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beach ball

  1. MarckyG

    Selecting multiple files in Catalina breaks the finder

    I have no idea how to reach out to Apple, but their new Catalina OS is making my work very painful... I want to know if others are having this problem too. Same behaviour on my girlfriend's MacBook Air with Catalina, but my 6 years old iMac with Sierra doesn't have this problem. Mac: MacBook...
  2. SolidCake

    MP 1,1-5,1 MP4,1 -> 5,1 has the spins. Need help!

    Hi All, Over the past year, my cMP4,1 -> 5,1 has been getting the spinning beachball more and more. The most notable example of this is when I'm saving files. Where saving (text!)files used to be instant, now it can take up to 5 minutes of beachball to indefinite beachball resulting in me...
  3. a84c72

    Upgrade OS/Restoring Files

    I am on a Macbook mid 2012 running Yosemite 10.10.5. In previous attempts to upgrade to High Sierra (is that the latest?), I've found High Sierra gives me numerous beach balls every time I even try open an app, etc. I reverted back via Time Machine. My next attempt a few months later resulted...
  4. kemo

    Persistent freezes, lags, beach balls on High Sierra 10.13.4

    Hello! I've recently purchased Macbook Pro 15'' 2017 with TouchBar, which came preinstalled with High Sierra, so I kept it on. Transferred all the apps / settings from my previous Macbook Pro. And Ever since I have transferred all my stuff from Sierra to High Sierra, High Sierra seems to be...
  5. OldManJimbo

    Spinning Beach Ball - Help me keep PEACE in my house

    Is there any method of determining what causes a 2016 MacBookAir to very frequently show the beach ball? My wife is extremely impatient with her Air - she constantly complains about the spinning beach ball. She re-starts almost every day. All the apps are latest versions - she really doesn't do...
  6. jonahke

    5K iMac problems since macOS Sierra

    Since the day I installed macOS Sierra on my 5K iMac I got several problems -When I want to shut down my iMac it get stuck on a black screen with the spinning beach ball. -When an app freezes and I force quit it, it won't restart (same with my Finder) -The beach ball appears with the easiest...
  7. C

    iTunes frozen with iTunes Match?

    Hello there, I have this custom setup of iTunes: I downloaded all tracks from iTunes Match, plus have a few others that weren't matched, all residing on the local hard drive. Since this took too much space and I intend to cancel iTunes Match next year anyway (rumors of Apple cutting off...
  8. alexander8317

    What has happened to my Macbook Pro 13'' 2012?

    I was wondering if anyone could help me figure out what the problem is with my mac. So, a little while ago there were several cases of my macbook somehow waking itself from sleep mode (while the lid was CLOSED) and severely overheating, while the fans would be blasting. It would literally be hot...
  9. N

    MacBook Pro beach ball loading icon

    So my problem started two days ago, I had erased my HD and reinstalled the OS X as I was having previous issues with the computer. After doing this I started up, set it all up, and started using it. Was working perfectly fine until about 3 hours later. Everything on the computer then started to...
  10. D

    Running super slow in an office environment

    Hey all, I have about 30 mac minis in the office I work in, but I myself have a 15MBPr (correct abbreviation, not sure, sorry if it isn't.) Anyway so we have about 30 minis, all purchased brand new from Apple over the last 1.5yrs. They're all baseline models with 4GB of RAM still, and a...