Serious problems with Mac Pro amplified by upgrade to Catalina.

Grant Bennet-Alder,

Thank you for your help and reply.

I tried to post the report you requested but it wouldn't work using the additional text window below. I added the text and then pressed the button add text but, in addition to being extremely slow, it wouldn't do anything. I will try to add the text to a separate reply post.

Please let me know if I have done it right.

Thank you, again.

Grant Bennet-Alder,

I can't do it. The additional text box doesn't work. It nearly freezes and becomes very slow in responding. After I add the text and press the button 'Add Text' nothing happens.

I also tried to add the text as a reply but received a message stating I had exceeded the 5,000 word limit.

Important note: I was only able to add text to the reply box using Firefox. Safari wouldn't even allow me to do it.

Thank you again for your help.

Smokerz,

I have the following connected:

1. G-Technology G-Speed Shuttle XL 24 TB RAID Drive (Mode 0)
2. OWC Mercury Elite 12 TB software-based RAID drive (Mode 0)
3. OWC Mercury Elite 12 TB hardware-based RAID drive (Mode 0)
4. OWC Mini 4 TB SSD Raid (Mode 0)
5. LaCie 2Big 16TB External Drive
6. Pioneer BDR-XS07S Slot Loading Portable BD/DVD/CD Blu-Ray Writer drive

New Software I have installed as a consequence of the upgrade to Mac OS Catalina:

1. Microsoft Office for Mac 2019
2. EndNote X9 Research and Bibliography software
3. Roxio Toast 18 Titanium Media Suite and DVD/Blu-Ray burner app
4. Extensis Suitcase Fusion v. 20.0.7 font management software
5. Adobe's new Creative Cloud app
6. Adobe's Creative Suite 2019 apps (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Lightroom, etc...)

I hope this helps and thank you again for your help.

Just one important piece of information I wish to add:

I also own a MacBook Pro 17" (2010), a MacBook Pro 13" (Early 2015) and a Mac Mini (Late 2012) with an Apple 27" monitor. They are running the following operating systems:

1. MacBook Pro 17" (2010) - Mac OS 10.13.6 High Sierra
2. MacBook 13" (Early 2015) - Mac OS 10.15.1 Catalina
3. Mac Mini (late 2012) - Mac OS 10.15.1 Catalina.

All three computers above behave flawlessly and never freeze or crash. I run the same software on all of them. The problems are restricted to the Mac Pro.

Thank you.

Grant Bennet-Alder,

This is the only Kernel Panic Report I found inside the folder you referenced. It is the only file with an extension .panic. There are other files but none ending in .panic. I have added text from one of the reports in the folder.

Grant Bennet-Alder,

Thank you again for your help and for reviewing the information I posted.

Please help me understand this process. How and why did my computer produce this junk that appeared on the Kernel Panic report? What is wrong with my computer that is causing it to behave this way? All my other Macs don't have this problem so it is clear the problem is the Mac Pro. Is there anything I can do to solve this problem? My computer froze today more than 10 times and it is still early morning for me. I can't use it to do anything and it has become virtually useless.

What should I do?

Thank you in avance.

Grant Bennet-Alder and Guy Jenkins,

I checked my Mac Pro and my Boot Firmware version is the same as Guy's - 133.0.0.0.0. I am also running the very latest release of Mac OS Catalina which is 10.15.1.

Grant Bennet-Alder,

Thank you again for your help.

How do I run diagnostics from my Mac Pro? Do I run it with the Recovery OS with the startup key combinations Command-R or with the Apple Hardware Test startup key D (as in capital D letter)?

What do you think about running Etrecheck? I have been recommended Etrecheck as a third party diagnostics app that will issue a report with anything it finds wrong. Having said this the Panic Report appears to have been modified to the point that it is no longer reliable as a diagnostic tool. How will Etrecheck produce a proper report if the Mac Pro is no longer producing a good and accurate report?

Thank you in advance.

Guy Jenkins,

I am happy to read you have been able to reduce the issues you were experiencing and that your computer has improved. I am sad to say my computer hasn't improved. I am still experiencing freezes and crashes with unbelievable frequency and to the point that my Mac Pro has become literally useless. I can't use it for any type of work and particularly for any work that is critical. Again I repeat that I understand the point made earlier about the need to disconnect it from external devices including different external hard drives but the fact remains that of all Macintosh computers I own - and I own quite a few - the only one presenting these issues is the Mac Pro.

Smokerz,

The model is: Mac Pro (Late 2013)

Thank you.

Grant Bennet-Alder,

I have tried to isolate the first 100,000 characters or so in order to fit the limits of the 'additional text' function below. I hope it has worked.

Thank you again.