Spinning wheel ball of DEATH is really choking use of GS

GarageSale
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The “Spinning wheel ball of DEATH” is really choking my use of GS 9.9.5b1. Is there something I can do to speed up use of GS? Every click is a 2 second hesitation and then every 10 to 20 listing scrolls becomes a 30 second wheel spin that makes me wait to do anything. Any ideas?

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I created AppleScript when this sometimes shows up in the Finder.

It moves a couple preference files associated with the Finder to the trash.

I then manually erase the files from the trash.

I then force quit the Finder.

This forces the Finder to rebuild the files.

Replace “DriveName” with whatever the hard drive is called on your computer.

Replace “UserName” with the name of the current user.

try
	
	FileExists("DriveName:Users:UserName:Library:Preferences:com.apple.XPC.activity2.plist")
	
	FileExists("DriveName:Users:UserName:Library:Preferences:com.apple.Finder.plist")
	
end try

on FileExists(theFile)
	tell application "System Events"
		if exists file theFile then
			tell application "Finder" to delete theFile
			return true
		else
			return false
		end if
	end tell
end FileExists
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@rlmartin Does this happen in all views or only in a specific view?
Does it still happen if the internet connection is disabled? (Just for test purposes.)

Can you please follow the instructions to gather a little diagnostic data so I can see where GarageSale spends its time?

  1. Launch GarageSale if you don’t have it already running
  2. Open the “Activity Monitor” application (under /Application/Utilities)
  3. Select GarageSale from the list of running applications in Activity Monitor
  4. Chose “View” menu > “Run Spindump” (Activity Monitor will probably ask you for an admin password at this point)
  5. Try to reproduce the beachball.
  6. Wait one minute, return to Activity Monitor, save the spin dump log, and send it to us.
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Frustrates me as well. If only there were messages being displayed to see what it is doing and with an option to stop it b

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I went back to 9.9.2. GS doesn’t hesitate or give me the spinning ball. It will be later until I can get to the spindump.

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I will have to keep this in mind for the future. It seems that closing GS and opening 9.9.2 and then coming back and opening 9.9.5b1 has resolved the spinning ball. I just have the lag issue with a short ball spin. Screen shot movie shows the lag time. I click ahead as soon as the last listing loads. This is in Preview mode but also performs the same in Live mode.

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This might have something to do with your item description or images. Do you experience these lags when in Editor Mode, too?

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Yes, The lag is in both live and editor modes.UPDATE** the movie was taken in smart groups in editor mode.** Here is a spin dump but I got no spin while it was recording. AS A BONUS, the annoying checking the browser notice that forces me to refresh token occurred while doing the spindump. I don’t think it would show there, right?

Spindump.txt (5.6 MB)

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I caught 1 or 2 spins that lasted 2-3 seconds

Spindump3.txt (5.7 MB)

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Caught 3 here in editor

Spindump4.txt (5.4 MB)

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Thanks for submitting the spin dump files.

From the Spindump 3 and 4, it looks like GarageSale was unresponsive for about half second while it was busy resizing images for the auction preview.

With version 9.9.3 GarageSale changed to a different API for resizing images, which can better deal with HDR images. It might be that that the image resizing API is not particularly fast on your version of macOS or on your Mac.

On the other hand, the hangs in the spindump were only about half second, to it might be something else that’s causing the beach ball. Also, you said we also getting the beach ball in editor mode, were no image resizing should take place.

Could you try if you get the beach ball while you just leave GarageSale untouched in Editor mode. It could be that some smart groups, which require periodic update, are causing the beach ball, and they image resizing is misleading.

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As I mentioned the spins cut way down after I restarted GS after switching versions and then going back to the 9.9.5b1.

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I’m sorry, it was not editor but it is the Preview mode. A different twist to it. I opened 9.9.2. In Preview every listing I open hung and gave a few seconds of ball spin but if I went back to one already opened just a click before it opens right up with no spin. I guess that confirms the resizing. This is another reason I am getting closer to that “Buy a new iMac” time since most of the stuff I report comes back to the old OS I am running

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I would highly recommend OpenCore Legacy Patcher before buying a new Mac. It has breathed new life into many of my older Macs, as they are now able to run newer OSes and at no performance cost.

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From the way I read the openCore info it looks to me that a mid 2015 iMac can be upgraded to 13. That is not much from the current 12.7.6 I currently run. Am I missing something?

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That’s a full version newer than what you run. That is a major difference, IMO. You’re running macOS 12, and you can run up to macOS 15. The mid 2015 iMac can run macOS 13+ in other words, macOS 13, 14, and 15. But even the jump to 13 would be big. I am at macOS 14 because macOS 15 breaks several old apps for me.

There are several notes in the documentation to be aware of - the Time Machine one being the big one, IMO. It is well documented though.

My warehouse Mac mini is stuck on macOS 12 as well, and this coming February I’ll be patching it so I can put macOS 14 on it. But I have used this for other Macs, not that long ago on my 2015 11” MacBook Air and it works well. I do not have GS installed on that Mac though.

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