Spinning cursor when composing

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Don Powers

I have an irritating problem. Whenever I go to compose a message in
entourage 2004 I get the infamous colored spinning cursor about every 30-45
(although this can vary) seconds. When this happens everything freezes up
until the computer is done "thinking." I've seen this issue come up with
others, but never heard of it being resolved. Any ideas? Again, this
usually only happens when I am composing a message although occasionally the
problem will occur when I am deleting or moving messages.

My system configuration is as follows:

Dual processor G5 (2 GB)
OS 10.3.7 (this problem has existed for several versions of 10.3)
1 GB memory
Office 2004

Cheers,

Don Powers
 
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Diane Ross

I have an irritating problem. Whenever I go to compose a message in
entourage 2004 I get the infamous colored spinning cursor about every 30-45
(although this can vary) seconds. When this happens everything freezes up
until the computer is done "thinking." I've seen this issue come up with
others, but never heard of it being resolved. Any ideas? Again, this
usually only happens when I am composing a message although occasionally the
problem will occur when I am deleting or moving messages.
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When a schedule is running Entourage really slows down. How often is your
schedule set to retrieve mail? Mine is set for every 10 minutes and I have
no problems. If I am running iMovie or Toast in the background, I do see a
slowdown, but when they is processing files they eats CPUs.

Check your Activity Monitor tab %CPU to see if another application is
causing the problem.
 
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Don Powers

I've looked at the CPU usage and that doesn't appear to be a problem. I
might also mention that I am on an exchange server. Even so I seem to be
the only one with this issue.

Cheers,

Don
 
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