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<blockquote data-quote="Barbara Jay" data-source="post: 1609738" data-attributes="member: 188741"><p>Since I upgraded to Snow leopard I have had problems with Mail causing the entire computer to freeze up and creating spinning beach balls. I had numerous conversations with Apple support and they were never able to solve the problem. I even uninstalled and reinstalled Snow Leopard .</p><p></p><p>Now things have gotten much worse. Any program not just mail will cause my computer freezes up. It happens at least 2-3 times an hour. Then I have to shut it down with the on/off button because it will not let me force quit. This is not good for my machine</p><p></p><p>This is what I have done to try to solve this problem:</p><p>I cleared cookies and the cache.</p><p>Checked my hard drive in Disk Utilities and it says the HD volume is OK</p><p>I ran "repair disk permissions"</p><p>I checked to see if I had enough space on my hard drive. It says I have 209.55 GB of available space and I have used 39.91 GB</p><p></p><p>I checked the Activity Monitor and it showed Pages in 102.0 MB ( on last check) -----Pages outs 0---- Swaps 0. On numerous checks it always shows Pages out and swaps as 0</p><p></p><p>I switched from Safari to Firefox</p><p></p><p>I make sure no more that 2 applications are open at one time .</p><p> I had some links on my dock and I removed those.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Does any one have any other ideas for me to try? </p><p>This problem is very frustrating . </p><p>Thank you</p><p>Barbara</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Barbara Jay, post: 1609738, member: 188741"] Since I upgraded to Snow leopard I have had problems with Mail causing the entire computer to freeze up and creating spinning beach balls. I had numerous conversations with Apple support and they were never able to solve the problem. I even uninstalled and reinstalled Snow Leopard . Now things have gotten much worse. Any program not just mail will cause my computer freezes up. It happens at least 2-3 times an hour. Then I have to shut it down with the on/off button because it will not let me force quit. This is not good for my machine This is what I have done to try to solve this problem: I cleared cookies and the cache. Checked my hard drive in Disk Utilities and it says the HD volume is OK I ran "repair disk permissions" I checked to see if I had enough space on my hard drive. It says I have 209.55 GB of available space and I have used 39.91 GB I checked the Activity Monitor and it showed Pages in 102.0 MB ( on last check) -----Pages outs 0---- Swaps 0. On numerous checks it always shows Pages out and swaps as 0 I switched from Safari to Firefox I make sure no more that 2 applications are open at one time . I had some links on my dock and I removed those. Does any one have any other ideas for me to try? This problem is very frustrating . Thank you Barbara [/QUOTE]
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