball syndrome, tried your first way to close down and it does not work, so I tried your second and after the “ disc utilities my screen looks different to yours plus I have an application partly across the box, I’m using A MacBook Pro 2017 any ideas please? Thanks Dave in the UK, have now subbed to your channel.
its so annoying whenever i try to open a file in chrome it just spins and it never stops. i can hardly use it without seeing that beach ball Edit: lol I use windows 10 now 👌🏻
Please help. My MacBook starts up and goes to the home page, I have the spinning beach ball but no icons showing. If I push cntrl, command and escape I can't even click on anything as it won't allow me to click
I have a 2007 MacBook Pro that I bought used. I was getting the BBOD when I was attempting the update the date and time, as I was researching what the spinning beach ball was, I figured it was a bad HD and upgrade RAM. I upgraded to a 240GB SSD and 4 GB RAM (2x2GB sticks), I also loaded OS X Snow Leopard. I was going through the setup process with adding my account and information, then the BBOD showed again! I’m scratching my head so I reinstalled the OS and started the process again…same thing happened again. At this point I’m lost, don’t know what to do. I have a brand new SSD & RAM . Do you have any recommendations on what could be the problem?
Check your Activity Monitor.app in your utility folder. Then check to see what's eating up your RAM memory and you can kill it from there. There could be a few other things that maybe causing it, may have to go to the apple store and get them to help You out, If the above suggestion does not help. Good luck to you Wil!
Whoa i had so many errors. I was a little confused because on the computer it also says repair disk. And if repair is unavailable then click verify disk but I just followed your instructions. Its in the process now I hope this is the only thing thats wrong. I have had this for quite some time. Thx
@@MagnumVideos yea it didn't work. My 2nd comment is below. I have over 95GB of storage available. Please respond to the other comments if you have a moment
Ok so it did not work I had to go back and hit repair disk 1st because nothing was fixed all those errors were still there. Even after repairing and restarting I still have a cpl lingering errors....not sure what to do now
Great vid. Thanks. I have installed ccleaner in my old mac and this is starts automatically when booting and causing me circle of death. Trying to getting rid of ccleaner shit but it keeps coming. Now i am having booting issue. Sometimes it boots in 10 sec and sometimes it takes ages. Does this happen to you? Plz advice some solution. I have got 2011 model, High Sierra with SSD and 8 GB ram.
Thanks for responding but the only thing that where your suggesting is a picture of the disk utility it will go any further than that not sure what to do now hate to sound whatever but there is no extensionI wish I could post a photo of what comes up when I tap disk utility
My disk utility doesn't look anything like yours! It just lists the storage and available space! Looks like 2/3 of the disk space is free. Any suggestion?
If I didn't have so much software installed I'd do a clean install of Mojave. I've got 5 external drives hangin' off of this iMac. 25 TB of mainly audio & video. I've been trying to consolidate "active" drives and prioritize them by each app that requires their service at a particular time. I may do a vid if I have dramatic results when sequentially parking them. thx for you tips, that "permissions" trick can work if you have drives that are buggin' but the results are short lived.
i used etrecheck to stop the beachballing and then used the method provided above to solve my problem....and my problem got solved.....also it can be a problem of your hard drive wire getting old....replace it with a new one...i hope it solves..........if this all doesn't stop then you can install a antivirus like kaspersky.......after that also if it doesn't help....copy your hard drive data....and format and install a fresh copy of mac.....if this also doesn't help....it's time throw this in a Trash can
Hi I tried what you suggested it came back after I verified and said I need to put my start up disc can’t locate it what’s the next suggestion I may have to get it repaired
I’m on OSHigh Sierra yet my Disk Utility looks quite different with no option I can see for clicking Disk Verify. My spinning ball is getting real bad and almost totally preventing me using Logic Pro. Have turned off Wifi on my Mac plus also only have Logic as my the only open app. Frustrating!
Have you checked your available disk space? Click on the Apple logo on the top left of your menu. Click on storage and see how much is available. You may have to delete or transfer some files in order to free up disk space. Let me know what that reveals.
@@Woogadahoomph Well, obviously that's not an issue. When was the last time you restarted? And do you have a lot of programs open? I would close anything that's not being used and then restart and see if that refreshes everything.
About the most useful thing to do is try rebooting first. Stale caches on disk can cause issues. That's more useful than any of the content of this video
Worked man!... but I am having troubles with my Mac shutting down after signing in my password... I was able to sneak in the guess user only have access to safari so I Thought I would try something… Which is working… But then it asked me for my keychain, and I forgot my keychain, clicking on that? Mark doesn’t give me a hint so I am SOL… Just wondering how I could fix the first problem, I get my Mac running again.
You should have stated the version of Mac OS X you are making your suggestions from. My system did not match your instructions at all. I'm on 10.14.3 Mohave
Paul Murray I use the same system and when I go where I was told all that opens up is tshe Macintosh HS it will not go any further so not sure how to stop the beach ball from bouncing all the time.
Strange. I have bought a new MAC but after 2 months I am encountering some problems. I get a message: Overallocation detected on main device. I have deleted and restarted the hardrive. Then.....when I start up my extremely expensive MAC PRO, the spinning ball starts and occasionally the page freezes. Do you know whats going on?
Nice ideas. I am presently in BBH (Beach Ball Hades) where my Mac Mini is taking forever to load up and the BBoD keeps spinning. Trying to quit all the processes and ensure the reopening windows on restart is not checked. Any other suggestions? Thank you.
Check your hard drive available space (About this Mac from the Apple at the top left) then click on Storage and see how much space you have available. I just went through this with YEET and recommended an external drive to transfer some files to for storage to free up hard drive space. Also, have you done the VERIFY DISK PERMISSIONS process? That may prove to be the solution. If you go into Disk Utility, you can see which processes are using a lot of CPU resources. Hope that's helpful. Let me know if you get it fixed and how you did it.
Magnum thank you very much. I suspect the disk permission probably will do the trick once it actually opens that app - it is that slow. I have a 1 TB HDD which probably not even 10% full as the main disk so that isn’t the issue. Suspect that there are some stale processes still running as I left it on accidentally and went into and out of sleep mode. Even restarting didn’t help because the save app option was checked so that doesn’t allow apps/processes to end when shutoff. A nasty mess right now because it takes 10-15 minutes for the mini to respond to any input.
Have you tried a complete SHUT DOWN rather than a RESTART? Sometimes that closes everything and lets you start from scratch on start up. Wish I could be of more help. I hope that option works out for you. I hate it when computers don't work right. If you can't get the issue resolved, I would drop by an Apple Store if you have one nearby and ask them to do a diagnostic on it. I don't know what they charge for that but it might be a last option to get it up and running again. Good luck. @@brucesmith9144
My mac wanted to move about 60K files onto the desktop. It did and the beach all stopped spinning. But everything else is frozen totally. I can't get any folders.
Magnum I really wanted to delete them. But somehow they wanted to go on desktop instead of the paper basket. Yes it restarts but freeze on this. I even tried to reinstall but my extra hard drive is not working. I haven't used it for a long time and I'm even surprised it starts up at all (had it been a PC it wouldn't have). I know most of the keyboard upstart to even make it start, and it does, but it freeze totally because it can't handle all these moving files. Not even a beach ball. Just totally frozen, no way in. I wanna bet it can get working again, but the processor and hard disk heats up because it's old and only 2 GB memory. If you have any advice to how I can save my files I'd appreciate it. If you dot I still appreciate :)
Are you able to create a new folder and drag those files into it or is the whole desktop frozen? If you have another external hard drive, I would try to plug it in and drag them there. I'm not understanding what's "frozen" in your system. Perhaps an expert can chime in with more advice. @@akehapkap6143
Magnum, We'll, I'll be.... I've had Macs for ten to fifteen years, and I have NEVER noticed the TAB button before. Yes, it's there right where you said it would be, but it's news to me. It can't be of much importance; if it were, I would surely be aware of it. There would have been times when I would have needed it. However, I'm now going to see what I can learn about that key. Wait! sure I'm aware of tab buttons on typewriters going back to the Royals and Underwoods of my youth, so DUH, this TAB key must serve the same function. That shows you how much creative writing I've done since I bought my first computer decades ago. Thanks for bringing this to my attention.I wonder how many other things there are just under my nose waiting to be "discovered.'
If you're getting the beach ball on a regular basis on your Mac it's probably because your hard drive is fucked. Hardly anyone mentions this but it is the case for so many Macs, The drives on Mac laptops and desktop machines built around 2013 to 2016 absolutely suck. You can expect about three to four years then the hard drives slowly go bad. The beach balling becoming progressively more frequent as does stalling and system corruption. If after you try everything and the beach balling still won't go away... pretty much your hard drive is fucked. Apple are such assholes they likely won't install a new one or will charge equivalent money as new.
@@MagnumVideos I just don't get why people are so dumb when it comes to this stuff. Apple is not a technology company. They are a lifestyle company. They have convinced the world that you will have a higher social status if you own a MacBook. I own 2 iPads. Both given to me by family members who were suckered into buying the new one. I hate those fucking things. They sit on my coffee table unused.
@@Roarke6 contact a helper she helped me fix it, I rebooted my Mac but kept my files and apps that's what I did but I forgot how I did it. I hope this helps
this vid is posted on 2017 but why do you have such an older version of mac os? I'm not hating, just asking because you should get the new mac os and it's really fast!
I've used the Mac OSX BOOKS , Safe Mode, etc... THIS VIDEO is EXACTLY what I needed! My Mac was up and running fast again after following these steps. Thank You, Magnum!!!!!!! Mac Mohave 10.14.5
I got Mac book pro and I am deleting photos and here comes the spinning ball. Thank you very much. I force quit. And there the spinning ball is gone. ❤️👏
This did not help me my program is Mojave 10.14. and when I open utilities I only have the Macintosh HD there are no other options, what do I do stop the spinning beach ball?
Went on this video thinking it was another video that would lead me nowhere. I was having issues with AE and getting it to work and not crash on my mac pro. Followed the instructions and it worked like a charm. Very surprised. Hope this helps anyone else who was also having issues with their mac and AE.
Thanks Magnum!
Thanks for the comment. Happy it helped.
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!!! My iMac was getting slower and slower and the beach balls were constant. I followed your advice and now it's all fixed. Yea!
Thanks for your comment, Judy. I'm happy it was helpful for you. I hate that spinning beach ball.
Thank You for providing "people friendly" instructions .Simple to the point !! Great Job done ...All the Best . From India
I tried your tips and HOPEFULLY this has solved the problem. My system steps were - Open Launch, Utilities, and then Run First Aid. I have an old system, so I hope this took me to the right place to remove the spinning pinwheel! Thank you!
What’s up Magnum, new to your channel. This is how a Informational video should be done! No crazy loud music, distracting effects, unnecessary camera movement. Your presentation was direct, clear, understandable with some good humor added in. Nice work and Thank you.
I don’t think you will ever be bored enough to read this. Not even if your on a desert island and this is the only thing to read. haha but just in case you do surpass that level of boredom, Here’s my story and problem I’m faced with, to pass some time.
I was trying to free up space on my moms MacBook that I had given her. I initially set it all up, but my brother got a hold of it. I only know the basics, so right off I shouldn’t have been messing with the permissions and sharing settings. Second reason I had no business messing with it is because it’s a 15inch late 2008 Mac Pro 5, 1 running el captain with a hard drive maxed out; partitioned 5 ways, but one of the maxed out partisans is an OS X driver for an external expansion hdd 1tb seagate, free agent, go flex back up for an old dell desktop formatted to windows because it’s a backup for my parents old dell desktop that was running windows xps. but has a OS X The actual sea gate disk still has 750gb of space left on it, but it’s useless because of the formatting. Even with all that going on, the MacBook was running flawlessly. However, with the Mac and seagate getting old I wanted to get everything on a single time machine for them. I was also messing with password and deleting and adding new users. My first and last step haha was to get all files on one account. I figured it would be “easy” since it’s all on one computer; idk maybe it is easy, but not for me. So basically, I was experimenting with different pathways, but they all seemed slow to me. Like I was doing something wrong. I guess I thought, well..., my brand new iPhone does everything instantly, so why would it be any different for a 12 year old computer with no space on the hdd transferring 700gb of files? Haha When I finally realized there’s no fast way of doing it; I put all the permissions back to how the were originally, or so I thought? I had to have changed at least 50. The next time I log on everything seemed normal, until I got to the desktop and nothing would load but the the infamous spinning beach ball. To get out of it I had to push the power button. It was the same for all the users. I figured the problem might be because I messed up the permissions. I stopped thinking it was a permission issue right after I ran first aid in disk utility because the TH-camr said it would fix anything that’s wrong and I saw hierarchy in details so I thought it was reset already. I searched the web for answers, but everything talks about the status bar or stuck on boot log. I tried all the different fixes and saw your video and thought, this has to be the fix I was looking for. I think this is my last resort before I take it in. Gonna try your fix tonight or tomorrow. Yes I know, I wrote all this and didn’t even try the fix yet. 🤦 I guess I just got to the boredom level i mentioned earlier and wanted to pass the time. Haha joking aside, I really didn’t care if it worked or not, my reason for commenting was to give props for your video and somehow turned into this. Haha
Roarke6: Thanks for the somewhat lengthy, yet interesting comment. I appreciate your compliments on the video and I hope it turns out to be helpful in the end. If not, I'm afraid I'm not a computer guru and can't supply any additional instructions on how to fix the mess you're currently finding yourself in. HOWEVER, I have a friend who is HIGHLY qualified on the MacBook Pro. His name is Rex, and he has some type of certification from Apple. Not sure what it is, but he's helped me out of a fix a few times. He is also a TH-camr who is riding his motorcycle around the country for the past year to raise money for the Diabetes as a tribute to his son who had the disease and died a couple of years ago from it. His TH-cam channel is LONESTAR RIDER. You might want to visit his channel and send him an email with the info you posted here. (copy and paste would be quickest probably). Tell him Magnum sent you and ask if he has any suggestions. I hope he's able to help you get this fixed because having a messed up computer really sucks. I feel your pain. Good luck.
Magnum thank your for you reply, it was very helpful. I think it’s safe to say the length of my comment was unnecessary. Haha. So I appreciate you going easy on me by saying, -somewhat lengthy-. Thank you for sharing the story about your friend Rex along with recommending him. I’m sorry and sad to hear about his son passing. What he’s doing in memory of his son is amazing and inspirational. Thank you again, take care
I had this spinning wheel issue and because of your video i fixed it and it works now ! Thank you so much Magnum !
Magnum, you are a darling. My IMac G5 2005 model was dead with this goddamn spinning wheel, those c...suckers in Silicon Valley laughed when I told them the model (I paid $ 2000.00 for this back then). I started it in safe mode, entered the PW (luckily I had written them down in my blue book), and followed your instructions, by golly it got rid of that rainbow (!!!) wheel. Now I how to figure have to get on the Internet. Thank you so much.
That's the kind of story I love to hear. So glad it worked for you.
Exactly what I needed, thank you!
You're welcome Sam. Thanks for the comment!
WOW!! Thanks, I used the command/tab/clear and that worked!! I've been sitting here for an hour looking at that damn ball...LOL.
Glad it worked for you. Thanks for the comment!
This did NOT work for me. I even formatted! Wiped out clean. 3 days later, beachball is back on my empty iMac i5 fusion 2019
Same!!! MacBook Air 2017 here. Please let me know if you found a fix
@@shawnyoldschool No. nothing fixed it. My iMac was a Lemon 🍋. Not Apple 🍎. Had to exchange it. I lost over $800 to do this for iMac 24”. Already reformat it too. Because keyboard right side quit. Bought new keyboard. Still didn’t work. I had to do a total reformation and reinstall Sur,,,, whatever it was called. I’m sure this one is a Lemon too. Time will tell.
Thank you! Force Quit worked for me
Awesome! Glad it was helpful. Feel free to share.
Thanks. I’m using Catalina so searched for how to fix disk permissions on that system. Hopefully that solves my issue.
Hi Magnum, I have the beach ball syndrome, tried your first way to close down and it does not work, so I tried your second and after the “ disc utilities my screen looks different to yours plus I have an application partly across the box, I’m using A MacBook Pro 2017 any ideas please?
Thanks Dave in the UK, have now subbed to your channel.
its so annoying whenever i try to open a file in chrome it just spins and it never stops. i can hardly use it without seeing that beach ball
Edit: lol I use windows 10 now 👌🏻
Same
Thank you! Today anytime I clicked anything, the beach ball would consistently show up for about five minutes at a time. It was terribly annoying haha
THANK YOU I know I’m late but still thank you so much!! You saved my life!
I'm glad it helped. Thanks for the nice comment.
That spinning wheel gives me grey hairs
Followed first method great. But 2nd method only get part way because I dont have any tabs to pick in my disk utilities, only information
Please help. My MacBook starts up and goes to the home page, I have the spinning beach ball but no icons showing. If I push cntrl, command and escape I can't even click on anything as it won't allow me to click
oh boy I think Im gonna like this channel!
I have a 2007 MacBook Pro that I bought used. I was getting the BBOD when I was attempting the update the date and time, as I was researching what the spinning beach ball was, I figured it was a bad HD and upgrade RAM. I upgraded to a 240GB SSD and 4 GB RAM (2x2GB sticks), I also loaded OS X Snow Leopard. I was going through the setup process with adding my account and information, then the BBOD showed again! I’m scratching my head so I reinstalled the OS and started the process again…same thing happened again. At this point I’m lost, don’t know what to do. I have a brand new SSD & RAM . Do you have any recommendations on what could be the problem?
Hello in my case Macbook Pro 2012 mid was the internal Sata cable, ill replace it and Spinning wheel of death gone.
Great Video Magnum! The best advice you gave was to restart and/or quit Apps.
Thanks, Rex. I was hoping I didn't give any bad advice. I figured you would be an expert on this.
Would upgrading to El Capitain help resolve that issue?
Rex? Any ideas on this question? Is it possible to do re-install of El Capitain or maybe upgrade to Sierra and see if that fixes the issue?
Check your Activity Monitor.app in your utility folder. Then check to see what's eating up your RAM memory and you can kill it from there. There could be a few other things that maybe causing it, may have to go to the apple store and get them to help You out, If the above suggestion does not help. Good luck to you Wil!
Same to you, my friend. My dandelion photo card came today. Beautiful! I love that shot. Thank you so much for thinking of me.
Whoa i had so many errors. I was a little confused because on the computer it also says repair disk. And if repair is unavailable then click verify disk but I just followed your instructions. Its in the process now I hope this is the only thing thats wrong. I have had this for quite some time. Thx
I hope it helps. A lot of times a virus can cause something like that or if your hard drive storage is very low.
@@MagnumVideos yea it didn't work. My 2nd comment is below. I have over 95GB of storage available. Please respond to the other comments if you have a moment
What if you have a PC keyboard connected to your iMac? What are the keys to use to see what is running in the background? Thx
Thank you. Mine does not give me the disc permission option. I have an IMac.
Ok so it did not work I had to go back and hit repair disk 1st because nothing was fixed all those errors were still there. Even after repairing and restarting I still have a cpl lingering errors....not sure what to do now
my sister freeze her mac 4 times and i try fix it it dont work and the wall paper turns gray and the dock disasper and i cant click and buttons
Great vid. Thanks. I have installed ccleaner in my old mac and this is starts automatically when booting and causing me circle of death. Trying to getting rid of ccleaner shit but it keeps coming. Now i am having booting issue. Sometimes it boots in 10 sec and sometimes it takes ages. Does this happen to you? Plz advice some solution. I have got 2011 model, High Sierra with SSD and 8 GB ram.
Excellent video, thank you sir this helped me out lots
Thanks for responding but the only thing that where your suggesting is a picture of the disk utility it will go any further than that not sure what to do now hate to sound whatever but there is no extensionI wish I could post a photo of what comes up when I tap disk utility
I am totally useless with computers but this worked for me. Thanks very much
I'm happy it was helpful. Thanks for the comment.
My disk utility doesn't look anything like yours! It just lists the storage and available space! Looks like 2/3 of the disk space is free. Any suggestion?
If I didn't have so much software installed I'd do a clean install of Mojave. I've got 5 external drives hangin' off of this iMac. 25 TB of mainly audio & video. I've been trying to consolidate "active" drives and prioritize them by each app that requires their service at a particular time. I may do a vid if I have dramatic results when sequentially parking them. thx for you tips, that "permissions" trick can work if you have drives that are buggin' but the results are short lived.
i used etrecheck to stop the beachballing and then used the method provided above to solve my problem....and my problem got solved.....also it can be a problem of your hard drive wire getting old....replace it with a new one...i hope it solves..........if this all doesn't stop then you can install a antivirus like kaspersky.......after that also if it doesn't help....copy your hard drive data....and format and install a fresh copy of mac.....if this also doesn't help....it's time throw this in a Trash can
thanks for the help
Hi I tried what you suggested it came back after I verified and said I need to put my start up disc can’t locate it what’s the next suggestion I may have to get it repaired
I’m on OSHigh Sierra yet my Disk Utility looks quite different with no option I can see for clicking Disk Verify. My spinning ball is getting real bad and almost totally preventing me using Logic Pro. Have turned off Wifi on my Mac plus also only have Logic as my the only open app. Frustrating!
Have you checked your available disk space? Click on the Apple logo on the top left of your menu. Click on storage and see how much is available. You may have to delete or transfer some files in order to free up disk space. Let me know what that reveals.
Yes only 340GB used of 1TB
@@Woogadahoomph Well, obviously that's not an issue. When was the last time you restarted? And do you have a lot of programs open? I would close anything that's not being used and then restart and see if that refreshes everything.
Thanks for your help. It worked instantly!......Wow.
Thanks for the comment. Feel free to share it with others.
About the most useful thing to do is try rebooting first. Stale caches on disk can cause issues. That's more useful than any of the content of this video
Helpful. Thank you.
Dude this worked!
Worked man!... but I am having troubles with my Mac shutting down after signing in my password... I was able to sneak in the guess user only have access to safari so I Thought I would try something… Which is working… But then it asked me for my keychain, and I forgot my keychain, clicking on that? Mark doesn’t give me a hint so I am SOL… Just wondering how I could fix the first problem, I get my Mac running again.
You should have stated the version of Mac OS X you are making your suggestions from. My system did not match your instructions at all. I'm on 10.14.3 Mohave
Sorry, Paul. I think I'm using Sierra. Which parts didn't work for you?
Paul Murray I use the same system and when I go where I was told all that opens up is tshe Macintosh HS it will not go any further so not sure how to stop the beach ball from bouncing all the time.
I can't even begin to follow you because: WHAT'S THE APPLICATION FOLDER??? I DON'T HAVE THAT IN ANY CORNER???
THANK U THIS HELPED SM
Thank you for reaching out!! On a Mac... I reached out to Apple support and they took care of it.
I call it the rainbow circle of death.
It worked. Thank you. The verify disk did not light up. So I restarted and voila! Also stay focused is a good word for the day.
Thanks for watching and for the comment. Glad it helped.
Thanks you.
Strange. I have bought a new MAC but after 2 months I am encountering some problems. I get a message: Overallocation detected on main device. I have deleted and restarted the hardrive. Then.....when I start up my extremely expensive MAC PRO, the spinning ball starts and occasionally the page freezes. Do you know whats going on?
Do you have a lot of applications open at the same time?
I can’t tho nothing is clicking and I’m already in an app
Good Morning my Mac book pro is confused . There are conflicting amounts of storage!
The computer thinks it is full but it is not full!!
I have no clue to advise you on that. Do you have a hammer?
Nice ideas. I am presently in BBH (Beach Ball Hades) where my Mac Mini is taking forever to load up and the BBoD keeps spinning. Trying to quit all the processes and ensure the reopening windows on restart is not checked. Any other suggestions? Thank you.
Check your hard drive available space (About this Mac from the Apple at the top left) then click on Storage and see how much space you have available. I just went through this with YEET and recommended an external drive to transfer some files to for storage to free up hard drive space. Also, have you done the VERIFY DISK PERMISSIONS process? That may prove to be the solution. If you go into Disk Utility, you can see which processes are using a lot of CPU resources. Hope that's helpful. Let me know if you get it fixed and how you did it.
One more thing: You might also try clearing cookies and see if that solves it.
Magnum thank you very much. I suspect the disk permission probably will do the trick once it actually opens that app - it is that slow. I have a 1 TB HDD which probably not even 10% full as the main disk so that isn’t the issue. Suspect that there are some stale processes still running as I left it on accidentally and went into and out of sleep mode. Even restarting didn’t help because the save app option was checked so that doesn’t allow apps/processes to end when shutoff. A nasty mess right now because it takes 10-15 minutes for the mini to respond to any input.
Have you tried a complete SHUT DOWN rather than a RESTART? Sometimes that closes everything and lets you start from scratch on start up. Wish I could be of more help. I hope that option works out for you. I hate it when computers don't work right. If you can't get the issue resolved, I would drop by an Apple Store if you have one nearby and ask them to do a diagnostic on it. I don't know what they charge for that but it might be a last option to get it up and running again. Good luck. @@brucesmith9144
No more 🌴⛱️🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🔵🟣
Is first aid the same as repair disk permissions?
I don't think so, but perhaps someone more knowledgeable can chime in with an answer.
It won't let me
Have you tried turning it on and off again
My mac wanted to move about 60K files onto the desktop.
It did and the beach all stopped spinning. But everything else is frozen totally. I can't get any folders.
Did you want to move those files to the desktop? Have you tried to restart?
Magnum I really wanted to delete them. But somehow they wanted to go on desktop instead of the paper basket.
Yes it restarts but freeze on this. I even tried to reinstall but my extra hard drive is not working.
I haven't used it for a long time and I'm even surprised it starts up at all (had it been a PC it wouldn't have).
I know most of the keyboard upstart to even make it start, and it does, but it freeze totally because it can't handle all these moving files.
Not even a beach ball. Just totally frozen, no way in.
I wanna bet it can get working again, but the processor and hard disk heats up because it's old and only 2 GB memory.
If you have any advice to how I can save my files I'd appreciate it. If you dot I still appreciate :)
Are you able to create a new folder and drag those files into it or is the whole desktop frozen? If you have another external hard drive, I would try to plug it in and drag them there. I'm not understanding what's "frozen" in your system. Perhaps an expert can chime in with more advice. @@akehapkap6143
What do you mean, "hit the tab"? What is "the tab"?
The TAB key. It's usually on the left side above the caps lock.
Magnum,
We'll, I'll be.... I've had Macs for ten to fifteen years, and I have NEVER noticed the TAB button before. Yes, it's there right where you said it would be, but it's news to me. It can't be of much importance; if it were, I would surely be aware of it. There would have been times when I would have needed it. However, I'm now going to see what I can learn about that key. Wait! sure I'm aware of tab buttons on typewriters going back to the Royals and Underwoods of my youth, so DUH, this TAB key must serve the same function. That shows you how much creative writing I've done since I bought my first computer decades ago. Thanks for bringing this to my attention.I wonder how many other things there are just under my nose waiting to be "discovered.'
LOL. I keep learning new things myself. Glad you found it.
Is this guy actually using his pointer to fix a pinwheel problem? The point is we can’t do that!
very hansum
If you're getting the beach ball on a regular basis on your Mac it's probably because your hard drive is fucked. Hardly anyone mentions this but it is the case for so many Macs, The drives on Mac laptops and desktop machines built around 2013 to 2016 absolutely suck. You can expect about three to four years then the hard drives slowly go bad. The beach balling becoming progressively more frequent as does stalling and system corruption.
If after you try everything and the beach balling still won't go away... pretty much your hard drive is fucked. Apple are such assholes they likely won't install a new one or will charge equivalent money as new.
Wonderful
Thanks for the comment!
I can’t do anything
but i can't click anything at all
Didn’t work for me
beach ball of death
Didn't work
my beach ball keeps going cuz i have MACKBOOK AIR!!!!!!!
What a pain did you get it fixed ? I'm stuck😭
If I force quit powerpoint will I lose my work?
I would save it first.
He obviously can’t
PowerPoint automatically saves every 2 mins IF u didnt turned this off
That do not work
I can’t do jack shit as the bastard beach ball won’t stop effing spinning!!! 😡
happened to me few secs ago QAQ)
Man U are the best
I'm happy it was helpful.
Finally I can get rid of this stupid spinning ball of pride.
Why this was recommended is beyond me. But I can tell you how to fix this: DONT BUY AN APPLE PRODUCT!
LOL.
@@MagnumVideos
I just don't get why people are so dumb when it comes to this stuff. Apple is not a technology company. They are a lifestyle company. They have convinced the world that you will have a higher social status if you own a MacBook. I own 2 iPads. Both given to me by family members who were suckered into buying the new one. I hate those fucking things. They sit on my coffee table unused.
@@NunYa953 I own a mac but I'm still team android
Nun Ya they are a technology company.
Mine's a Bitch Ball
I HATE THE BEACHBALL! IM TRYING TI CETCH UP ON MY BRITAINS GOT TALENT AND ITS THERE!,!,!,!,,L6)/.JCHWDFACLAKJWD
Yea well the thing is I’m turn on my power, put in my password and that beach ball comes up
ResetZ that’s my exact problem
@@Roarke6 contact a helper she helped me fix it, I rebooted my Mac but kept my files and apps that's what I did but I forgot how I did it. I hope this helps
ResetZ Thank you, much appreciated. Glad you got yours fixed.
Roarke6 no problem
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BUT I CANT CLICK ANYTHING
Livii Logan me too
Livii Logan hahahahaha
Livii Logan neither me my sister gonna kill me
Exactly this clickbait
lol my dad is going to kill me now.... can't move th click freaking thing
It’s only like that onto one tab and it won’t let me do anything
THANK YOU SO MUCH I THOUGHT MY SISTER WOULD KILL ME SHE IS AT WORK RIGHT NOW AND ONCE I HELD COMMAND AND CLICKED TAB IT WORKED THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!
You're welcome. I'm glad it was helpful.
this vid is posted on 2017 but why do you have such an older version of mac os?
I'm not hating, just asking because you should get the new mac os and it's really fast!
I've used the Mac OSX BOOKS , Safe Mode, etc... THIS VIDEO is EXACTLY what I needed! My Mac was up and running fast again after following these steps. Thank You, Magnum!!!!!!!
Mac Mohave 10.14.5
Thanks so much for the comment. I'm happy it was helpful.
Thank you So much this literally fixed it 😊
Thanks, Spinning beach ball stopped. I have slightly different tools on my Mac, but I could translate what you said and the problem has gone away.
Glad it was helpful.
what if I can't click anything? please help
Sweet Upon my problem right now :-/
Happened to me
Damm same 🙃
click this: ctrl+cmd+r+p+power. it will restart your Mac and work
@@gustavogutierrez6969 click this: ctrl+cmd+r+p+power. it will restart your Mac and work
I got Mac book pro and I am deleting photos and here comes the spinning ball. Thank you very much. I force quit. And there the spinning ball is gone. ❤️👏
Thank you so much!!!!!!!!
Thank goodness... I thought I was the only one who thought it looked like a beach ball.
LOL!
lol! if you want a beach ball go to the beach! I subscribed, good tips here.
It’s taking me bout an hour for each step 🤦🏽♂️
This did not help me my program is Mojave 10.14. and when I open utilities I only have the Macintosh HD there are no other options, what do I do stop the spinning beach ball?
Go to your apps folder. Open Utilities, then open Disk Utilities.
what if u don't have the cmmdds key xd
Great if you can share instructions on how to stop an erractic cursor dancing on MacBook Pro.!
Thank you
This didnt help at all. Not going to watch your videos again