Mac slow in Catalina in only a few but crucial apps

Safari and EndNote and Mail app (sometimes certain functions in Acrobat DC Pro) tend to beachball for a while before performing a task (loading, etc). This seems to have coincided with Catalina, but I'm not totally sure. Is there any way to do some magic to rejuvenate the machine? I'll run repair permissions tonight for starters. tx

MacBook Pro 13", macOS 10.15

Posted on Dec 5, 2019 10:16 PM

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Yer_Man

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Dec 5, 2019 11:19 PM in response to jinet

Repairing permissions is voodoo and pointless, even if you can figure out how to do it in Catalina.

Try launch in Safe Mode and see if the problem persists.

How much Ram does your machine have?

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