Dear Philip Thanks for your speedy response. I didn't know what it's called. It must 'beach ball.' I don't use iDisk nor iPhone. Pardon my ignorance; what's 'plist', please? Cheers, Takamitsu On 15/04/2013 20:08, "spaelti" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hello Takamitsu > > by "sunflower" do you mean "beach ball"? The beach ball is the standard mac > indication that a process is not completing. > > I can sympathize. Nisus does this for me too these days. The problem in my > case has to do with the list of past opened files. In my case this list > contains files on other servers. In my case this used to include files on my > iDisk, and more recently it includes files on my iPhone. The iDisk is a now a > defunct apple technology, so the only way I was able to get rid of this was to > trash the list of previous files. The simplest way to to do that is to erase > the Nisus plist file in preferences. If you don't want to lose all your > preferences you can try to edit the file using the plist editor to remove only > the preferences that cause the problem. (Try removing the whole file first, > but keep a copy. Then edit and replace, etc.) > > Since currently my list includes files on my iPhone, I actually have to unlock > my iPhone to get Nisus to start working! This is kind of like a return to the > *good old* dongle days for those with long enough memories! My iPhone now > functions like a dongle. Unless I turn it on I can't work with Nisus!! I > really hope that Nisusoft release an update that gets rid of this problem > soon. > > Of course there are many possible problems that might cause the appearance of > a beach ball. I hope you can identify the reason in your case. > > best > Philip > > > On 16. Apr 2013, at 2:18 , t muraoka <[log in to unmask]> 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 > > Philip Spaelti > [log in to unmask]