EtreCheck version: 5.4.3 (5052) Report generated: 2019-11-09 08:15:28 Download EtreCheck from https://etrecheck.com Runtime: 1:29 Performance: Excellent Sandbox: Enabled Full drive access: Enabled Problem: Apps are crashing Description: lots of problems with Catalina - freezes & crashes - mostly involving VLC https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250766817?answerId=251456111022#2 51456111022 Major Issues: Anything that appears on this list needs immediate attention. No Time Machine backup - Time Machine backup not found. Minor Issues: These issues do not need immediate attention but they may indicate future problems or opportunities for improvement. Configuration profiles present - This machine has configuration profiles. These are sometimes used by adware and malware. Apps crashing - There have been numerous app crashes. Apps with heavy CPU usage - There have been numerous cases of apps with heavy CPU usage. Heavy I/O usage - Your system is under heavy I/O use. This will reduce your performance. 32-bit Apps - This machine has 32-bits apps will not work on macOS 10.15 “Catalina”. Hardware Information: Mac mini (2018) Mac mini Model: Macmini8,1 1 3.2 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i7 (i7-8700B) CPU: 6-core 32 RAM - Upgradeable BANK 0/ChannelA-DIMM0 - 16 GB DDR4 2667  BANK 2/ChannelB-DIMM0 - 16 GB DDR4 2667  Video Information: Intel UHD Graphics 630 - VRAM: 1536 MB SyncMaster 1280 x 1024 ASUS VE278 1920 x 1080 InFocus 124D 1024 x 768 Drives: disk0 - APPLE SSD AP0256M 251.00 GB (Solid State - TRIM: Yes) Internal PCI-Express 8.0 GT/s x4 NVM Express disk0s1 - EFI [EFI] 315 MB disk0s2 [APFS Container] 250.69 GB disk1 [APFS Virtual drive] 250.69 GB (Shared by 5 volumes) disk1s1 - M************ Data (APFS) [APFS Virtual drive] (Shared - 119.36 GB used) disk1s2 - Preboot (APFS) [APFS Preboot] (Shared) disk1s3 - Recovery (APFS) [Recovery] (Shared) disk1s4 - VM (APFS) [APFS VM] (Shared - 2.15 GB used) disk1s5 - M**********D (APFS) (Shared - 10.80 GB used) disk2 - Seagate BUP Slim SL 2.00 TB External USB 5 Gbit/s USB disk2s1 - R************T (MS-DOS FAT12) 2.00 TB (1.92 TB used) disk4 - ST5000DM 000-1FK178 5.00 TB External USB 5 Gbit/s USB disk4s1 - EFI (MS-DOS FAT32) [EFI] 210 MB disk4s2 - 5V (Journaled HFS+) 5.00 TB (4.93 TB used) disk5 - Seagate Backup+ Desk 5.00 TB External USB 5 Gbit/s USB disk5s1 - EFI (MS-DOS FAT32) [EFI] 210 MB disk5s2 - M********************p (Journaled HFS+) 285.07 GB (96.79 GB used) disk5s3 [APFS Container] 4.72 TB disk6 [APFS Virtual drive] 4.72 TB (Shared by 4 volumes) disk6s1 - A*****3 (APFS) (Shared - 2.15 TB used) disk6s2 - Preboot (APFS) [APFS Preboot] (Shared) disk6s3 - Recovery (APFS) [Recovery] (Shared) disk6s4 - VM (APFS) [APFS VM] (Shared) Mounted Volumes: disk1s1 - M************ Data [APFS Virtual drive] 250.69 GB (Shared - 119.36 GB used - 117.63 GB free) APFS Mount point: /System/Volumes/Data Encrypted disk1s4 - VM [APFS VM] 250.69 GB (Shared - 2.15 GB used - 117.63 GB free) APFS Mount point: /private/var/vm Encrypted disk1s5 - M**********D 250.69 GB (Shared - 10.80 GB used - 117.63 GB free) APFS Mount point: / Encrypted Read-only: Yes disk2s1 - R************T 2.00 TB (1.92 TB used - 76.26 GB free) MS-DOS FAT12 Mount point: /Volumes/R************T disk4s2 - 5V 5.00 TB (4.93 TB used - 74.83 GB free) Journaled HFS+ Mount point: /Volumes/5V Owners enabled: No disk5s2 - M********************p 285.07 GB (96.79 GB used - 188.28 GB free) Journaled HFS+ Mount point: /Volumes/M********************p disk6s1 - A*****3 4.72 TB (Shared - 2.15 TB used - 2.56 TB free) APFS Mount point: /Volumes/A*****3 Owners enabled: No Network: Interface en0: Ethernet Interface en8: iPod Interface en1: Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac Interface en7: Bluetooth PAN Interface bridge0: Thunderbolt Bridge System Software: macOS Catalina 10.15 (19A583) Time since boot: Less than an hour Configuration Profiles: This computer has configuration profiles installed. Notifications: /Applications/Path Finder.app 10 notifications /Library/Application Support/Paragon Software/com.paragon-software.ntfs.notification-agent.app 7 notifications Security: System Status Gatekeeper: Enabled System Integrity Protection: Enabled Antivirus apps: Malwarebytes 32-bit Applications: 3 32-bit apps Kernel Extensions: /Library/Extensions fabio.kext (1.0) ufsd_NTFS.kext (15.4.59 - SDK 10.10) System Launch Agents: [Not Loaded] 16 Apple tasks [Loaded] 181 Apple tasks [Running] 112 Apple tasks System Launch Daemons: [Not Loaded] 33 Apple tasks [Loaded] 183 Apple tasks [Running] 120 Apple tasks Launch Agents: [Loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist (Google, Inc. - installed 2019-11-04) [Loaded] com.google.keystone.xpcservice.plist (Google, Inc. - installed 2019-11-04) [Running] com.malwarebytes.mbam.frontend.agent.plist (Malwarebytes Corporation - installed 2019-02-26) [Loaded] com.microsoft.update.agent.plist (Microsoft Corporation - installed 2019-09-11) [Running] com.paragon-software.ntfs.notification-agent.plist (Paragon Software GmbH - installed 2019-01-25) Launch Daemons: [Loaded] com.cocoatech.pathfinder.SMFHelper7.plist (Dragan Milic - installed 2019-10-14) [Loaded] com.google.keystone.daemon.plist (Google, Inc. - installed 2019-11-04) [Running] com.malwarebytes.mbam.rtprotection.daemon.plist (Malwarebytes Corporation - installed 2019-04-20) [Running] com.malwarebytes.mbam.settings.daemon.plist (Malwarebytes Corporation - installed 2019-02-26) [Loaded] com.microsoft.OneDriveUpdaterDaemon.plist (Microsoft Corporation - installed 2018-12-23) [Loaded] com.microsoft.autoupdate.helper.plist (Microsoft Corporation - installed 2019-09-11) [Loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensingV2.helper.plist (Microsoft Corporation - installed 2018-12-09) [Running] com.paragon-software.installer.plist (Paragon Software GmbH - installed 2019-03-11) [Loaded] com.paragon-software.ntfs.loader.plist (Apple - installed 2019-09-29) [Running] com.paragon-software.ntfsd.plist (Paragon Software GmbH - installed 2019-01-25) User Login Items: DEVONthink.app (DEVONtechnologies, LLC - installed 2019-01-21) (Application - /Applications/DEVONthink.app) Default Folder X.app (St. Clair Software - installed 2019-10-06) (Application - /Applications/Default Folder X.app) Google Chrome.app (Google, Inc. - installed 2019-11-06) (Application - /Applications/Google Chrome.app) Path Finder.app (Dragan Milic - installed 2019-11-05) (Application - /Applications/Path Finder.app) NeoFinder Global QuickFind.app (NORBERT M. DOERNER - installed 2019-11-04) (Application - ~/Applications/NeoFinder 7.5dev.app/Contents/Resources/NeoFinder Global QuickFind.app) User Internet Plug-ins: Aspera Web 3.9.1.171801: 3.9.1 (Aspera, Inc. - installed 2019-04-11) 3rd Party Preference Panes: NTFS (installed 2019-01-25) Time Machine: Time Machine Not Configured! Performance: System Load: 3.01 (1 min ago) 3.07 (5 min ago) 1.50 (15 min ago) Nominal I/O speed: 12.32 MB/s File system: 18.72 seconds Write speed: 907 MB/s Read speed: 3013 MB/s CPU Usage Snapshot: Type Overall System 3 % User 8 % Idle 89 % Top Processes Snapshot by CPU: Process (count) CPU (Source - Location) Other processes 62.31 % (?) Path Finder 40.87 % (Dragan Milic) EtreCheck 15.57 % (App Store) Google Chrome Helper (GPU).app 5.85 % (Google, Inc.) Google Chrome 2.41 % (Google, Inc.) Top Processes Snapshot by Memory: Process (count) RAM usage (Source - Location) Path Finder 1.14 GB (Dragan Milic) DEVONthink 998 MB (DEVONtechnologies, LLC) EtreCheck 616 MB (App Store) Google Chrome 576 MB (Google, Inc.) Google Chrome Helper (GPU).app 111 MB (Google, Inc.) Top Processes Snapshot by Network Use: Process (count) Input / Output (Source - Location) Other processes 145 KB / 104 KB (?) OneDrive 8 KB / 2 KB (App Store) DEVONthink 523 B / 497 B (DEVONtechnologies, LLC) mdworker_shared 0 B / 0 B (Apple) spindump_agent 0 B / 0 B (Apple) Virtual Memory Information: Physical RAM: 32 GB Free RAM: 18.06 GB Used RAM: 10.86 GB Cached files: 3.07 GB Available RAM: 21.14 GB Swap Used: 0 B Software Installs (past 30 days): Install Date Name (Version) 2019-10-15 Microsoft PowerPoint (16.30.19101301) 2019-10-15 Microsoft Word (16.30.19101301) 2019-10-15 Microsoft Outlook (16.30.19101301) 2019-10-15 Microsoft OneNote (16.30.19101301) 2019-10-15 Microsoft Excel (16.30.19101301) 2019-10-29 EtreCheck (5.4.3) 2019-10-30 XProtectPlistConfigData (2107) 2019-11-01 WhatsApp (0.3.5149) Diagnostics Information (past 7 days): 2019-11-09 08:12:56 Path Finder.app High CPU Use Executable: /Applications/Path Finder.app 2019-11-08 17:50:44 EtreCheck.app Crash Executable: /Applications/EtreCheck.app Details: abort() called 2019-11-08 09:39:13 WhatsApp.app Crash Executable: /Applications/WhatsApp.app 2019-11-08 08:54:09 media-indexer High CPU Use Executable: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/AssistantServices.framework/Versions/A/XPCServices/media-indexer.xpc/Contents/MacOS/media-indexer 2019-11-06 16:57:50 signpost_reporter High CPU Use Executable: /usr/libexec/signpost_reporter 2019-11-05 12:20:56 Microsoft Word.app High CPU Use Executable: /Applications/Microsoft Word.app 2019-11-04 13:39:38 Xilisoft Video Converter Ultimate x86_64.app Crash Executable: /Applications/Xilisoft Video Converter Ultimate x86_64.app 2019-11-03 22:28:49 WindowServer High CPU Use Executable: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/SkyLight.framework/Versions/A/Resources/WindowServer 2019-11-03 14:24:12 Microsoft Error Reporting.app Crash Executable: /Applications/Microsoft Excel.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Microsoft Error Reporting.app Details: *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentExcept ion', reason: '*** -[NSURL URLByAppendingPathComponent:isDirectory:]: component, components, or pathExtension cannot be nil.' abort() called terminating with uncaught exception of type NSException 2019-11-03 11:37:36 DEVONthink.app High CPU Use Executable: /Applications/DEVONthink.app End of report