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You can call it ‘spinning wheel,’ you can call it ‘beach ball,’ you can call it ‘wheel of death’ or any other way you like. The thing is, whatever you name it, the result will be the same – a slower MacBook Pro or Air, iMac or Mac mini. A spinning wait cursor (an official name) can easily drive most of the users mad. Instead of breaking your Apple computer against the wall in rage, try to find out the main cause of the problem without losing your temper and then solve it ASAP.

Press and hold the power button until the Mac forcibly shuts down. To start the Mac up in Safe Mode, restart this Mac with Shift key pressed and held. Mac OS X 10.2/Jaguar gave the cursor a glossy rounded 'gumdrop' look in keeping with other OS X interface elements. In OS X 10.10, the entire pinwheel rotates (previously only the overlaying translucent layer moved). With OS X 10.11 El Capitan the spinning wait-cursor's design was updated. It now has less shadowing and has brighter, more solid.

If the installer needs more storage space to upgrade, you can free up space using tools that come with your Mac. Free up storage space. Download macOS Big Sur. If you’re using macOS Mojave or later, choose Apple menu System Preferences, then click Software Update. If you’re using an earlier macOS, use the App Store instead.
Expand them under Mac OS to be safe. With all of that said, the rule of thumb is: DiskCopy is good to mount small (e.g. Floppy or zip) disk images (often ending with.dsk or.img) that you found stuffed (.sit) or encoded (.hqx) on the internet and it's good also for.

For starters, we’ll remind that spinning wheel stands for an app trying to cope with more operations than it can at a time. It usually happens to different browsers like Safari, Google Chrome, or Mozilla. It is not necessarily the fault of weak/slow Internet connection.

If you’re lucky, you will observe the beachball for a minute or just several seconds. In other situations, it may show up over and over again. Sometimes, it gets endless so that a Mac owner has nothing else to do except for force quitting the hung app or restarting the device. Of course, the entire data is lost this way. That is why a spinning wheel is also dangerous in addition to being matchlessly irritating. In any case, a beach ball on your screen means that the software is closing the processing tasks to free up space and memory for the new commands. When the application becomes fully unresponsive, it hangs, making the user worried or sleepy. It depends on how urgent the tasks are.

Both Apple native utilities and third-party cleaners provide Mac maintenance. Basically, keeping your Mac clean and healthy is the only sure-fire way to get rid of the Spinning Beach Ball of Death (SBBOD). Many Mac owners treat it as the cause of some larger problem. But it is not actually true. The beach ball is a symptom of the “disease,” and you should know the primary cause(s) to fix it properly and on time.

Purchasing a new machine is the measure of last resort. A user may need it once the processor is dead, but it’s not the case with the beach ball.

There are plenty of reasons why Mac slows down, and its owner starts seeing the annoying spinning wheel of death on its screen – e.g., a huge number of startup items, resource-hungry apps running in the background or filled hard drive. Of course, some users can spend some money on new RAM or SSD, but what about people who do not want to start with extra expenses?

In the next section, take a closer look at the possible ways to fix problems associated with the beach ball.

First and Foremost Steps to Get Rid of the Spinning Color Wheel Issue

Are you stuck on Apple logo and spinning wheel? Both Mac OS X and macOS can experience problems associated with the rainbow-colored pinwheel/circle. Below you can find a list of the possible ways to fix problems that could lead to the never-ending turning spinning beach ball on your screen.

Method #1: Uninstall useless apps and extensions

You can do that by simply dragging and dropping them to Trash. Preferably, you also should clear out app-related stuff that may stay on your Mac even after you remove unneeded software. Usually, it lurks in the Library folder and contains the name or the acronym of the app or its developer in the title.

To speed up the process, you can make use of specially designed cleaning apps that will do the job in your place.

Method #2: Free up some disk space

Many ways to free up the disk space on Mac exist. With the help of Activity Monitor, search for the largest and outdated files on your Apple computer. You may also look for the duplicates with the help of the third-party cleaner of your choice. Other types of junk include temporary files, login items, startup items, cache, cookies, downloads, etc.

Method #3: Re-index Spotlight

Spotlight is something that allows searching for the files you store on your Mac. The utility creates and maintains the index. Sometimes, it appears to be corrupted. Thus, take the recommended steps to fix it:

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Select Apple menu and go to System Preferences. There you will find Spotlight.
Pick the Privacy tab.
Drag the target item you wish to index once more to the locations list that Spotlight cannot research. An alternative is to select a plus button and pick the desired folder/disk.
From this list, pick the folder/disk you have added recently. After that, push the minus button to replace it.
Shut down System Preferences. The spotlight will re-index the contents of the folder/disk.

Setting up a third-party cleaner might be an excellent solution for those who do not possess enough skills and experience to erase useless files or choose extra RAM/SSD/HDD. Working with utilities like Terminal may be risky for the newbies, so it is better to decide on the special cleaning tool.

However, if you decide to buy extra RAM, be ready that only advanced users can install it properly. Otherwise, you’d better contact an Apple Store or an authorized service center to have RAM installed.

As far as Safari is the most popular browser among Mac owners being set by default, it would be useful to dedicate a separate block to solving the problem with its spinning wheel. After the upgrade to macOS Sierra or High Sierra, you may notice that the browser is hanging up too often. There is nothing left except for the Force Quit option.

Force Quit is not the best decision as the browser may finally fail. A smarter way out is to follow this step-by-step instruction for Mac users to test Safari’s work and fix the issue.

Start with erasing caches.

Shut down all windows and stop the apps.
Push the Option key and pick Go in the Finder application.
From the drop-down menu, choose Library. Go to Library → Caches →apple.Safari
Right-click the com.apple.Safari and choose Move to Trash.
Shut down the windows. Restart Safari.

Eliminate com.apple.Safari.plist.

Start with the backup with the help of TimeMachine, iCloud, or other available options.
Pick Empty Trash.
Stop all apps.
Push the Option button and select Go in Finder window.
Pick Library form the offered menu.
Move this way: Library → Preferences →apple.Safari.plist
Right-click and choose Move to Trash.
Reboot the computer and restart the target browser. Pick Start Using Safari link.

In case this method proves ineffective, restore com.apple.Safari.plist from Trash. To do so, take the following steps:

Right-click the Trash icon in the Dock. Choose Open.
Right-click the com.apple.Safari.plist and pick Put Back.
Select Replace.
In case your preferred browser rejects loading a page/website or its items are not available, read Apple’s troubleshooting guides for Safari here and here.

We hope, this article will help you resolve your issues, and you will be seeing the rainbow-colored ball on a sunny beach but not on the screen of your Mac!

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A few more letters in response to'Sleep of Death' ahardware-specific OS 9.2 bug?, Moreon the OS 9.x 'Sleep of Death' bug, and 'Sleepof Death' discussion continues.

Sleep of Death update

From Cedric Sullivan

Hi again,

I just wanted to update my situation. I have now experienced thesleep of death in 10.1.5. After a forced restart, I experienced abunch of problems. Programs were quitting unexpectantly - sometimesreported, sometimes not. I developed a really bad problem withwindows when they were dragged (note: I have window buffercompression enabled). Something else to note, window minimizingwasn't smooth at one point. Windows would jump from full sized tominimized in one step (perhaps some took two or three in a fewseconds time) and vice versa for the reverse. My keyboard stoppedworking in some programs as well. In the second example, I gave thewindow a real shaking. It appears to pick up the background windowsand desktop as well as parts of the window itself. The mouse pointeralso got a bit scrambled/noisy-square.

My System Preferences app froze up on starting it up. This was nottoo long after a startup! Anyway, I ran fsck; it founderrors and fixed them. I'd previously used TechTool Pro to rebuildthe directory. It reported some unusual changes, but I'd acceptedthem.

Right now my iBook is running fine.

Cedric

Won't wake up on earlier system

From Joel Anderson

Most of the writing about the 'Sleep O' Death' seems to say OS 9.2or later. I've experienced it on 9.0.4 after reformatting theinternal hard drive of the culprit (iMac DV) for other reasons. Ihaven't had another problem, yet. (two months) Knock on wood.

LJoel

Sleep of Death and Mac OS X

From Jimmy James Champlin

Charles,

I've had it happen with OS X as well. On an iMac (summer 2001) 500and a blue G3/400, versions through 10.1.2 wouldn't wake from sleepwhen Network Time was enabled. 10.1.3 and later don't have theproblem. Interesting to note that Mac OS 9.1 and 9.2.x will workproperly with network time enabled.

I've also had it happen on a 1400 running 8.6 and 9.1 withoutnetwork time enabled.

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From Alvin Chan

I had that before, but now it's good. I never turn off the iMacanymore, and the problem went away when I set it to 20 minutes. Thesystem sleep is disabled (so it is still connected to the Internet),but the video and hard drive are set to 20 minutes before it sleeps.20 min was Apple's default. It's gone now and boots all the time=)

God bless,
Alvin

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