How Can I "Fix" The Spinning Beachball?

billwill · billwill #1 (**permalink**)

04-17-2012, 06:56 PM

I had Onyx when I was running Snow Leopard on my MacBookPro. I upgraded to LION and installed Onyx for that OS. Now, quite often I get the Onyx box telling me to "move it to my Applications folder," plus the Onyx icon. I pull them into the trash and that's it but it's happening practically all the time. How can I delete Onyx from my system? Is there an Uninstall program I should use or can I just drag it from the Apps folder to the Trashcan? Thanks very much for your help.

billwill · billwill #2 (**permalink**)

04-17-2012, 08:10 PM

Lately, the "spinning beachball" pops up for apparently no reason at all (when I'm in my Address Book or have just closed a FireFox window, etc.). It stays active for several minutes. Evidently something needs fixing, but I'm a Mac newbie and don't have a clue.

What can I do to prevent this? Thank you very much for your help.

RavingMac · RavingMac #3 (**permalink**)

04-17-2012, 08:25 PM

Repairing disk permissions is always a good place to start, but what does your disk free space look like?
You should try to keep at least 15% and performance will begin to degrade rapidly as it drops below 10%

billwill · billwill #4 (**permalink**)

04-17-2012, 08:31 PM

I have a 250 GB HD with 210 available.

I had no problems until I downloaded and installed Onyx, and the Onyx install box comes up a lot, telling me to put it in my Applications folder, which I did when I first installed it.

Will it hurt anything to drag the Onyx application to the trashcan and kill it? Then I'll reboot.

Thank you.

gsahli · gsahli #5 (**permalink**)

04-17-2012, 10:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by billwill

I had no problems until I downloaded and installed Onyx, and the Onyx install box comes up a lot, telling me to put it in my Applications folder, which I did when I first installed it.

Any chance you dragged the .dmg of ONYX to the applications folder instead of the application itself? (that's what the error message sounds like)

Do you have a lot of disk images (icons of a hard drive) left mounted on your desktop?
When you're done with an application, do you quit the app and not just close the window?

billwill · billwill #6 (**permalink**)

04-17-2012, 10:25 PM

I don't have a .dmg; all My applications show are two OnyX files: OnyX.app and OnyX2.4.5.

skyrim · skyrim #7 (**permalink**)

04-17-2012, 10:27 PM

May be the Onyx was not installed properly. Try to uninstall it. And check if the machine get back to normal.

billwill · billwill #8 (**permalink**)

04-17-2012, 10:30 PM

Should I drag the files to the Trashcan and then clean it out? I think that's the only way I can delete them.

chscag · chscag #9 (**permalink**)

04-17-2012, 10:34 PM

Post moved to correct forum. OnyX is not an iOS application.....

Download OnyX again and this time use the uninstall application that comes with the program to remove it. Although I don't know why you wish to uninstall it as OnyX is a very useful application for cleaning and speeding up your Mac.

Download LINK

pigoo3 · pigoo3 #10 (**permalink**)

04-17-2012, 10:50 PM

Merged threads...both threads Onyx & Mac slow-down related.

- Nick

billwill #1 (permalink)
Member Since: Feb 15, 2008 Location: Winston-Salem, NC Posts: 365 Mac Specs: 8 GB 13" MacBook Pro, 64GB WiFi/4G iPad, 32GB iPhone 5	04-17-2012, 06:56 PM I had Onyx when I was running Snow Leopard on my MacBookPro. I upgraded to LION and installed Onyx for that OS. Now, quite often I get the Onyx box telling me to "move it to my Applications folder," plus the Onyx icon. I pull them into the trash and that's it but it's happening practically all the time. How can I delete Onyx from my system? Is there an Uninstall program I should use or can I just drag it from the Apps folder to the Trashcan? Thanks very much for your help. "Laughter is an instant vacation" - Milton Berle
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billwill #2 (permalink)
Member Since: Feb 15, 2008 Location: Winston-Salem, NC Posts: 365 Mac Specs: 8 GB 13" MacBook Pro, 64GB WiFi/4G iPad, 32GB iPhone 5	04-17-2012, 08:10 PM Lately, the "spinning beachball" pops up for apparently no reason at all (when I'm in my Address Book or have just closed a FireFox window, etc.). It stays active for several minutes. Evidently something needs fixing, but I'm a Mac newbie and don't have a clue. What can I do to prevent this? Thank you very much for your help. "Laughter is an instant vacation" - Milton Berle
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billwill #4 (permalink)
Member Since: Feb 15, 2008 Location: Winston-Salem, NC Posts: 365 Mac Specs: 8 GB 13" MacBook Pro, 64GB WiFi/4G iPad, 32GB iPhone 5	04-17-2012, 08:31 PM I have a 250 GB HD with 210 available. I had no problems until I downloaded and installed Onyx, and the Onyx install box comes up a lot, telling me to put it in my Applications folder, which I did when I first installed it. Will it hurt anything to drag the Onyx application to the trashcan and kill it? Then I'll reboot. Thank you. "Laughter is an instant vacation" - Milton Berle
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billwill #6 (permalink)
Member Since: Feb 15, 2008 Location: Winston-Salem, NC Posts: 365 Mac Specs: 8 GB 13" MacBook Pro, 64GB WiFi/4G iPad, 32GB iPhone 5	04-17-2012, 10:25 PM I don't have a .dmg; all My applications show are two OnyX files: OnyX.app and OnyX2.4.5. "Laughter is an instant vacation" - Milton Berle
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billwill #8 (permalink)
Member Since: Feb 15, 2008 Location: Winston-Salem, NC Posts: 365 Mac Specs: 8 GB 13" MacBook Pro, 64GB WiFi/4G iPad, 32GB iPhone 5	04-17-2012, 10:30 PM Should I drag the files to the Trashcan and then clean it out? I think that's the only way I can delete them. "Laughter is an instant vacation" - Milton Berle
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skyrim #7 (permalink)
Member Since: Jan 05, 2012 Posts: 12	04-17-2012, 10:27 PM May be the Onyx was not installed properly. Try to uninstall it. And check if the machine get back to normal.
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chscag #9 (permalink)
Member Since: Jan 23, 2008 Location: Fort Worth, Texas Posts: 32,387 Mac Specs: 21.5" iMac 2.5 GHz i5, iPad 3rd Gen., 3 iPods	04-17-2012, 10:34 PM Post moved to correct forum. OnyX is not an iOS application..... Download OnyX again and this time use the uninstall application that comes with the program to remove it. Although I don't know why you wish to uninstall it as OnyX is a very useful application for cleaning and speeding up your Mac. Download LINK Community Guidelines
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pigoo3 #10 (permalink)
Member Since: May 20, 2008 Location: U.S. Posts: 20,674 Mac Specs: 13" MB 2.4ghz, 2gig ram, OS 10.7.4	04-17-2012, 10:50 PM Merged threads...both threads Onyx & Mac slow-down related. - Nick - Computer slow, too many "beachballs", read this: Beachballs - Computer seems slower than it used to? Read this for some speedup tips: Speedup - Almost full hard drive? Some solutions. Out of Space - Apple Battery Info. Battery
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