It was refurbished by Apple about 2 months ago because I kept getting the spinning beachball.

I go to Onyx and run just the permission repair and its OK for another few hours, then the beachball pops up again.

I never have more than one or at the most two apps running at the same time.

What do you recommend I run on Onyx Im a newbie to this and dont want to destroy any of my data but this beachball is driving me nuts.

If there is a standard regimen that you Onyx experts run, I will very much appreciate you walking me through what I need to do.

Onyx has an Automation button for a purpose.to make things easy This Automation button has a bunch of preselected tasks that it will run.and hopefully you havent messed around with these settings.

If all youre doing is using Onyx to repair permissions.then there really is no point to using Onyx.since you can do a Permissions Repair with Apples Disk Utility program.

So my advice is.launch Onyx, choose the Automation button, click Execute, and let Onyx do its thing.

Your hard drive is too full.

Your hard drive may be failing.

Something is installed on your hard drive that is causing a problem.

You need to check Activity Monitor to see if a program or programs is running.that is sucking up too much system resources (cpu ).

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