Dear Ben, I should have added that the beach-ball starts turning not only when I want to work with a file; I get it even when I open NW preferences to change a setting. It comes up, thus, as long as Iım working with NW. Cheers, Takamitsu On 15/04/2013 20:09, "B=C Andrus" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Takamitsu, > > That sounds like the dread rainbow-colored spinning pizza or beach-ball, which > is the indicator that the computer is doing something that takes more than a > moment. But of course the real question is what causing it? > > Does it happen on every file you try to work on? Only on large or complex > files? Does it happen for merely opening the file, or when you begin to edit, > or when it perhaps automatically saves the file in the background? With a new > file you create and start to type with? > > What is your history with Nisus? Have you been able to work with it fine in > the past, and have existing files, or are you trying to start using it now? > > Do you have a slow computer? (model and specs would help in that arena). > > It would be expected that only certain tasks would cause this to happen, and > the tasks that trigger it would be a clue to the cause and possible solutions. > > Not much help, but maybe questions to smoke out the problem? > > Ben, in Montana > __________________________________________________ > On 2013 Apr 15 Mon, at 11:18 am, t muraoka wrote: > >> Hello everybody, >> >> I wonder if any of you could help me. >> >> When I start working on a NW file, a multi-coloured sunflower-like thing >> appears and starts revolving, which seems to last for ages. So long as itıs >> turning round, I canıt work on the file. Does anyone know what this is and >> how can I stop this or get rid of this sunflower? >> Itıs a real nuisance. >> >> Cheers, >> Takamitsu >> > >