Spinining wheel

[Tina]

I have a Mac book running snow leopard after I upgraded from Leopard, got it  late 2008. Lately I am getting the spinning beach wheel a lot. Noticeably more since the upgrade to SL

I've rebooted, repaired permissions and ran maintenance scripts in terminal. I'm not short of space, but could probably do with more RAM if I could afford it. Anyone know what else I can do to stop the wheel? Thanks

[Steve]

I found this http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3901 which relates to hard drive stalls. All I can suggest is to work your way through the multitude of "spinning beach balls" as they are called on the Apple support forum and the forum at macrumors. I have an early 2009 macbook 13.3 which has a clean install of SL and works very well apart from the occasional Safari flash plug in glitch. I have 4Gb of ram but only really use more than 2Gb when running a guest OS simultaneously.

[Tina]

I *think* I've solved it. It would appear that apple didn't include the latest flash player in SL. I've now  done that. I so wish I'd been brave enough to do a clean install instead of an upgrade. but as it was my first upgrade I stuck at that

[Steve]