How do you stop the spinning render rainbow cursor on a Mac?

[Richard Harrington]

press the caps lock key to disable preview… change modes… depress again

Richard M. Harrington, PMP

Author: Photoshop for Video, Understanding Adobe Photoshop, and ATS:iWork

[Darby Edelen]

[Ian Dillon] “How do you stop the spinning render rainbow cursor on a Mac? Sometimes I just want to switch back to draft mode from Best and that little spinning rainbow cursor just won’t go away!”

When do you get the spinning beach ball? Because that should not be happening during a preview or a render unless you are seriously low on resources. Do you have other applications open as well? Is your startup disk low on storage space?

Darby Edelen
Lead Designer
Left Coast Digital
Santa Cruz, CA