Re: Fed up with everything being busy busy busy

2012-12-03 Thread Phil Halton
t;Steve Holmes" To: Sent: Monday, December 03, 2012 8:45 AM Subject: Re: Fed up with everything being busy busy busy I am not experiencing these busy busy busy problems. Once in a while, a particular program will hang and go busy but in most of those cases, it is stuck doing somethi

Re: Fed up with everything being busy busy busy

2012-12-03 Thread Steve Holmes
I am not experiencing these busy busy busy problems. Once in a while, a particular program will hang and go busy but in most of those cases, it is stuck doing something like trying to get new mail or like yesterday when I accidentally told the bookmarks menu to open all 47 bookmarks in separate

Re: Fed up with everything being busy busy busy

2012-12-03 Thread Oriol Gómez
Here's the thing, VoiceOver is kind of strange in that sense. I don't understand why vo can't work with programs just like other screen readers do, I mean we have 4 processor cores or 2 or even more for something. You alt tab on the mac and it's still busy busy busy busy because a program is doing

Re: Fed up with everything being busy busy busy

2012-12-02 Thread Chris Bruinenberg
You can check the hard drive space under about this mac under the menubar. I don't have the sidebar issues. I'm sorry. Maybe a clean install should help. On Dec 2, 2012, at 4:00 PM, Brian Fischler wrote: > Ok doesn't seem to be anything running that shouldn't been trying to > find out how full m

Re: Fed up with everything being busy busy busy

2012-12-02 Thread Brian Fischler
Ok doesn't seem to be anything running that shouldn't been trying to find out how full my hard drive is and can't believe I can't find this. Where is it listed? also does anyone else have this problem. When in the finder sidebar, I try to arrow down through the side bar, and every time I get to air

Re: Fed up with everything being busy busy busy

2012-12-02 Thread Brian Fischler
Just wanted to say thanks so much for all of the great suggestions. As soon as I am done yelling at my fantasy football team for not doing anything, I am going to start looking into all of this. Thanks again. On Dec 2, 2:02 pm, Brian Fischler wrote: > Would love to hear if anyone has a solution t

Re: Fed up with everything being busy busy busy

2012-12-02 Thread Anne Robertson
Another suggestion is to check how many windows are open in the various applications that are running. On the Mac, closing all windows does not close an application, so make sure that you quit applications that are not in use. After that, there's the good old Repair Permissions, and from time to

Re: Fed up with everything being busy busy busy

2012-12-02 Thread Maxwell Ivey
hello; have you checked the free space on your hard drive? sometimes that can cause this. take care, max On Dec 2, 2012, at 1:02 PM, Brian Fischler wrote: > Would love to hear if anyone has a solution to this. In the past week > every program I run is constantly busy busy busy almost making my m

Re: Fed up with everything being busy busy busy

2012-12-02 Thread Chris Bruinenberg
Hi Brian, It's under utilities. Sent from my iPhone On Dec 2, 2012, at 11:28 AM, Brian Fischler wrote: > Gotcha, and not to sound like an idiot, but where do you find the > activity list on a mac? Thanks > > On Dec 2, 2:02 pm, Brian Fischler wrote: >> Would love to hear if anyone has a solut

Re: Fed up with everything being busy busy busy

2012-12-02 Thread Brandon Olivares
You can find Activity Monitor in the Utilities folder. In the Finder, press command+shift+U. Regards, Brandon Olivares Azavia Technologies ZCaptcha — The Captcha Reader On Dec 2, 2012, at 2:28 PM, Brian Fischler wrote: > Gotcha, and not to sound like an idiot, but where do you find the > activ

Re: Fed up with everything being busy busy busy

2012-12-02 Thread Brian Fischler
Gotcha, and not to sound like an idiot, but where do you find the activity list on a mac? Thanks On Dec 2, 2:02 pm, Brian Fischler wrote: > Would love to hear if anyone has a solution to this. In the past week > every program I run is constantly busy busy busy almost making my mac > unusable. I a

Re: Fed up with everything being busy busy busy

2012-12-02 Thread Brandon Olivares
My general rule is that if I don't know what it is, I don't touch it. If it really concerns me, I'll Google it to see what the process is for. But usually I just shut down the ones that are tied to actual open applications. Regards, Brandon Olivares Azavia Technologies ZCaptcha — The Captcha Rea

Re: Fed up with everything being busy busy busy

2012-12-02 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey Brandon, no I have not checked the activity monitor. How do I do that, and is there any activity you shouldn't shutdown. I remember when I was on a PC I would have to check the processes but there weren't certain ones you weren't supposed to shut down. Thanks On Dec 2, 2:02 pm, Brian Fischler

Re: Fed up with everything being busy busy busy

2012-12-02 Thread Brandon Olivares
Have you tried checking Activity Monitor to see if any processes are hogging the emory or CPU? Sometimes when this starts happening for me, I shut down a few of the programs that seem to be taking the most memory. Regards, Brandon Olivares Azavia Technologies ZCaptcha — The Captcha Reader On De

Fed up with everything being busy busy busy

2012-12-02 Thread Brian Fischler
Would love to hear if anyone has a solution to this. In the past week every program I run is constantly busy busy busy almost making my mac unusable. I am using an Imac 2010 running the latest mountain lion operating system. It used to be that I just dealt with busy in safari. Now Itunes, mail, new