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Spinning beachball and reinstalling the system
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<blockquote data-quote="gsahli" data-source="post: 1427425" data-attributes="member: 182015"><p>With Lion, you have a hidden recovery partition from which to reinstall OS X. Hold Option key down after startup sound in order to see it as a startup choice.</p><p></p><p>Reinstalling the OS to fix things is a common technique used by people handicapped by being "Windows Experts." You would need to do that if you intentionally removed random OS components. Or, if you've had a power outage that damaged your hard drive. In other words - in Very rare cases.</p><p></p><p>Check how much hard drive free space you have. (Highlight drive - get Info) You need 10-15% of the drive available. OS X uses this extra space as "swap space" - temp space when moving things around in RAM memory. With those applications running, I'd guess OS X wants 25 GB min for this purpose.</p><p></p><p>Repair your hard drive - start in the recovery partition, then use Disk Utility to repair the main partition.</p><p></p><p>Let us know what you find out with these two steps.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gsahli, post: 1427425, member: 182015"] With Lion, you have a hidden recovery partition from which to reinstall OS X. Hold Option key down after startup sound in order to see it as a startup choice. Reinstalling the OS to fix things is a common technique used by people handicapped by being "Windows Experts." You would need to do that if you intentionally removed random OS components. Or, if you've had a power outage that damaged your hard drive. In other words - in Very rare cases. Check how much hard drive free space you have. (Highlight drive - get Info) You need 10-15% of the drive available. OS X uses this extra space as "swap space" - temp space when moving things around in RAM memory. With those applications running, I'd guess OS X wants 25 GB min for this purpose. Repair your hard drive - start in the recovery partition, then use Disk Utility to repair the main partition. Let us know what you find out with these two steps. [/QUOTE]
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