beachball when I try to open a file

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I get a spinning beachball when I try to open files in various applications. For example, I tried opening up a php file that contained an audio stream in VLC (which I have done plenty of times before), and, once I select the file, the open dialog stays on top and I have a spinning beachball. The same is true in TextEdit when I try to open an rtf file. Again, the beachball only occurs once the file is clicked (selected) (but before pressing "open").

Any ideas?
 
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As an update, I restarted the Mac without an attached USB drive that wasn't being detected by the Mac. It seems that things are fixed when I do that.
 
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Glad you got that sorted. And welcome to Mac-forums, rosh1182. It's highly possible that the undetected drive was slowing the system down.

What kind of USB drive would that be?
 

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Yes, what Brand/Size is this USB drive? How is it formatted?
 

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