My iMac is now frequently freezing up....beachball syndrome! It seems to perform much better when I clear the cache, shut down and reboot. I backed up the cache and restarted the machine. It works fine. Is this something that can be done regularly? I've had a diagnostic run at the local Apple store and this is what the technician did to address the problem. There were no hardware issues found by the Apple technician in his diagnostic
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We can then look for obvious issues that may be causing your problem.
Also boot into Safe Mode and then reboot normally.
NOTE: Safe Mode boot can take up to 10 minutes as it's doing some system cache cleaning, volume verifying and directory repairing.
This makes sense...thanks
It appears your suggestion solves the freeze problem....many thanks
System Freezes
