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veronephoto
24th of June 2009 (Wed), 20:31
Well, Im on a new macbook and when I try to open up some files.....the damn pinwheel keeps on spinning? I tried doing a search on this but was unsuccessfull.....any recommendations?
Electric Shepherd
25th of June 2009 (Thu), 03:27
Not particularly, no. I use a 2006 2.16GHz 2Gb MacBook to edit my 450D CR2s and don't find a huge lag, occasionally the beachball appears for a few seconds when I navigate to a folder with lots of files in and it has to generate the thumbnails, but it's not a long wait. Just bear in mind that 5DII files are pretty big. When you say "open", what do you mean - opening a folder in the organiser window or opening images in the edit window?
René Damkot
25th of June 2009 (Thu), 03:53
Not sure if it's the same with DPP, but at least for Adobe Applications it's like this: "Watch" icon = Adobe busy, "Spinning Pizza Wheel" = OSX busy.

I get neither when using DPP (OSX 10.4.11, DPP 3.6.1, PPC G5 2x2GHz, 5.5Gb)
Electric Shepherd
25th of June 2009 (Thu), 04:01
You do have a somewhat more powerful machine than a MacBook there though René!
Moppie
25th of June 2009 (Thu), 04:02
Not sure if it's the same with DPP, but at least for Adobe Applications it's like this: "Watch" icon = Adobe busy, "Spinning Pizza Wheel" = OSX busy.



I was talking with a Mac Training expert the other day.
He discribed the spinning ball as the "beach ball of death" because it means OS-X is busy, or the system is working as hard as it possibly can.
So OS-X is about to fail or your doing something that is beyond the normal ablity of the hardware.

The topic only come up because processing RAW files from the 30D on his 18month old Mac Pro caused the little spinning ball to show up a couple of times.

RAW files from a 5D MKII are pushing the limits of what you can process on a dual core laptop.
René Damkot
25th of June 2009 (Thu), 07:50
You do have a somewhat more powerful machine than a MacBook there though René!

I dont think the difference is that big actually. Processor wise, the Macbook is faster then the G5:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=945400

So OS-X is about to fail or your doing something that is beyond the normal ablity of the hardware.

The beachball doesn't necessarily mean "about to crash".
I occasionally get the beachball when I'm working on huge files in PSCS4 (think 2Gb psb files).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinning_wait_cursor