50 minutes of the whirling beachball of doom, till I could stand it no more, on a brand new machine. Then force quit wouldn’t work either, so resorted to force restart. Thought I must let it run. So here goes again.
My Argyll and Bute Glow Mentor blog.
50 minutes of the whirling beachball of doom, till I could stand it no more, on a brand new machine. Then force quit wouldn’t work either, so resorted to force restart. Thought I must let it run. So here goes again.
“The whirling beachball of doom” – I like it! We were preparing a presentation of ski photos in iPhoto for Assembly this week – tried to add in a couple of photos and change the order a little, machine went mad, little beachball whirling away, frozen screens, general refusal to delete the old slide show and go with the new one. It eventually did it, but everytime that little whirly, coloured thing appears my heart sinks.
“The whirling beachball of doom” is a great name for it Marlyn – I dread its appearance as it signals a general slowing down of operations. On Thursday as we finished our Assembly presentation of our Italian visit, iPhoto and the whirling beachball chose that moment to play up, not allowing us to delete 2 previous versions of the slideshow, not playing beyond the first slide of the new version, freezing the screen and then reverting to the originals everytime we restarted the laptop. After 30 minutes it did it eventually and the result was fantastic, but the stress of getting there!
Hi Marlyn, didn’t mean to send two comments, just thought the first had disappeared, then realised you probably had moderation switched on (to avoid all those interesting comments edublogs seems to attract?!)