MachiFive2 and the dreaded floating "Beachball"...AARRGHHH!!

[jacey714]

I'm using MachiFive2 with DP7.12 on a 13 inch 2.53Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro with 7200rpm drive and 4GB of RAM...and when I'm trying to listen to samples before loading them into a keygroup I see the dreaded floating "Beach ball"...It's very annoying cuz it happens quite frequently. It definitely kills the workflow...I thought a computer this speed should be plenty fast enough to handle something so simple...Is anybody out there having similar problem?

[Shooshie]

Do you have your hard drive setting (system prefs / energy saver) set to "spin down hard drives whenever possible?" If so, uncheck that. Your hard drives will run constantly, but you won't have to wait as much.

Shooshie

[jacey714]

Do you have your hard drive setting (system prefs / energy saver) set to "spin down hard drives whenever possible?" If so, uncheck that. Your hard drives will run constantly, but you won't have to wait as much.

Shooshie

I had the "Put the hard disk(s) to sleep when possible" unchecked in system prefs/energy saver the whole time...

[MIDI Life Crisis]

I'm guessing it's the HD as well. M5v2 with 7.12 on my old G5 is pretty flawless. Might be some disk fragmentation or other access problem.