Mac 10.14.3 behaving very oddly - slow, some apps don't work, passes all of Apple's diagnostics

part 4

System Launch Agents:

    [Not Loaded] 16 Apple tasks

    [Loaded] 154 Apple tasks

    [Running] 126 Apple tasks

    [Other] 3 Apple tasks

System Launch Daemons:

    [Not Loaded] 37 Apple tasks

    [Loaded] 181 Apple tasks

    [Running] 117 Apple tasks

    [Other] One Apple task

Launch Agents:

    [Not Loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist (Adobe Systems, Inc. - installed 2019-02-09)

    [Other] com.adobe.ARMDCHelper.cc24aef4a1b90ed56a725c38014c95072f92651fb65e1bf9c8e43c37a23d420d.plist (Adobe Systems, Inc. - installed 2018-03-20)

    [Running] com.adobe.AdobeCreativeCloud.plist (Adobe Systems, Inc. - installed 2019-03-13)

    [Running] com.adobe.GC.AGM.plist (Adobe Systems, Inc. - installed 2018-12-19)

    [Not Loaded] com.adobe.GC.Invoker-1.0.plist (Adobe Systems, Inc. - installed 2018-12-19)

    [Running] com.avast.osx.secureline.update-agent.plist (AVAST Software a.s. - installed 2019-01-31)

    [Loaded] com.avast.osx.secureline.userinit.plist (? 2fc1004f - installed 2019-01-31)

    [Running] com.avast.update-agent.plist (AVAST Software a.s. - installed 2019-03-16)

    [Loaded] com.avast.userinit.plist (? bb25154c - installed 2019-03-16)

    [Other] com.google.keystone.agent.plist (Google, Inc. - installed 2019-03-11)

    [Loaded] com.google.keystone.xpcservice.plist (Google, Inc. - installed 2019-03-11)

Launch Daemons:

    [Loaded] com.adobe.ARMDC.Communicator.plist (Adobe Systems, Inc. - installed 2018-03-20)

    [Loaded] com.adobe.ARMDC.SMJobBlessHelper.plist (Adobe Systems, Inc. - installed 2018-03-20)

    [Running] com.adobe.acc.installer.v2.plist (Adobe Systems, Inc. - installed 2019-03-13)

    [Loaded] com.adobe.agsservice.plist (Adobe Systems, Inc. - installed 2018-12-19)

    [Other] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist (? 2afb3af7 - installed 2016-05-09)

    [Loaded] com.apple.installer.osmessagetracing.plist (Apple - installed 2019-02-04)

    [Loaded] com.avast.init.plist (? fc55b6fa - installed 2019-03-16)

    [Loaded] com.avast.osx.secureline.init.plist (? 1bda83b1 - installed 2019-01-31)

    [Loaded] com.avast.osx.secureline.uninstall.plist (? ba7a0061 - installed 2019-01-31)

    [Loaded] com.avast.osx.secureline.update.plist (? f50a649c - installed 2019-01-31)

    [Loaded] com.avast.uninstall.plist (? 22f94791 - installed 2019-03-16)

    [Loaded] com.avast.update.plist (? 5c6ac355 - installed 2019-03-16)

    [Loaded] com.google.keystone.daemon.plist (Google, Inc. - installed 2019-03-11)

    [Running] com.seagate.TBDecorator.plist (? 595582c - installed 2015-11-02)

    [Loaded] com.teamviewer.Helper.plist (TeamViewer GmbH - installed 2018-04-11)

    [Not Loaded] com.teamviewer.teamviewer_service.plist (TeamViewer GmbH - installed 2018-04-11)

User Launch Agents:

    [Loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist (Adobe Systems, Inc. - installed 2019-02-09)

    [Loaded] com.adobe.GC.Invoker-1.0.plist (Adobe Systems, Inc. - installed 2018-12-19)

    [Loaded] com.avast.home.userinit.plist (? 0 - installed 2019-03-16)

    [Loaded] com.avast.osx.secureline.home.userinit.plist (? 0 - installed 2019-01-31)

    [Not Loaded] com.lastpass.LastPassHelper.plist (? 0 - installed 2018-01-07)

    [Loaded] com.skype.skype.shareagent.plist (Skype Communications S.a.r.l - installed 2017-09-04)

User Login Items:

    6H4HRTU5E3.com.avast.osx.secureline.avastsecurelinehelper (AVAST Software a.s. - installed 2019-01-24)

        (Modern Login Item - /Applications/AvastSecureLine.app/Contents/Library/LoginItems/6H4HRTU5E3.com.avast.osx.secureline.avastsecurelinehelper.app)

    CleanGenius.app (CHENGDU Yiwo Tech Development Co., Ltd - installed 2019-03-17)

        (Application - /Applications/CleanGenius.app)

    PhotoStreamAgent (App Store - installed 2038-01-18)

        (Modern Login Item - /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/Library/LoginItems/PhotoStreamAgent.app)

EtreCheck version: 5.2 (5C006)

Report generated: 2019-03-17 13:58:51

Download EtreCheck from https://etrecheck.com

Runtime: 28:22

Performance: Poor

Problem: Beachballing

Description: 

From my posting at Apple Support : Mac 10.14.3 behaving very oddly - s

low, some apps don't work, passes all of Apple's diagnostics

This is hard to describe, so apologies in advance. I thought I'd post

to see if there were some ideas before taking my Mac Mojave 10.14.3 R

etina 5k, 27", 24GB memory system into the local Apple shop. All

of a sudden the system has changed its behavior from a fairly fast an

d responsive one to a system with erratic response times and behaviors

. For example, some apps are extremely slow to startup (ccleaner) an

d the app icon bounces for a minute before the app fires up (not uniqu

e to ccleaner - other apps are doing this as well). I can't delete a

pplications - for example, with launchpad up, I cannot get the black '

X' to appear to delete any app. The app icon vibrates but there isn't

a 'X'. Nor does the app show up in the Applications folder. While C

Ccleaner finds my critical apps (like Lightroom) it doesn't find many 

other apps to enable me to delete (but the apps show up in Launchpad a

nd are able to be launched). CleanGenius app hangs while looking for 

apps (in the Uninstall option). DriveDX gets 90% through it's short s

elf-test and then hangs (over an hour). However 2 out of 3 of their s

ystem status reports give a 100% thumbs up. One report says drive fai

lure pending. I'm not sure of the trustworthiness of the data they pr

ovide after seeing the discrepancies. Avast (which has been running in

background as I thought the issue might be a virus, is about a third 

the way through a scan (1M files) and I can see the number of files be

ing scanned steadily increasing and the names changing, but the progre

ss bar is pegged at 16% and hasn't changed in 12 hours.

I've run the Apple system health check ( D key on startup), Disk Utili

ty (R key) and all report no issues. I've reinstalled the OS as well 

(all of the above events were done after a new OS install). In the Sy

stem Report (Apple icon upper right, under About) , under Software -&g

t; Applications it says "The plug-in did not respond quickly enou

gh while gathering the information'. After a couple of days of bounci

ng around trying different utilities, I don't feel I've made much prog

ress. My system is 'useable' but something's broken. 

Major Issues: None

Minor Issues:

    These issues do not need immediate attention but they may indicate future problems or opportunities for improvement. 

    Heavy RAM usage - This machine is using a large amount of RAM.

    Out of RAM - This machine is running short on RAM and has a mechanical hard drive, reducing the speed of the virtual memory system.

    Clean up - There are orphan files that could be removed.

    Unsigned files - There are unsigned software files installed. They appear to be legitimate but should be reviewed.

    System modifications - There are a large number of system modifications running in the background.

    32-bit Apps - This machine has 32-bits apps will not work after macOS 10.14 “Mojave”.

    Limited drive access - More information may be available with Full Drive Access.

Hardware Information:

    iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2014 - 2015)

    iMac Model: iMac15,1

    1 3.5 GHz Intel Core i5 (i5-4690) CPU: 4-core

    24 GB RAM - Upgradeable

        BANK 0/DIMM0 - 4 GB DDR3 1600  ok

        BANK 1/DIMM0 - 4 GB DDR3 1600  ok

        BANK 0/DIMM1 - 8 GB DDR3 1600  ok

        BANK 1/DIMM1 - 8 GB DDR3 1600  ok

Video Information:

    AMD Radeon R9 M290X - VRAM: 2048 MB

        iMac 2048 x 1152

Part 6 Final

Clean up:

    /Library/Application Support/Avast/components/account/com.avast.account-sync.plist

        /Library/Application Support/components/account/com.avast.account-sync

        Executable not found

    ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.lastpass.LastPassHelper.plist

        REPLACE_HOME/Library/Application Support/LastPass/LastPassHelper.app/Contents/MacOS/LastPassHelper

        Executable not found

Diagnostics Information (past 7 days):

    2019-03-17 12:58:35 CleanGenius.app Crash

        Executable: /Applications/CleanGenius.app

        Details: 

            abort() called

            CleanGenius(7593,0x70000240c000) malloc: *** error for object 0x600001

            363100: pointer being freed was not allocated

End of report

Part 5

Internet Plug-ins:

    AdobePDFViewerNPAPI: 17.012.20098 (Adobe Systems, Inc. - installed 2019-03-15)

    FlashPlayer-10.6: 21.0.0.242 (? - installed 2016-05-13)

    AdobePDFViewer: 19.010.20098 (Adobe Systems, Inc. - installed 2019-03-15)

    nplastpass: 4.1.7 (? - installed 2018-01-07)

    Flash Player: 21.0.0.242 (? - installed 2016-05-13)

    AdobeAAMDetect: 3.0.0.0 (Adobe Systems, Inc. - installed 2019-03-13)

User Internet Plug-ins:

    CitrixOnlineWebDeploymentPlugin: 1.0.105 (? - installed 2013-04-25)

Audio Plug-ins:

    AppleTimeSyncAudioClock: 1.0 (Apple - installed 2019-02-04)

    BluetoothAudioPlugIn: 6.0.10 (Apple - installed 2019-02-04)

    AirPlay: 2.0 (Apple - installed 2019-02-04)

    AppleAVBAudio: 710.1 (Apple - installed 2019-02-04)

    BridgeAudioSP: 5.2 (Apple - installed 2019-02-04)

    iSightAudio: 7.7.3 (Apple - installed 2019-02-04)

3rd Party Preference Panes:

    Flash Player (installed 2016-05-09)

    MenuMeters (installed 2014-10-22)

    Seagate Dashboard for Mac OSX (installed 2017-05-10)

Time Machine:

    Time Machine information not available without Full Drive Access.

    20 local snapshots

    Oldest local snapshot: 2019-03-16 14:08:07

    Last local snapshot: 2019-03-17 13:09:20

Performance:

    System Load: 1.60 (1 min ago) 2.00 (5 min ago) 2.04 (15 min ago)

    Nominal I/O speed: 0.89 MB/s

    File system: 25.47 seconds

    Write speed:  180 MB/s

    Read speed:  611 MB/s

CPU Usage Snapshot:

    Type Overall

    System 4 %

    User 4 %

    Idle 92 %

Top Processes Snapshot by CPU:

    Process (count) CPU (Source - Location)

    QuickLookSatellite 13.30 % (Apple)

    DriveDx 10.62 % (Kirill Luzanov)

    ACCFinderSync (2) 10.13 % (? - /Applications/Utilities/Adobe Sync/CoreSync/Core Sync.app)

    kernel_task 5.82 % (Apple)

    WindowServer 5.14 % (Apple)

Top Processes Snapshot by Memory:

    Process (count) RAM usage (Source - Location)

    Google Chrome Helper (40) 4.83 GB (Google, Inc.)

    Adobe (7) 666 MB (? - /Applications)

    EtreCheckPro 529 MB (Etresoft, Inc.)

    mdworker_shared (16) 495 MB (Apple)

    Google Chrome 348 MB (Google, Inc.)

Top Processes Snapshot by Network Use:

    Process Input / Output (Source - Location)

    com.avast.proxy 262 MB / 2 MB (AVAST Software a.s.)

    mDNSResponder 7 MB / 657 KB (Apple)

    DriveDx 4 KB / 63 KB (Kirill Luzanov)

    netbiosd 37 KB / 20 KB (Apple)

    apsd 8 KB / 9 KB (Apple)

Top Processes Snapshot by Energy Use:

    Process (count) Energy (0-100) (Source - Location)

    Google Chrome Helper (40) 15 (Google, Inc.)

    WindowServer 3 (Apple)

    Google Chrome 2 (Google, Inc.)

    hidd 0 (Apple)

    Adobe CEF Helper (2) 0 (Adobe Systems, Inc.)

Virtual Memory Information:

    Physical RAM: 24 GB

    Free RAM: 6.69 GB

    Used RAM: 10.18 GB

    Cached files: 7.14 GB

    Available RAM: 13.82 GB

    Swap Used: 25 MB

Software Installs (past 30 days):

    Install Date Name (Version)

    2019-02-15 Shazam (2.2.0)

    2019-02-21 Gatekeeper Configuration Data (163)

    2019-02-22 MRTConfigData (1.40)

    2019-03-06 Topaz Fusion Express 2 (2.0.1)

    2019-03-15 Adobe Acrobat Reader DC (19.010.20098) (19.010.20098)

    2019-03-16 Avast Security (12.9)

I will keep teamviewer and Chrome for now. I emptied trash.

Reran etracheck (33 minutes with nothing else running of significance on the system) and this time it is suggesting an impending failure of the drive as Babowa was suspecting. However, I don't see the supporting data why etracheck came to this conclusion. On this run the write speed was 282MB/s and the read 614 MB/s. If you see it please let me know.

I guess that the answer is pretty apparent at this point in that I need to replace the drive. It's about 5 years old. Also I don't want to wait until a system crash which would most likely happen at the worst time. Do you agree with disk drive replacement at this point? Also, if you happen to know, can one get a larger drive than the 3TB standard from Apple? I've not been able to find any reliable data on that matter.

Thanks!

Part 2

Drives:

    disk0 - APPLE SSD SD0128F 121.33 GB (Solid State - TRIM: Yes)

    Internal PCI 5.0 GT/s x2 Serial ATA

        disk0s1 - EFI (MS-DOS FAT32) [EFI] 210 MB

        disk0s2 [APFS Fusion Drive] 121.12 GB

            disk2 [APFS Virtual drive] 3.12 TB (Shared by 4 volumes)

                disk2s1 - Macintosh HD (APFS) (Shared - 2.15 TB used)

                disk2s2 - Preboot (APFS) [APFS Preboot] (Shared - 42 MB used)

                disk2s3 - Recovery (APFS) [Recovery] (Shared - 517 MB used)

                disk2s4 - VM (APFS) [APFS VM] (Shared - 3.22 GB used)

    disk1 - APPLE HDD ST3000DM001 3.00 TB (Mechanical - 7200 RPM)

    Internal SATA 6 Gigabit Serial ATA

        disk1s1 - EFI (MS-DOS FAT32) [EFI] 210 MB

        disk1s2 [APFS Fusion Drive] 3.00 TB

            disk2 [APFS Virtual drive] 3.12 TB (Shared by 4 volumes)

                disk2s1 - Macintosh HD (APFS) (Shared - 2.15 TB used)

                disk2s2 - Preboot (APFS) [APFS Preboot] (Shared - 42 MB used)

                disk2s3 - Recovery (APFS) [Recovery] (Shared - 517 MB used)

                disk2s4 - VM (APFS) [APFS VM] (Shared - 3.22 GB used)

    disk3 - Apple Built In SDXC Reader 31.91 GB

    Internal Secure Digital

        disk3s1 - N*****E (MS-DOS FAT32) 31.91 GB

Mounted Volumes:

    disk2s1 - Macintosh HD 3.12 TB (954.32 GB free)

        APFS

        Mount point: /

    disk2s4 - VM [APFS VM] (Shared - 3.22 GB used)

        APFS

        Mount point: /private/var/vm

    disk4s1 - E****************s 123 MB (115 MB free)

        Mac OS Extended

        Disk Image

        Mount point: /Volumes/E****************s

        Owners enabled: No

Network:

    Interface Bluetooth-Modem: Bluetooth DUN

    Interface en0: Ethernet

    Interface en6: iPad

    Interface en5: iPhone

    Interface en1: Wi-Fi

        802.11 a/b/g/n/ac

    Interface en4: Bluetooth PAN

    Interface bridge0: Thunderbolt Bridge

    iCloud Quota: 4.98 GB available

System Software:

    macOS Mojave 10.14.3 (18D109) 

    Time since boot: About a day

Notifications:

    ~/Downloads/DriveDx.app

        10 notifications

    /Applications/Utilities/Adobe Creative Cloud/ACC/Creative Cloud.app

        one notification

Security:

    Gatekeeper: Enabled

    System Integrity Protection: Enabled

    Antivirus apps: Avast

Thank you and macjack. Have posted EtreCheck results and have deinstalled Avast. Still unable to delete a number of apps as they don't show up in the applications folder and no apps have an 'x' when in launchpad and vibrating.