Trash Icon causing spinning beachballs

Okay, so I already made another thread about my spinning beachball problem in OS X, and no matter what, I fix EVERYTHING with my system and spend hours tweaking everything, but there's only one conclusion I can come to. My dock is borked.

See screenshot: http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/959/picture2fu9.jpg

Here's how it goes: I log in, and my trash dock icon looks like that. When I put something in the trash, the trash icon appears as normal. When I empty my trash, I get a normal empty trash icon. But, I get a few beachballs during the process where the active app freezes, I can still move my mouse over the dock and watch the icons magnify. But: when I right click the active app to force quit it, the dock hangs and then the entire system hangs for a good 15-20 seconds, before it registers the right click. Activity monitor doesn't show any hangs, I went through each process (in All Processes, not just My Processes) one by one and viewed its info and "recent hangs" data. Every process after several beachballs still appeared to be not hanging.

Anyone have any ideas on how to get my dock associating initially with the correct icon? I've got my fingers crossed on you guys being able to pull me through this. Anything anyone can throw in would be helpful at this point, because I'm at my wits end with the system hanging every minute or two.

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I attempted to use CandyBar to change my Trash icon, which probably started this whole thing. Gaah, I'm not even going to bother customizing my computer after all this trouble, default is pretty enough as is, haha.

#462336

Try downloading and installing liteicon

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/icon...s/liteicon.html

Then set it to restore your trash... it might work!

#462361

@bh2

i'm curious...do u know if that works as same as candybar app? it's free while candybar is $12.95

#462363

It works just fine as long as you don't have any icon set applied with shapeshifter.

#462366

Thanks

#462369

Thanks bh2, I actually didn't know about LiteIcon!

Man. I swear, I'm never installing trial software again, it has a tendency to mess stuff up right quick.

Fixed the dock icon problem up in a jiffy. Now, unfortuantely, I'm still getting the beachballs. I'm thinking it's about time I backed up all my music to my pc and stored everything I need to keep on my 30 GB iPod.

Le sigh. I was hoping it wouldn't come to this. But thanks so much for letting me know about LiteIcon!

#462436

offtopic, but virsulte, where did u get that delicious wall?

#462438

virstulte... sorry you're still having probs... it must be very frustrating for you. I reckon you'll have to insert your mac disks and then run some sort of disk checker.

#462470

offtopic, but virsulte, where did u get that delicious wall?

petercui.deviantart.com

I think he actually posted them here on A-S, they're his Experiment wallpapers, I +fav'd them quickly on dA, haha.

@bh2: Thanks for the kind words, I'll see what I can do, I've got some time to kill tomorrow, so I might archive stuff to my iPod and start from scratch. My laptop is under a month old (yay for being a new mac switcher) so wiping it clean shouldn't be too hard.

#462493

Wow. Never heard of that.

Does the trash can in mac and the recycle bin in windows follow under the same principle? E.G. Local Disk > RECYCLER. What would be the equivalent in tiger?

#462565