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... is this likely to be a malfunctioning widget and/or preference file, and how do I fix it?
On my MBP, running 10.6.6, when I launch Dashboard, I'm getting intermittent freezing and beachballing once Dashboard has been launched (but not before), on each booting. Rebooting it fixes the problem until Dashboard is launched on the next booting. I've tried force quitting but I can't see which item is causing the freeze, and Activity Monitor seemingly hasn't helped either. Any ideas? TiA
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I had intermittent blue balls in my teens. Not quite the same though.
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Remove all of the apps and then add them back until you find the one causing the problems.
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I think she means... deactivate them with the Plus sign. Not literally remove them from the drive.
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Until you figure out which Widget is doing it, you can quit Dashboard by quitting the Dock.
You can use the Activity Monitor for that or do as I do and save an AppleScript applet with this little bit of code:
tell application "Dock" to quit
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I get frequent SBB when I have lots of tabs open in Safari. Very annoying. (I do have Flash blocked).
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I notice I get slower responses to Safari (strangely) when I have a lot of files on the desktop.
I take a lot of screenshots and save comic strips each day, so I get from 50-100 each day -- let that go a
few days, and it gets crowded, and things slow down. Put them all in a single folder with the date,
and beachballs disappear and shutdown is virtually instantaneous.
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PeterB wrote:
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Remove all of the apps and then add them back until you find the one causing the problems.
Gah. There's got to be something more targeted than that.
Sure. Remove half the apps, and see if the problem persists. If so, then remove half of the remaining apps, etc., until the problem disappears. Once the problem has disappeared, add back half the deactivated apps, until the problem reappears. Then go back to the initial protocol.
Sheesh, don't any of you remember troubleshooting extension conflicts pre-OS X? (
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Thanks for that information Jimmypoo. I too have a screenful of Screen Shots and other Kafuffle on my desktop.
