Think of your Mac like your own brain. The more you're worrying about, thinking about, and working on solving – the slower you'll be to respond (and the more annoyed you'll be) when someone asks you to do something else RIGHT NOW. 😉
Also called the 'spinning beach ball of death,' the spinning beach ball in macOS Mojave is simply an indicator that your Mac is no longer capable of handling the tasks given to it at the moment. Pro Tip: Scan your Mac for performance issues, junk files, harmful apps, and security threats that can cause system issues or slow performance. (Lucas's MacLifeHacks #1, redone in 2019 here: all the awesome free time you will experience after you watch this vi. Word Freezes on Mac - Spinning Beach Ball I'm on a MacBook Pro, Yosemite 10.10.5, with Office 15.32. When I open Word, as soon as I click anywhere or on any menu item, I get the spinning beach ball, and I have to force-quit the program.
Below are five options to make the beach ball go away. (Update Nov 21st 2018: New Macinhome YouTube video 'why is my Mac so slow?! The top 12 reasons and fixes!' is live!)
1. Quit some apps.
Decay mac os. There are always problems mac os. Hold command and press tab a few times to see which apps are open, and switch between them. When you land on one you want to quit, keep holding command and press q. If you have an unfinished document, don't worry. It'll warn you and ask you to save before quitting it.
Imagine if we could do that with our worries and stresses. Just hit command-q! Ahhhhh. Relief!
2. Look in Activity Monitor.
Press command-spacebar to open Spotlight and type 'Activity'. Press return to launch Activity Monitor. Look for anything that is using more than 10% of the CPU; that MAY be your culprit. If you know what it is and you don't need it anymore, quit it. If you don't know what it is, call us for help or put on your daredevil mask, hit Google, and get adventurous.
3. Restart.
Pdf plus merge & split pdfs 1 3. Skate & date [ new demo] mac os. This sounds cliché and very obvious but many people run their Mac for days without restarting. I recommend restarting every 2-3 days for most people or daily if you are doing a lot of multi-tasking with big apps. It's like a cat nap for your Mac. There's a lot going on behind the scenes if you use your Mac a lot, and some things don't stop until you restart.
4. Close browser tabs.
If you have Safari and Chrome open with a lot of tabs, that can slow things down a lot. Treize mac os. Close any tabs you aren't using anymore with command-w. Keep your Mac and your apps running lean.
5. Install RAM or an SSD.
If all else fails you can find out what it will take to upgrade your Mac hardware with more memory (RAM) or a much faster SSD hard drive (solid state drive, also known as flash storage). Here's a video example of the speed comparison, with creepy music. Two identical Macs; one with the regular hard drive and one with the SSD installed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8aFwh3dT_E
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If you have Safari and Chrome open with a lot of tabs, that can slow things down a lot. Treize mac os. Close any tabs you aren't using anymore with command-w. Keep your Mac and your apps running lean.
5. Install RAM or an SSD.
If all else fails you can find out what it will take to upgrade your Mac hardware with more memory (RAM) or a much faster SSD hard drive (solid state drive, also known as flash storage). Here's a video example of the speed comparison, with creepy music. Two identical Macs; one with the regular hard drive and one with the SSD installed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8aFwh3dT_E
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My system: G4/400 Sawtooth AGP running 10.3.9.
Last night, the Finder developed a persistent spinning beach ball. The one window which is open shows all partitions of the HD (Maxtor, installed not more than a year ago). I had had a number of windows open earlier in the day, but I did not turn on the machine on this occasion so I don't know whether they 'disappeared' or were closed before the beach ball arrived.
I can start most apps in the Dock using the dock. Keyboard shortcuts and mouse actions inside the app windows are OK. However, any attempt to use the menu bar causes the app to freeze.
I rebooted using TechTool Pro 4 and ran every test. No problems were detected. Rebuilt the directories. No change.
I rebooted from the Install disk and ran Disk Utility. Verfiy disk detected no problems. I ran Repair Permissions several times on the boot partition. Each time it stopped at the same point and threw an error message saying that it had lost the connection to the Disk Management Tool.
I rebooted with Command-S (whatever you call that mode) and ran fsck -fy. No problems were detected.
This morning I opened a Samba session from my Linux box in an attempt to backup my Mac mailboxes and other sundry stuff. I can access everything but one partition of the drive (not the boot partition). I can access the boot partition without problems. So I suspect that this one partition is causing the Finder to hang. (But that does not account for the Repair Permissions problem on the boot partition, described above.)
I'm currently using TechTool to recover the errant partition (and I hope I can dump it onto a Firewire drive I have connected).
In the meantime, if anyone has any insights I'd be most grateful to hear them. Thanks in advance.
